Category: Book reviews
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Week 3, Gene Expression book club
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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Week 2, Gene Expression book club
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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Week 1, Gene Expression book club
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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Gene Expression Book Club – it’s off!
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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Let’s read!
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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Harriet Klausner, a one woman content-mill!
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…