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…
What’s the right dose of democracy?
If you haven't done so already, take the reader survey here! In medicine, there's the occasional discussion of the dose response function of some drug. People wisely assume that it…