Stories By Bradley Kreit
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Risk Shift – by Jacob S. Hacker
August 8, 2024After winning reelection in 2004, President George W. Bush made restructuring Social Security his top domestic...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
August 5, 2024By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
August 4, 2024Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
October 22, 2023Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It – by Marcia Angell
October 15, 2023When AstraZeneca was on the verge of losing its patent to manufacture exclusively the $6 billion...
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Education
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
October 10, 2023Money dominates far greater a percentage of admissions than colleges—who are desperate to boost endowments to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
October 4, 2023But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters...