Recommendations The Widow’s Strike SimonApril 4, 20200 Since many of you are sheltering at home and are already giving up on reading Thackeray or Adam Smith I'd like to...
Recommendations Gourmet Plastic SimonMarch 3, 20201 Processed food is one of the inventions mentioned in the book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by...
Recommendations A Tale of Two Toilets SimonJanuary 17, 20200 Our condo came with an electric toilet. See the top photo. It was a beautiful idea but it was unreliable and...
Recommendations W.E.B. Du Bois SimonOctober 3, 20190 Nostalgic reprint from October 2009 I just finished reading “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois. It...
Recommendations Book Read: The Opium War SimonSeptember 25, 20190 The Opium War By Julia Lovell The first half of this book is an excellent telling of the details of the Opium War...
Recommendations Book Read: The Big Rock Candy Mountain SimonSeptember 18, 20190 The Big Rock Candy Mountain By Wallace Stegner Stegner's prose are beautiful. He paints word pictures that are so...
Politics Book Read: Enlightenment Now SimonSeptember 11, 20190 Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker This is one of my favorite books from this summers reading. Pinker sees the flow...
Recommendations Book Read: Between Two Scorpions SimonAugust 26, 20190 Between Two Scorpions by Jim Geraghty I know Jim Geraghty as a columnist for National Review. It turns out that he is...
Recommendations Book Read: The Guns at Last Light SimonAugust 19, 20190 The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson I read this book to prepare for my walking tour of Normandy. And I was...
Recommendations Book Read: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist SimonAugust 12, 20190 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman It is rare that a literate man is sent to prison for a long time...