Daniel Wahl's Articles
Good Living, Reviews
The Cloudspotter’s Guide, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Daniel Wahl September 4, 2015
Daniel Wahl reviews The Cloudspotter’s Guide, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
History, Reviews, Science & Technology
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
Daniel Wahl September 3, 2015
Daniel Wahl reviews The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
Education & Parenting, Good Living
A Dozen Great Books for Young Children
Daniel Wahl September 3, 2015
A stroll through some of the best children’s books in print and a few out of print. If you have young children or know anyone who does, this is a gold mine.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Story of Art, by E. H. Gombrich
Daniel Wahl May 21, 2015
A review of E. H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, by Anthony Ryder
Daniel Wahl May 21, 2015
A review of Anthony Ryder’s The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing.
Economics, Reviews
Stuff Matters, by Mark Miodownik
Daniel Wahl February 20, 2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Modern World, by Mark Miodownik. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 272 pp. $16.45 (hardcover). Reviewed by Daniel Wahl In May 1985, a young Mark Miodownik sat on a train, with a fresh thirteen-centimeter stab wound in his back, and thought…
Arts & Culture
A Screenplay Jihadists will Hate and Civilized People will Love
Daniel Wahl December 30, 2014
Set in Chicago during the holiday season, Quent Cordair's screenplay Mujahid involves a conflict between Husam, a young Muslim man who takes Islam seriously, and his younger brother Jasim. The conflict escalates after Husam is handed a heavy bag by a bearded man and gets on a bus heading downtown.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Rape of the Masters, by Roger Kimball
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2014
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, by Roger Kimball. New York: Encounter Books, 2005. 200 pp. $17.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Daniel Wahl Roger Kimball begins The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by asking why we teach and study art history. “It is…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
The Dictionary of Human Form, by Ted Seth Jacobs
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2014
The Dictionary of Human Form, by Ted Seth Jacobs. Santa Fe: Mariposa Press, 2011. 819 pp. $150. Reviewed by Daniel Wahl Ted Seth Jacobs painted The Open Window—one of the most beautiful paintings of the twentieth century. He taught Jacob Collins and Tony Ryder—two of the realist movement’s most influential…
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Philosophy
Jason Brennan Joins the Brigade of People Misrepresenting Ayn Rand’s Views
Daniel Wahl July 23, 2014
Every so often, people hostile to Ayn Rand’s ideas try to attack them by saying that Rand said or implied something she never said or implied and then attacking that thing she never said or implied. Given that Rand’s actual views are so readily available, it’s baffling that her detractors wantonly make this stuff up.
Education & Parenting
Interview with Keith Schacht, Co-Founder of Mystery Science
Daniel Wahl July 17, 2014
Children need to learn science for the same reason they need to learn the other core subjects: to prepare them for life; to prepare them to achieve their values and be happy. Science education, as well as education in the other core subjects, prepares children by developing their ability to think.
Good Living, Reviews
So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport
Daniel Wahl May 20, 2014
Daniel Wahl reviews So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport.
Good Living, Reviews
Seven Pleasures, by Willard Spiegelman
Daniel Wahl May 20, 2014
Daniel Wahl reviews Seven Pleasures, by Willard Spiegelman.
Education & Parenting, Reviews
Review: The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith
Daniel Wahl November 20, 2013
Daniel Wahl reviews The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith.
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Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2013
Daniel Wahl reviews The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander.