How to Know a Person: Book Review
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, 2023, David Brooks. Part I: I See You. Chapter 1: The Power...
American Psychosis: Book Review
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy, David Corn, 2022. America has a long history of...
Going Infinite: Book Review
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis, 2023. I finished this book just at the time Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was...
Elon Musk: Book Review
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson (2023). This is the biography of Musk, once the richest person in the world and the creator of Tesla, SpaceX,...
The Dawn of Innovation: Book Review
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution, Charles Morris, 2012. Introduction: Beginning in the 1820s, there was a...
The Delusions of Crowds: Book Review
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups, William J. Bernstein (2021). Lot of examples. I’m interested in the psychological...
The World That Trade Created: Book Review
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik (2013)....
The Birth of Plenty: Book Review
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created (2004), William Bernstein. Interesting analysis of what can be...
Knowing What We Know: Book Review
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, Simon Winchester (2023). A broad brush about...
Silent Spring Revolution: Book Review
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022),...
Philosophy: Book Review
Philosophy: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject (Peter Gibson). Organized by topic rather than period of specific...
A History of the World in 6 Glasses: Book Review
A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (2005), specifically on beer, wine, rum (plus whiskey and other similar alcohol),...
Walden: Book Review
Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854, 2019 edition). I have a mountain of books to read, so I reread Walden. Granted, it’s a...
How Propaganda Works: Book Review
How Propaganda Works (2015), Jason Stanley. This seems a timely topic, to be told by a philosopher with experience. It is academic,...
Prevarication Versus Lying
Mike Pence just published his autobiography So Help Me God and been on every talk show around. He proved to be the master of...