The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche — The Most Misread Book in the History of Ideas
Nietzsche’s Will to Power isn’t about domination — it’s about self-mastery. A review of the most misread, misappropriated book in the history of ideas.
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 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.
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.
