Category: Book Recommendations
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A Review of Dome of the Hidden Pavilion, by James Tate.
Introduction: I was introduced to James Tate through a selection of the ‘best’ American poetry of 2016. The series now is not even worth the paper it is printed on due to their ‘inclusion’ of poems written by professors of English literature, generally understood to be the worst poetry writers, maybe right after postcolonial studies,…
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A Review of Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Introduction: Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian actress who starred in several movies and TV shows before switching to the stage. She wrote many novels and plays, of which the two most famous are Fall on Your Knees, and this one. This particular play caught my attention in 2014 because of its cover. I read it…
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A Review of Hating Whitey, by David Horowitz
“In the radical romance of our political lives, the world is said to have begun in innocence, but to have fallen afterwards under an evil spell afflicting the lives of all with great suffering and injustice. According to our myth, a happy ending beckoned, however. Through the efforts of progressives like us, the spell would…
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley
Introduction: Jason Riley’s biography of Thomas Sowell is more of an intellectual biography. Much of what could be found here is material one does not find in Sowell’s own autobiography, A Personal Odyssey (2000). The book covers his main intellectual achievements in the fields of the sociology of knowledge, his analysis of political dispositions and…
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Economics in an Austrian Lesson — A Review of Per Bylund’s ‘How to Think about the Economy.’
“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” Murray N. Rothbard. Economics, like physics,…
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A Brief Review of Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, by Thomas Sowell
One of Thomas Sowell’s earlier books, ‘Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?’ is a book about the Regression Fallacy. Simply put, this fallacy states that it is logically impermissible to claim that a change in the states of affairs X occurred because of a change in policy or behavior, Y. It is a derivative of the…
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A Brief Review of The Quest for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell
This is my second book by Thomas Sowell, and it is a treasure chest. I read it twice in the past, and now through Audible. It contains four short books (or four long essays) whose main themes are within the disciplines of political philosophy, sociology, history, and legal scholarship, but each chapter contains an element…