Monthly Archives: January, 2020
The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America (Hannah Nordhaus)
As befits one who seeks to be a man of wealth and taste (if I have to choose between them, the former), I aspire...
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades (Roger Crowley)
I often say that the Crusades were a high point of Western civilization. And they were, but they were also an example of flawed...
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens (David Stuttard)
We live in an age lacking dynamic leadership. We are instead led, if one can call it that, by men who are clowns, feminized,...
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (Peter Turchin)
I am skeptical of those who predict the future by looking at the past. It’s not that history follows a random walk, like the...
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Frederick Lewis Allen)
Much modern popular history is mendacious, written with an ideological agenda that deliberately distorts, or omits, or simply lies about, the truth. Sometimes, therefore,...
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Mariana Mazzucato)
I have long known in my gut that usual measures of social wealth, most of all GDP, are fraudulent, in that they falsely identify...