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Binge Reading Factfulness

SimonApril 7, 20200

I just finished binge reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Even conceding that for me a lot of it is confirmation...

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...

SimonMarch 3, 20201

Processed food is one of the inventions mentioned in the book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by...

SimonJanuary 17, 20200

Our condo came with an electric toilet. See the top photo. It was a beautiful idea but it was unreliable and...

SimonOctober 3, 20190

Nostalgic reprint from October 2009 I just finished reading “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois. It...

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...

SimonSeptember 18, 20190

The Big Rock Candy Mountain By Wallace Stegner Stegner's prose are beautiful. He paints word pictures that are so...

Politics

SimonSeptember 11, 20190

Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker This is one of my favorite books from this summers reading. Pinker sees the flow...

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...

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