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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Book Review: The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power and Deception on the Eve of World War I (2023). Douglas Brunt.

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During the past year, I've read a number of excellent books that seemed to resonate as part of the backstory to some of the most urgent ...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Book Review: The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025). Chris Hayes.

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I heard on the news last night that this brand new book by the popular MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes has zoomed to the #1 position on the N...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Personal Note: It's 2025, and I'm Back!

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Hello! It's been quite a few months since I posted anything on here. I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still here, and gett...
Friday, August 16, 2024

TV Review: 800 Words, Seasons 1-3 (Acorn TV).

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Hello, and happy late summer!   I noticed my last few reviews were on rather weighty topics, in the midst of a nerve-wracking and perilous...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Erik Larson (2024).

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In our fraught era of social and political polarization, we’ve become accustomed to hearing from pundits about how “there’s no precedent for...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First. Jeff Goodell (2023).

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I read this climate change non-fiction book some months ago, and it’s taken me a while to get around to writing a review of it, but I believ...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Book Review: Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters. Brian Klaas (2024).

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In one of my favorite lines from my song Strangers , I posed a rhetorical question: “Who can trace the mysterious chain of events that now...