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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...
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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.

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: 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: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy By: Nathan Thrall Published: 2023 272 Pages Briefly, what is this book abou...

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: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis By: Annie Jacobsen Publ...

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

Delano is very much an example of something being wrong with psychiatry, the question is how emblematic is her experience? Unshrunk: A Story...

The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by: Ryan Holiday The Enchiridion...

There's a concept within statecraft known as grand strategy. The "grand" strategy means paying attention to every avenue of conflict, not ju...

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 By: G. K. Chesterton Published: 1922 188 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? Once this book entered the public...

1- Operation Overflight By: Francis Gary Powers and Curt Gentry Published: 1970 384 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? An autobiographi...

Come for the unreplicatable science, stay for the promise of a planetary heart beating out peace for a thousand years. The HeartMath Solutio...

A book full of potential comparisons to our own day for the motivated, and strangely removed from our own day if you're really going to be h...

Policy proposals from the White Queen. (It's a Lewis Carroll reference. No, I'm not talking about the Mad Hatter or the Red Queen. It's from...

One part documentation of a strange AI hallucination. One part panic about whether I'll be put out of business by AI.

Using the Stone of Democracy to Slay the Goliath of Inequality Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse By: Luke Kemp Pu...

I was promised useful stories to assist me in a quest for justified belief. Instead I got a lesson in the limits of expertise. Unfortunately...

The Westmark Trilogy by: Lloyd Alexander RoadKill by: Dennis E. Taylor Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped S...

Would you like some genetics in your politics? The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations – Social Disinte...

I feel like I should make some clever connection between this book and the discussion which raged about the Shroud of Turin, but nothing occ...

In which I mostly talk about the Shroud of Turin. Murray only spends seven pages on the it, so my review is not comprehensive. Actually, nev...

Back when Rome was just one Italian settlement out of many, but a settlement with a dream! Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire By...

We have a lot of nice things. We're really good at making nice things. We should preserve these nice things. But also nothing lasts forever?...

Everything you wanted to know about 1st Century Palestine, but were afraid to ask… The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the Hi...

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart By: Nicholas Carr Published: 2025 272 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? On it...

A story of one Palestinian's fight against brutality, bureaucracy, and bishops. We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Wh...

Asterios Polyp by: David Mazzucchelli The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by: Nova Jacobs The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday...

The power of positive thinking and cocaine! The Kid Stays in the Picture By: Robert Evans Published: 1994 432 Pages Briefly, what is this bo...

Chesterton mostly lost me after Arthur and Alfred, but I feel like I got his point in spite of that. A Short History of England By: G.K. Che...

I actually never got around to discussing the Lord of the Flies element of this book. But trust me it's in there! The Wager: A Tale of Shipw...

Banned in most prisons! That feels like a point in the book's favor, but I'm not entirely sure I can articulate why. The Daily Laws: 366 Med...

If John Wick and Judge Dredd loved each other very much… Saga of the Forgotten Warrior By: Larry Correia 1- Son of the Black Sword 2- House...

When "stigmatizing" has become a bad word and a bad thing everywhere and for every one, one brave British curmudgeon dares to demand it's re...

Maybe the answer really is to be found in early 1970's Chilean socialism… The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisi...

Pick it up because it's short. Continue it because of the brutal Bavarian accent. Finish it because maybe he's on to something? The Future o...

Many college age girls lead lives of quiet desperation. The Mind Reels By: Fredrik deBoer Published: 2025 168 Pages Briefly, what is this bo...

Part memoir, part science writing, part history, and a lot of blaming her neighbor for her empties. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based...

Replay By: Ken Grimwood Published: 1998 320 Pages Briefly, what is this book about? A man dies and is sent back to his 18 year old self to r...

It took 20 years from Bell inventing the telegraph before someone sent an ad with it. It took ~7 years for the first piece of email spam to...

If you had been placing bets 150 years ago around what physics would have to say about the existence of God, you would have lost a lot of mo...

You've heard about placebo's? Well what about nocebos? The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker By: S...

It's another self help book. Is this the one that will finally put you over the top, or another in a long line of endeavors that look like p...

Thomas Hardy wrote horror? Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology By: Various, Edited by Richard Wells Published: 2021 479 Pages Briefly, w...

Gary Gygax (Grognard 13/Writer 10/Businessman 2) vs. Dave Arneson (Plaintiff 14/Storyteller 9/Writer 1) Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Du...

It's possible that in our pursuit of justice and equity that a few things might have been exaggerated. Progressive Myths By: Michael Huemer...

I expected to see a katana plunged into the heart of crypto. Instead I got a piece of wall art, where the two ideas were placed in near prox...

A meditation on technological divinity...

Don't hold back guys, tell us how you really feel. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All By: Eliezer Yudko...

A man who possessed a singular talent for making war and being duped. Grant By: Ron Chernow Published: 2017 1104 Pages Briefly, what is this...