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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Breath by James Nestor: We All Breathe Badly!!

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As a book, Breath works because it sneaks physiology in through storytelling. Nestor uses explorers, monks, athletes, dentists, and oddbal...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution: The Book That Explains Why Revolutions Keep Failing

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  Hannah Arendt ’s On Revolution  is the book people come to later, after reading  The Origins of Totalitarianism  and Eichmann in Jerusalem...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Living on the Edge: Reading All of Sebastian Junger

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Sebastian Junger Over the past fifteen months I read all six of Sebastian Junger’s books. I didn’t plan it as a project, but once it started...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Sherlock Holmes, The Dog That Didn't Bark, and Protests in Iran

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  The phrase “ The dog that didn’t bark ” is one of my favorite metaphors from Arthur Conan Doyle ’s imagination.  In this case part of the ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

George Orwell’s Three-Power World—and Ours

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George Orwell ’s Nineteen Eighty-Four  does not present a world of many nations. It presents a world of three empires— Oceania , Eurasia , a...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Poet Flyer by E. John Knapp, a Review

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  E. John Knapp ’s Poet Flyer surprised me. The beginning of the story is routine and predictable as a war memoir. Whirlwind love. Whirlwin...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Sachsenhausen Nazi Death Camp.

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Sachsenhausen occupies a grim but central place in the Nazi camp system. Located just north of Berlin near the town of Oranienburg , it was...