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November 2025

November 28, 2025

From the library: Believe, by Ross Douthat

With the subtitle, Why Everyone Should be Religious. Is it a perfect book? No. If...

July 2018

July 15, 2018

From the library, “To Change the Church,” by Ross Douthat

One thing is clear: Ross Douthat does not like Pope Francis. He believes that his...

July 12, 2018

From the library: There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather, by Linda Akeson McGurk

So it's been a while since I've typed up one of my book summaries. I...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

From the library: Actung Baby, An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children, by Sara Zaske

Turns out, the Germans are actually pretty dang similar to the Dutchies, as profiled in...

December 2017

December 03, 2017

From the library: iGen, by Jean M. Twenge

Subtitled "Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy --...

October 2017

October 14, 2017

From the library: The Unbanking of America, by Lisa Servon

Some time ago, I read a book, which I really thought I had blogged about,...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

From the Library: The Happiest Kids in the World

Apparently, the white working class in the U.S. have a lot in common with the...

August 18, 2017

From the library: White Working Class by Joan C. Williams

Subtitled, Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, this little book (125 pages) is directed at upper...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

From the library: Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance

So this is a book that I'd been trying to find at the library for...

October 03, 2016

From the library: Fail U.; The False Promise of Higher Education, by Charles J. Sykes

So here's a book of the genre that is, in the end, nothing new, but...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

From the library: On Saudi Arabia, by Karen Elliott House

Subtitled Its People,Past, Religion, Fault Lines -- and Future, this book, published in 2012, was...

April 11, 2016

From the library: Generation War

Lots of spoilers here, so click away if you were thinking of checking this movie...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

From the library: One Child; The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiement, by Mei Fong

The title is somewhat misleading: this book is not a detailed history of the One-Child...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

From the library: Under the Bus; How working women are being run over, by Caroline Fredrickson

So remember when I wrote about Unfinished Business, by Ann-Marie Slaughter, and her notion that...

January 11, 2016

From the library: Headscarves and Hymens; Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy

I picked this up of the New Book shelf yesterday and it's a short enough...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

From the library: Under the Same Sky, by Joseph Kim

To begin with: a pet peeve. Many years ago, I read a book called A...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

From the library: America’s Bitter Pill, by Steven Brill

This book is a bit of a bait-and-switch; you all know about the famous "Bitter...

March 10, 2015

From the library: Social Security Works! by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson

The subtitle to the book pretty much says it all, "Why Social Security Isn't Going...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

From the library: Burn

Yeah, so this is a film, not a book. It's about firefighters in Detroit, and...

February 13, 2015

From the library: Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation, by Michael Zielenziger

This is actually an old book, dating from 2006. I strayed from the new book...

February 09, 2015

From the library: Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept its Feet, by John Bemelmans Marciano

I guess I'm being particularly nerdy lately, what with throwing various kinds of stats at...

October 2014

October 05, 2014

From the library: The Rule of Nobody; Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government, by Philip K. Howard

Boy, this is a downer of a book -- because the subtitle isn't really accurate....

June 2014

June 11, 2014

From the library: How Could This Happen, Explaining the Holocaust, by Dan McMillan

(This is a sort of post that I haven't written in a while, in which...