Monthly Archives: May, 2019
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Brian A. Catlos)
I read this book, about the history of Spain under Muslim rule, hoping it would be less biased than Darío Fernández-Morera’s The Myth of...
A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe!, they cried. Hans-Hermann Hoppe! They told me that if I read his books, it would change my life. This is not the...
Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts (Alexander Langlands)
Man’s search for meaning is, in these days of alienation and anomie, always a topic that can generate interest. Meaning at its most concrete...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
Sapiens is a book of history, but its main thrust is philosophical. It explores, or tries to explore, the conundrum that if man is...