Monthly Archives: July, 2022
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (John Michael Greer)
I am both pessimist and optimist about our future. I expect our civilization, that of the West, to end entirely, and soon. Yet at...
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya)
This is a disappointing book. Not awful, but not good. The Man from the Future manages to take the life of the polymath John...
Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Herbert S. Terrace)
When I was growing up in the 1980s, a staple belief of socially-correct thinking was that many non-human animals, not only apes but also...
On Manual Work for Men
Those who rule us seek to stamp out masculinity. Over the pastseveral decades their attacks have been wildly successful, as a glance around you...
The Children of Men (P. D. James)
A constant complaint of today’s Right is that our civilization has been ruined politically and spiritually by decades of Left dominance. But we pay...
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Ben Westhoff)
Fentanyl, Inc. updates Sam Quinones’s seminal 2015 Dreamland, about the American opioid epidemic, focusing on the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the use of which has...