Book review: The Revolutionary Phenotype
Over the years, the enthusiastic fans of Jean Francois Gariepy (JFG) have been trying to goad me into reading his book. I had avoided it because people I trust say…
2023 in books
It's a new year, and therefore time to look back at what I read in 2023 in terms of books. Let's start out with the overview. Here's an ultra short…
Supreme Court, Supreme Issues
I have long been annoyed by how the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seemed to work, so I decided to look more into this by reading a short textbook on the…
Why woke? What to do about it?
I am a little late to the party, but I too want to post my reviews of 2 recently high grade books on the woke phenomenon and what to do…
On Paul Bloom’s Psych (2023)
Psychology is a popular field, so there's quite a big market for introductory textbooks. I occasionally read these just to see how authors are introducing and treating various topics. In…
Is the past the future?
Edward Dutton (AKA. Jolly Heretic) and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles has a new book out: The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (2022). The summary is: Since the…
Book review: A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause
I read this book the other day and it's worth reviewing in some detail. Krause, J., & Trappe, T. (2022). A short history of humanity: A new history of old…
The EA case for (German) colonialism
Back in 2017, Bruce Gilley published this article: Gilley, B. (2017). The case for colonialism. Third World Quarterly, 38(10), 1. For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a…
2022 in books
As per usual, a brief recap of what I read in 2022. You could consider this my personal notes, or mini-brook reviews á la Bryan Caplan's recent post. Visually, looks…
The thick end of The Bell Curve
Adrian Wooldridge is currently popular with his book The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (2021). I read the book a while ago, but forgot to do…
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