Monthly Archives: March, 2018

Ross Douthat has a job that is, I would guess, either enviable or unpleasant, depending on the day—that of being the only regular conservative...

Although no author likes to have his book lumped with another, this book is an excellent complement to Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants.  Both...

As will surprise nobody who is paying any attention, I am preparing for war.  Why hide it?  Although only a fool or someone with...

Oh, but this is a fascinating book.  Written in 1930 by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, it is one of those books...

A friend of mine has been pushing me to look into Jordan Peterson for the past six months.  I thought, since my friend is...

As I continue to re-evaluate my take on the economics of the 20th century, Coase's work stands out as well as or better than...

To my surprise, I found this to be an extremely topical book, even though it discusses only people long dead.  It bridges, or at...

How to Die, compiled from various writings of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca by the excellent James Romm, assembles Seneca’s thoughts on death.  Seneca...

Cass Sunstein has gathered an ensemble cast of today’s intellectual Davoisie to tell us, in seventeen separate essays, whether Trump is the harbinger of...

As I so often complain, the quality of modern discourse is atrocious.  Probably this is due to everyone being told for decades that his...