Monthly Archives: September, 2017
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise (Darío Fernández-Morera)
This book is ferociously erudite, but tinged with obsession. True, nearly all modern academic and popular mention of Muslim Spain endorses an easily disproved...
Makers and Takers (Rana Foroohar)
Imprisoned inside this book is a good book screaming to get out. Buried alive, like the Man in the Iron Mask, this Hidden Book...
The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner)
Jon Gertner’s The Idea Factory is a mild corrective to the commonly found anguished certainty that America’s days of innovative scientific greatness are behind...
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Franklin Foer)
Franklin Foer’s World Without Mind is an excellent book. It identifies important problems, ties the problems to their historical precedents, and suggests some reasonable...
The English and Their History (Robert Tombs)
This book is a massive history of the English, written by an English expert on France, Robert Tombs. Somehow, against the odds, it manages...
The Strange Death of Europe (Douglas Murray)
Mass immigration to Europe is one of those topics about which there is little mainstream discussion, both in the United States and even more...
The Earth Is Weeping (Peter Cozzens)
The Earth Is Weeping offers an almost painfully even-handed look at the conflicts between the United States and American Indian tribes after the Civil...