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.
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers — The Last Wall Science Hasn’t Scaled
A review of David Chalmers’ landmark 1996 book The Conscious Mind, and why the hard problem of consciousness matters more in the age of AI than ever before.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky — The Man Knew What He Was Writing About
A review of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment — and why the biography matters as much as the novel. The man lived the darkness before he wrote it.
