We Are Not Saved

In which I start by using my massive intellect to predicte a timeline for the end of the world and end with admitting that I couldn't remember whether I'd read a specific book or not.

In which I engage in an extended, and somewhat clunky Star Wars metaphor. And eventually conclude that clunkiness is sort of the point.

1. Hamlet by: William Shakespeare

2. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1) by: Jeff Shaara

3. We Solve Murders by: Richard Osman

4. Stop All the Clocks: A Novel by: Noah Kumin

5. Pyrebound by Bray…

A review of Douglas Murray's "On Democracies and Death Cults" with broad discursions into Sam Kriss' article "Douglas Murray, gruesome toady" and the entire Israel-Hamas-Gaza Mess.

1. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by: Catherine Pakaluk

2. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by: Mancur Olson

3. This Ki…

1. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural by: Peter L. Berger

2. The Four Cardinal Virtues by: Josef Pieper

3. Analects by: Confucius

4. Believe: Why Everyone Should Be…

Someone needs to point out the potential problems with superforecasting. For some reason it as fallen to me.

The movement is called anti-aging, not anti-injury. How do people who believe they have a real shot at immortality interact with the phenomena of safetyism?

1. The Moral Sense by: James Q. Wilson

2. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1918-1956) by: Alekandr Solzhenitsyn

3. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II b…

Getting people to have more children may be as difficult as getting people to abandon their four-door sedan for a horse and buggy.

Three translations of a classic, high brow literary fiction, a great book from a friend of and mine then a whole lot of pulp. Also something that might be the beginnings of a book by Neal Stephenson.

Audio for the keystone chapter (Chapter Zero) of the book I'm working on.

If integration is straightforward how is it that the former East Germany is so different ideologically from the former West Germany?

1. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by: Timur Kuran

2. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by: Scott Horton

3. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-19…

Things are changing. Hopefully in good ways.

In which I decide that I am not going to read "Wind and Truth". And also that 63 hours on audio is just ridiculous.

1. The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea by: M. David Litwa

2. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by: Carolyn Elliott

3. The Ballad of the White Horse by: G. K. C…

A method for making better decisions should you ever find yourself in Kathmandu, or paying for SEO, or hoping to see the Supreme Court.