
Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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Fiction Reviews
Mike Carey: Novelist and Comic Writer
February 13, 2025"People too content with their lot make lousy protagonists. (laughs) There has to be a source...
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Historical Fiction
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
February 12, 2025Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Fiction Reviews
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
February 12, 2025Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that...
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Fiction Reviews
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
February 10, 2025The novel is set in the lake country of northern Minnesota and the wilds of bordering...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
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Germany
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
February 10, 2025He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
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Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
February 10, 2025These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
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Biography
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
February 10, 2025"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
February 10, 2025"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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Guest Posts
5 Amazing Things You Need To Know About 3D Modeling With Maya
February 9, 20253D Modeling With Maya what you need to know. Maya by Autodesk is one of the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
February 9, 2025Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
February 9, 2025Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
February 9, 2025I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
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Humor
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
February 8, 2025One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
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Fiction Reviews
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
February 8, 2025The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
February 8, 2025"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
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Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
February 8, 2025The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
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Caribbean
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
February 14, 2025This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
January 24, 2025In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
February 10, 2025"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
January 23, 2025What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Movies
Family Values
January 31, 2025Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Biography
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
February 5, 2025In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967
January 23, 2025In Lieutenant Morris’ words, “We moved into the woods and within minutes all hell broke loose.”...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
January 27, 2025Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
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