SERVILE STATE, THE by Hilaire Belloc My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book, which was in different measures confused and insightful. The difficulty is that when it was insightful, he would use his own peculiar definitions of terms (e.g. capitalism), and when it was confused, he would apply critiques to socialism that …
Review: We Would See Jesus: Discovering God’s Provision for You in Christ
We Would See Jesus: Discovering God’s Provision for You in Christ by Roy Hession My rating: 4 of 5 stars A classic book of evangelical piety, and very good. I may have read it decades ago, but am glad I read it (again, perhaps) now. View all my reviews
Review: French Leave
French Leave by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Standard Wodehouse, and lots of fun. View all my reviews
Review: ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback
ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback by Mark Rutland My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book that the NSA board is reading together. One of the best leadership books I have ever read. View all my reviews
Review: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great information here on the current state of brain science with regard to the differences between boys and girls. Some fascinating stuff here. At the same time, Dr. Sax …
Review: Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the books I put on my “bucket book” list — books that I really ought to have read by this time in my life but, though my own miserable failings, had not. Any how, I finally got this one done. This …
Book of the Month/June 2015
I bought this book, By the People, on the strength of the subtitle, which was “Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.” Having read it, I want to tell you some of the wonderful things about it, and then talk about a face plant that Murray accomplishes in the last few pages. That face plant is a function …
Review: How Civilizations Die:
How Civilizations Die: by David Paul Goldman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a book with a lot of surprises, a lot of twists and turns. Goldman makes some questionable assertions here, but this was one of the most fruitful and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time. View all my …
Review: Death Comes to Pemberley
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James My rating: 3 of 5 stars Enough fun to finish it, but definitely not Austen. At the same time, P.D. James was able to fill in the back story of this book in such a way as to provide some of her commentary on what was going on …
Review: Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War
Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro My rating: 4 of 5 stars A good read, and very informative. Pinheiro shows the important role that religion (Protestant/Catholic) played in the Mexican-American War. A lot of careful detail here recording how Americans of all political stripes thought religiously in …