The Beautiful Tree is a book about what’s right with the world. Amazingly, what is right with the world is found in the slums of Nigeria, India, Kenya, China, and Zimbabwe. The poor educating themselves without government assistance is the name of the game. In the early 2000s author of The Beautiful Tree, James Tooley (a British […]
Review | The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
October 28, 2013 by
One of the most interesting books I’ve read in recent years was Niall Ferguson‘s Civilization: The West and the Rest, an examination of the extraordinary rise of Western Civilization relative to the rest of the world and the causes that seem to be at the root of its apparent decline. Ferguson’s newest book–The Great Degeneration: […]
Banned Book Week
September 27, 2013 by
This is Banned Book Week. Should books be banned? With no small amount of curiosity, I set out to discover what qualifies as a banned book. I was curious to see what books end up getting banned and somewhat surprised to find that books of a quality both high and low end up on that […]
Have you read 1984 lately? [Poll]
June 12, 2013 by
[Don’t forget to take the poll at the bottom and leave your comments if you’ve read the book] If they haven’t already, apparently, a lot of people will be reading George Orwell’s classic predictions about big government soon. In the wake of the NSA snooping–allegations of listening in on Verizon customers and the PRISM program […]
Review | Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly
June 10, 2013 by
Ward Connerly is a crusader, but a crusader who has picked a battle that matters. A black man born in the south but raised in the west, Connerly is a unique figure in the fight for equal rights against racial preferences. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, part autobiography and part political memoir, is […]
Review | Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
May 26, 2013 by
It took me a long time to begin to like Jon Meacham’s portrait of Thomas Jefferson in Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. As I finished it, however, I found myself a reluctant admirer, appreciative of Meacham’s style and of the biography, not to mention of the man. Meacham is the author of two previous books […]
Review | Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
May 16, 2013 by
There was a moment when reading Mitchell Zuckoff‘s latest book, Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, that I crossed over from a mildly interested reader to a rabid page turner. I’m pretty sure it was in the first chapter, if not the […]
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