Consilience by E.O. Wilson — The Book He Was Allowed to Write After the One That Got Him Burned
A review of E.O. Wilson’s Consilience — the grand unification project that makes no sense without understanding what happened to Wilson in 1975.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: The White Whale Was Always America
A review of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a novel about capitalism, manifest destiny, and the American myth of conquest — and why it still reads like prophecy.
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill — One Idea, One Hundred and Sixty Years, Still Not Settled
A review of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty — the Harm Principle, individual freedom, and why governments still can’t leave it alone 165 years later.
The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Few books arrive with the kind of philosophical weight that reorganizes how you think about…
What You Think You Know Is a Story You’ve Never Questioned: A Review of On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
[On Certainty — Ludwig Wittgenstein | Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble*] Knowledge has…
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach: The God You Built From the Best Parts of Yourself
A review of Feuerbach’s 1841 argument that God is the outward projection of human nature — and what that costs us. Read at the Heritage Diner blog.
