Whither Writing (A Ten-Year Retrospective)
Is there some deeper meaning to the traffic cone on Sherlock's head? Or is it just silly vandalism? Most people seemed to think it was the l...
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We Are Not Saved discusses religion, politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
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The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science
This was my entry to the 2026 ACX Book Review Contest. Given that it was, sadly, judged inadequate to the high standards of the ACX readersh...
Let Him Have Thy Legos Also - [Essay]
I. If you don't live in Utah, you may not have heard that the Great Salt Lake is in trouble. It's been rapidly dwindling in size and depth,...
The Desecration of Man - Say No to Nietzsche
The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity By: Carl R. Trueman Published: 2026 256 Pages Briefly, what is this b...
Four Books on the End (Or at Least the Plateauing) of Civilization
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by: Eric H. Cline 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed by: Eric H. Cli...
Do Not Go Gentle - State Provided Death is Incoherent
Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death By: Kathleen Stock Published: 2026 304 pages Briefly, what is this book about? The general...
Annihilation – A (Very French) Biography of the "Last Man"
Annihilation: A Novel By: Michel Houellebecq Translated by: Shaun Whiteside Published: 2022 (English translation 2024) 544 Pages Briefly, wh...
Picky How Modernity Completely Screwed Up (Part LXVII)
Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History By: Helen Zoe Veit Published: 2026 304 Pages Briefly, what is this book a...
Last Branch Standing - Honey Badger References and Case Analysis
Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court By: Sarah Isgur Published: 2026 416...
Four Short Classics for the Lazy Pseudo-Intellectual
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by: Jerome K. Jerome Something to Do with Paying Attention by: David Foster Wallace The Leop...
Against the Machine - Steelmanning Modern Luddism
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity By: Paul Kingsnorth Published: 2025 368 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? Before King...
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - More Palestinian Sadness
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy By: Nathan Thrall Published: 2023 272 Pages Briefly, what is this book abou...
Plagues upon the Earth - You're Not Sufficiently Horrified
Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History By: Kyle Harper Published: 2021 704 Pages Briefly, what is this book about?...
Phenomena - Why Must It Always Be a Spoon?
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis By: Annie Jacobsen Publ...
Four Books of Speculative Fiction About Christian Damnation
Black Easter by: James Blish The Day After Judgment by: James Blish Into the Storm by: Larry Correia A Prisoner's Cinema by: Justin Lee
Unshrunk - Medication, Red in Tooth and Claw
Delano is very much an example of something being wrong with psychiatry, the question is how emblematic is her experience? Unshrunk: A Story...
Three Books About Roman Stoicism or Lack Thereof
The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by: Ryan Holiday The Enchiridion...
Grand Strategy In Life [Essay] (w: review of 33 Strategies of War)
There's a concept within statecraft known as grand strategy. The "grand" strategy means paying attention to every avenue of conflict, not ju...
Meta-Competition and the Downfall of Civilization [Essay]
Or how America went from the platonic ideal of goal-scoring to the messy theatricality of flopping. And whether we can stop it before someon...
Eugenics and Other Evils - Chesterton Was Right Everyone Else Was Wrong
Eugenics and Other Evils By: G. K. Chesterton Published: 1922 188 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? Once this book entered the public...