Philistine that I am, I had never heard of The Second Sex, a 1000-page protest of woman’s lot in life by existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, until it was given a passing nod in the TV series Emily in Paris. An over-short snark would be to say that Emily provides more insight into the life of a…
Category: Book Reviews
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
A book everyone should read is The Law by Frederic Bastiat. Written in 1849, this short work is dead-on at identifying both the purpose and the limitations of government and legal systems. Highly recommended! The Law is freely available from multiple sources and in multiple formats, including this e-book site: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2770/the-law.
Recognition Publication
This is a teaser, but for those of you who haven’t given up, I’ve decided to publish Recognition as an e-book. This is the first half of what some of you have read. It should be on Kindle soon and other platforms to follow shortly. I’ll post an update when it’s available, naturally, since I…
Book Review: Going Rogue
Although I was not enthusiastic about the prospect, I recently had a chance to read Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin. It’s really not bad and I think it conveys a substantial amount of what her former running mate might call the "straight talk” about who Sarah Palin is and what she really…
Solzhenitsyn Dead, Lessons Remain
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has died at the age of 89. Happily he lived to see the end of the Soviet regime that his books excoriated. Dry stuff, for those who haven’t read him, but his books revealed horrors that, by the end of Gulag, became completely banal as a result of…
Wild at Heart by John Eldredge: A Rambling Analysis
I’ll cut to the chase so the disinterested can cut and run without wasting their time: Wild at Heart is a book, perhaps the book, for Christian men who sense that something is missing from their lives, their relationships with their wives and children, their church, and/or their relationship with God. Still with me? Good. Now, be honest: Do…
A Review of Richard Wright’s Native Son
I decided to read Native Son as a result of Michael posting a notice about Jess’s Book Club at Monsters and Critics. While I’d heard of Wright before this is the first book of his that I’ve read. The Marc’s Notes summary of the book follows: “Bigger” Thomas, a twenty-year old do nothing is offered…