Review: Mayflower
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors–and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entail...
Book Reviews
Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel
"History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences in peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences amongst peop...
Review: The Great Influenza, the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Precedent for These Unprecedented Times
Review: Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
Paradoxes with a “strong sense of an unuttered joy”
Review: The Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks
The hard-to-believe story about America’s first foreign war
Review: A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry
Learning to face death and the banalities of life
Review: Answers in the Form of Questions
“The only thing more preposterous than going on Jeopardy! is going on and thinking you can win”