The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Society & Culture
Reviewed Jonathan Tepper's nicely done entry in the pro-competition genre, (The written version of this review was first published February 27, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)
Why Liberalism Failed (Patrick J. Deneen)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (Jonah Goldberg)
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens (David Stuttard)
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (Peter Turchin)
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Frederick Lewis Allen)
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Mariana Mazzucato)
The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Karl Polanyi)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Christina Thompson)
On Preemptive Apologies by Conservatives
How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt)
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life (Nicolas Diat)
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (David Graeber)
The Captive Mind (Czeslaw Milosz)
On the Subjective Mental State of Liberals
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Tim Wu)
Frederick the Second: Wonder of the World 1194-1250 (Ernst Kantorowicz)
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Matthew B. Crawford)
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