The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

Peerless NeverTrumper Jonah Goldberg instructs us how to view the world. (The written version of this review was first published May 2, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Of Men of Destiny, and of the protean Alcibiades, man of glory and contradiction, and of what his life says to us today. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

I am skeptical of the art of predicting the future based on the past, but Peter Turchin offers a compelling theory in this 2016 book—including predicting that 2020 will be a very bad year. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

Thoughts on a misleading and mendacious book that has been used to propagandize generations of schoolchildren. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

This book explains a great deal this is otherwise opaque, and shows why the propaganda we are fed about value, GDP and the like, is propaganda, that blinds us to the reality of our economy. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

Václav Havel's famous essay, born of a specific time and place, resonates decades later in our own proto-totalitarian society. What should be done? Havel tells us. (The written version of this review was first published May 18, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

I thought this book was be good; I was wrong. Free market fundamentalism is bad, to be sure, but what Karl Polanyi offers isn't better, and his analysis is dated. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

John Carreyrou's Bad Blood is unbelievably good. No recap of the book, though: rather thoughts on every on at Theranos behaving badly, including, especially, the lawyers. And my take on why Elizabeth Holmes was able to do what she did. Also why autonomous cars are BS. (The written version of this review was first published September 25, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are availabl...

An examination of a fascinating work on the settlement of Polynesia, with a focus on human accomplishment. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

On how conservatives hobble themselves with preemptive apologies that have been conditioned into them by the Left. (The written version of this review was first published September 19, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  can be found here .)

Just in time to explain the inevitable Left reaction to Boris Johnson's triumph, an analysis of the Left's hatred of actual democracy. (The written version of this review was first published September 25, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

A turn (mostly) away from current politics, to speak of eternal things. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

The beginnings, through discussion tied to this mediocre book, of an attempt to understand the creation of value in society. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

Yet another classic work that is, unfortunately, just as relevant today. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

Some thoughts on how liberals view the world, derived in part from the New York Times's podcast, “The Argument.” (The written version of this review was first published November 4, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Read and reviewed Tim Wu's important new book on the effects of, and solutions for, economic concentration. Something both conservatives and liberals can get behind. Up the NeoBrandeisianism! (The written version of this review was first published November 18, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Thoughts on a long-dead king and his early-twentieth-century booster, Ernst Kantorowicz. I include a call for caesaropapist correction of Pope Francis, as well! (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

A dense, but very worthwhile, set of ruminations not on our age of digital distraction, but on how the Enlightenment destroyed our connection to the real. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

The history and inevitability of economic inequality, with thoughts on whether and in what circumstances it's bad, from me, not the author. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)

Thoughts on an often-misunderstood book, José Ortega y Gasset's classic The Revolt of the Masses. (The written version of this review was first published March 24, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Thoughts on Daymond John's excellent "Rise And Grind," and on how you can be rich like me. (The written version of this review was first published April 30, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Reviewed John Farrell's biography of Richard Nixon, which brings the man back to life, and shows us the parallels between him and Donald Trump, or at least between the Left's treatment of both. (The written version of this review was first published April 26, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Thoughts on Martin Mosebach's The 21, exploring the best known, but far from only, Coptic martyrs, whose deaths, of course, are only part of a larger pattern displayed daily. (The written version of this review was first published April 23, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Thoughts on Quillette, ally in the wars to come.  (The written version of this review was first published April 20, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats,  are available here .)

Rusty Reno's new book is good enough, but too narrow in its vision, even cramped.  (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats,  can be found here .)