The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Society & Culture
On limitations of the franchise, and the role of women in the military, through the lens of a famous work of science fiction. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats, can be found here.)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
The Decadent Society: How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success (Ross Douthat)
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Robert Louis Wilken)
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World (Charles C. Mann)
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why (Richard E. Nisbett)
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)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The J. Burden Show
Judging Freedom
Exploring the National Parks
The Covert Narcissism Podcast
Greece Travel Secrets Podcast