Resource and Civilization Sustainability
The pandemic and political upheavals demonstrate how brittle our culture and economy are. This is not unusual in the history of humans....
Think Again: Book Review
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (2021), Adam Grant. This is another useful book from psychology; this time about...
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future: Book Review
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021), Elizabeth Kolbert, the author of The Sixth Extinction writing about human’s attempt...
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: Book Review
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal (2021), Mark Bittman, a unique food history focusing on the shift...
Homo deus: Book Review
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), Harari, another provocative Harari book, with things to contemplate, reconsider, expand my...
Trump's Superpowers: Destroying Truth, Careers and Reputations
Millions of employees were on the Trump team beginning in 2017, whether they liked it or not. He appointed a couple of thousand, by...
What Does the Future of Washington Politics Look Like?
Chuck Todd on Meet the Press (January 24, 2021) presented an interesting poll, dividing the political parties into four camps: Trump...
Clown Coup
The attack on Congress on January 6 was horrifying; the pathetic defense caused anger. The Capital police actually there acted mainly...
The Tyranny of Merit: Book Review
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? (2020), Michael Sandel. I was impressed by Sandel’s earlier book, Justice. In...
Building Blinders
I blogged about “The Blinders Hypothesis” in 2018 (September 19), what I considered a reasonable summation for much of irrational...
Joe Biden: Book Review
Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now (2020), Evan Osnos. Having just finished Obama’s first volume of his memoirs and the...
The Promised Land: Book Review
The Promised Land (2020), Barack Obama, the long-awaited first volume of his memoir. He briefly reviews his life, especially his...
Trust and Honesty
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely (I have earlier posts on his books) was on TV talking about trust and honesty. Trust is assuming someone...
Finally, Median Voter Guy Can Celebrate
As stated in the Washington Post: "Richard III out, Atticus Finch in." Joe Biden is a real moderate, with long experience working with...
Win Bigly: Book Review
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter (2017), Scott Adams: the creator of Dilbert. In Rage Woodward explained that...