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Monthly Archives: February, 2018
Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power (Meghan O’Sullivan)
February 27, 2018
A few weeks ago, I watched a bad movie on Netflix—The Cloverfield Effect. This near-future science fiction film (distantly related to the original Cloverfield,...
The Judiciary’s Class War (Glenn Harlan Reynolds)
February 24, 2018
In this brief book, or rather pamphlet in the old political, Tom Paine-ish use of that term, law professor and well-known blogger Glenn Reynolds...
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror (Victor Sebestyen)
February 24, 2018
When we think of the Soviet Union, we mostly think of it as a fully realized totalitarian state. We think of Stalin, of World...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)
February 16, 2018
As with Steven Pinker’s earlier The Better Angels of Our Nature, of which this is really an expansion and elucidation, I was frustrated by...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
February 14, 2018
This is a forty-year-old biography that is as fresh today as it was in the 1970s. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the best-known...
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Robert Louis Wilken)
February 11, 2018
I think Robert Louis Wilken is fantastic, but this is the weakest book of his that I have read. It is not that it...
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World (Charles C. Mann)
February 9, 2018
This book addresses what is, as far as the material comforts of the modern age, the central question of our time—can mankind have it...
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why (Richard E. Nisbett)
February 7, 2018
This is a short book with a sweeping thesis. In essence, the thesis of The Geography of Thought is that many important cognitive processes dominant...