I decided to review all books I read, which also serves as a motivator for making notes when reading (actually, I only highlight text and memory is usually enough reconstruct…
We continue the January book reviews. I had initially wanted to put them all in one post, but that would have been obscenely long given my notes. So we move…
I tend to write 2 types of book reviews: 1) full length singular posts, and 2) short summaries for many books by year's end. The trouble with the second approach…
I was busy attending a wedding this weekend, so there were no posts. In the mean time, Lipton Matthews (X profile, Substack, Aporia articles) asked if he could write a…
I've been reading through some old papers and stumbled across an exchange between journalist Walter Lippmann and Lewis Terman in 1922 (original). Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to convert my…
Today marks the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion and occupation of Denmark (9th April 1940-5th May 1945). Denmark wasn't originally a member of the allied forces, but was a…
My book review of Michael Ryan's book briefly covered this topic but due to popular interest, here is a full post. Famously, there was a genocide in Rwanda in the…
The book is described as: In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that…
In Western countries there is a broad sentiment that one cannot really just expel a bunch of foreigners. Sometimes, this is just a legal claim that this would not currently…
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…