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Literature: The Ultimate Answer to the Algorithm
Building a Solid Self in a Shaky Society: Reviewing Luke Burgis’s ‘The One and the Ninety-Nine’
Jun 27
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Candice Millard and the Revival of History as Literature
Is History Boring? Only if You Write Boring History.
Jun 17
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Conor Broll
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There Were Two Civil Wars, and We Weren’t Always Sure Which We Were Fighting
Damon Root’s ‘Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment’
Jun 10
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3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen
Lessons in Innovation from Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Milton Friedman, and Sonny Rollins
May 27
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Women Saints and Scientists You Should Know
The Inspiring Lives of Maria Skobtsova, Henrietta Leavitt, and Hildegard of Bingen
Mar 18
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Adam Smith for Dummies
Reviewing P.J. O’Rourke’s ‘On the Wealth of Nations’
Mar 9
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Don’t Know Jack About the Other C.S. Lewis?
Lewis Had 3 Careers: Novelist, Lay Theologian, and Scholar. Here’s a Look at His Most Ambitious Academic Project
Mar 7
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We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
Reviewing Stewart Brand’s ‘Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One’
Jan 28
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Why Is Axe Murder Funny? Why Is It Captivating?
Reviewing Rachel McCarthy James’s ‘Whack Job’ and Andrew Klavan’s ‘The Kingdom of Cain’
Dec 13, 2025
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Joel J Miller
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J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World
Reviewing Joseph Loconte’s ‘The War for Middle Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945’
Dec 3, 2025
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
A Charitable (I Hope) Critique
Nov 22, 2025
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Worse Than Jerks: Why Some People Have Rotten Character
And Why Socrates Couldn’t Fix It: Reviewing ‘The Quest for Character’ by Massimo Pigliucci
Nov 15, 2025
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