Reviews
Arts & Culture, Reviews
A Saturnalia of Bunk: Selections from The Free Lance 1911–1915 by H. L. Mencken
Jeffrey Falk January 24, 2019
Pro-reason, pro-liberty readers likely will find A Saturnalia of Bunk enlightening and entertaining.
Good Living, Reviews, Science & Technology
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Jonathan Townley December 29, 2018
After reading Clear’s blog for years, I expected Atomic Habits to be quite useful. But, I was astonished by how useful it is.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Philosophy, Reviews
The Illusion of Determinism: Why Free Will Is Real and Causal by Edwin A. Locke
Jeffrey Falk December 19, 2018
This book shows that determinists are free to go on questioning the reality of human volition but not free to escape the contradiction inherent in that act.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers
Anna Franco December 14, 2018
Anyone interested in the the nature of dictatorship, the virtue of justice, or the power of persistence will find this book an extraordinary value.
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews, Science & Technology
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
Michael Dahlen October 25, 2018
Ammous places Bitcoin in a broad historical context and makes a good case that it has the potential to be the next stage in the evolution of sound money.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Elan Journo
Julian Hook October 18, 2018
What Justice Demands is a passionate affirmation of the sanctity of liberty that provides much-needed clarity on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Reviews, Science & Technology
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Jon Hersey September 27, 2018
In Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Dutch-American primatologist Frans de Waal brings history, philosophy, and science to bear on this pregnant question.
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews
Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart
Brian Tebbitt September 20, 2018
Well-read intellectuals, Greek philosophy, and atheism are what made America great. So says Matthew Stewart.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris
Anna Franco September 19, 2018
This riveting fictionalization of a 19th-century French espionage case illustrates the relation between rationality, integrity, and justice.
Reviews, Science & Technology
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre
Jon Hersey September 10, 2018
Goldacre outs many of the most heinous sources of misleading health-related claims and provides tools to understand and evaluate them.