Category Archives: Book reviews

Readers have been complaining about Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. The issue is that there’s no “there, there.” The author hasn’t really […]

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The second chapter of Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe is short. Much of it is re-warmed evolutionary biology, with a focus on […]

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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe starts rather quickly and succinctly out of the great. The author reviews the extant literature and folk […]

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So I’ve started reading the two books we selected: – Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War – Not Born […]

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Anyone who has read this weblog over the last few years has sensed my hopelessness and despair about the fallen world and in particular the American republic and Western civilization. I have told Rod Dreher many times privately that we irreligious also need our “Benedict option” in a “darkening world.” But while the Roman Empire […]

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On occasion I browse through books on Amazon with an eye for really good negative reviews. The other day I stumbled upon a really strange positive review of the awful fantasist David Bilsborough. It was confusing to me to see 4 out of 5 stars for this…

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Razib Khan