There have been many purges on the right, led for instance by National Review and William F Buckley, removing from polite society those who were considered “extreme” elements. People who would embarrass […]
Capitalism Is Dead: Long Live The Expertocracy. Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution at 80
James Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World in 1941 to argue that capitalism was waning and being replaced everywhere by managerialism. He was right. The term managerialism, […]
A Stirring Spirited Speech: Bronze Age Mindset — Reviewed
Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them […]
Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation
Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and Statistics. Here […]
The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Reviewed
People first Just in time for the Federally-Recognized-Holiday-Of-25-December-That-Shall-Go-Unnamed we have a suitable gift for science deniers everywhere. Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Science deniers? Yes, sir. Those who deny […]
Party’s Over, Baby: The Twilight of Abundance Reviewed
The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald, visiting Fellow Institute of World Politics. I am a curmudgeon, which is to […]
Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to change—that is, […]
Have You Seen My Country Lately? — by Jerry Doyle
Have You Seen My Country Lately? America’s Wake-Up Call by Jerry Doyle Recommendation: Read There’s no point in accusing me, because I admit it. I picked up the book because I saw […]
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