Read Ted, White, & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto. You will not agree with everything, some or lot of it might even infuriate you, but you not regret the time spent. If you […]
Mini book reviews
This is mostly catch up…I’m spending my free time getting ready for a talk on the 15th… A History of the Vikings Gwyn Jones Oxford University Press Recommendation: read If it wasn’t […]
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so would likely […]
Closing Time, by Joe Queenan
Closing Time: A memoir by Joe Queenan Viking Recommendation: Borrow from a library if you’re going fishing and think you won’t be catching much. Joe Queenan’s dad was a self-defeating drunk who […]
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part I
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg Recommendation: Buy one copy for yourself, another for mother. If Sally is over six feet tall and Bill is over six feet […]
Real Education by Charles Murray
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray Recommendation: read (buy here). The word median is statistical: it is the point at which 50% of […]
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