The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Society & Culture
From 2018, through the lens of a classic work of applied politics, thoughts on coups (which have not happened, nor did I predict them), and on social media's role in enforcing global rule of the Left (which I did predict, and which has most definitely happened). (The written version of this review was first published August 27, 2018. Written versions are available here.)
Great Society: A New History (Amity Shlaes)
The Middle Ages (Johannes Fried)
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (G. W. Bowersock)
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Niall Ferguson)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Joseph A. Tainter)
The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era (Clyde Prestowitz)
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (Christopher Caldwell)
Age of Fracture (Daniel T. Rodgers)
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Graham Allison)
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (Mark Lilla)
Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall (Anna Funder)
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Laura Spinney)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America (Hannah Nordhaus)
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades (Roger Crowley)
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)
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