There is Nothing for You Here: Book Review
There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century (2021), Fiona Hill. Hill became a senior director of the NSA in...
How Europe Made the Modern World: Book Review
How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence (2019), Jonathan Daly. The Great Divergence has two parts according to...
Thinking Inside a Bigger Box
Paul Krugman indicated that global trade was facilitated by bigger boxes—shipping containers. Their use meant considerably lower costs...
We Want to Lose! We Want to Lose!
Democrats are in charge in Washington and seem to crash and burn in terms of getting things done, like the infrastructure bills. Biden’s...
Peril: Book Review
Peril (2021), Woodward and Costa; Woodward seems to know everyone in Washington and get them on the record. This story tells the end of...
Noise: Book Review
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021), Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. Several books on decision making and...
Age of Discord: Book Review
Age of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (2016), Peter Turchin; an interesting time series macro analysis of...
Democrats and Republicans: A New MVG Look
A new Pew Poll (see New York Times June 29, 2021) broke out survey responses relative to which party they align with. Some of the...
The Plague Year: Book Review
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (2021), Lawrence Wright. Granted, there will be dozens of books written about the pandemic,...
Deaths of Desire: Book Review
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (2020), Anne Case and Angus Deaton. A “downer” book stressing specific American problems...
The Premonition: Book Review
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021), Michael Lewis; another key book from a unique perspective by a fantastic writer. The book tells...
The Bomber Mafia: Book Review
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021), Malcolm Gladwell. I read every book that...
Is Biden Too Progressive for MVG?
Biden was considered a moderate when he ran for president; also an old guy with lots of experience. By a 100 days in office a couple of...
The Code Breaker: Book Review
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and The Future of the Human Race (2021), Walter Isaacson. This was a great book,...
Land: Book Review
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (2021), Simon Winchester. A series of diverse essays that have something to do...