Showing posts with label republicans are evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label republicans are evil. Show all posts
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Review: Democracy Awakening

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 Democracy Awakening is Heather Cox Richardson's history book with an emphasis on recent history (from 2016 to 2022) and a deep perspec...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Review: American Prometheus

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 American Prometheus is the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and apparently the inspiration for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie. I ...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

Review: The Righteous Mind

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 The Righteous Mind is divided into 3 parts. The first two are at the very least enlightening and gives you plenty to think about, and the ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Review: What We Owe The Future

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 When I first heard about What We Owe The Future , I thought that longtermism would be easy to explain and the book wouldn't have much t...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Review: Politics is for Power

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 Politics is for Power is an indictment of something I've been guilty of: treating politics the way sports fans treat sports, reading a...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Review: Dying of Whiteness

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 Dying of Whiteness is a difficult book to read. At a deep level, it's about the recent reversal of life expectancy  in the white worki...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Review: Paradise Falls

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Paradise Falls is a book about a section of the town of Niagara Falls known as Love Canal. It was the site of chemical dumping by the Hooke...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Review: A Natural History of the Future

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 A Natural History of The Future is an ecologist's view of the world, and it's the best introduction to ecological thinking that I...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Review: How Democracies Die

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 How Democracies Die was published in January 2018, two years before the January 6th, 2020 insurrection. I mention this because if you read...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Review: Premonition

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 In the opening to Premonition , Michael Lewis claims that he wrote the book intending to find malfeasance behind Trump, but discovered that...
Thursday, July 08, 2021

Review: The Sum of Us

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 The Sum of Us  has a pretty non-controversial thesis - that the world we live in is not a zero-sum world, that when we introduce benefits l...
Monday, June 07, 2021

Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

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 Deaths of Despair has a simple, unique thesis. The thesis is that the cost of healthcare and private health insurance has gotten so high t...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Review: March Trilogy

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 March: Trilogy is the story of the Civil Rights  movement as told by the late John Lewis. I've already read about much of this in Mast...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Review: The Nordic Theory of Everything - In Search of a Better Life

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 The Nordic Theory of Everything is Anu Partanen's personal journal of her transition to the USA from Finland. It's a good example ...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Reread: Cosmos

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 I checked out Cosmos from the library in the hopes of reading it to Bowen. To say that the book and the TV series was influential in my lif...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Review: The Hype Machine

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 I read The Hype Machine hoping to find some answers about social media and how it was used to destroy democracy. I did learn a few things,...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Review: The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes

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 I picked up The Price of Peace thinking it was a biography of Keynes, the economist and scholar, but I got something much better, which wa...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Review: Post-Truth

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 Mike Sojka recommended Post-Truth as a quick short read that explains the Trump era. It is indeed a quick read and covers many topics of ...