Below is an index by topic of both the author's book reviews and blog posts. All are linked to their Goodreads.com home. Blogs are sub-ordered by date, book reviews alphabetically by title. All blog topics overlap with others under multiple headings, most books do. Index updated regularly.

AUTHOR EXPERIENCES

• BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
• BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
• BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
• BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
• BLOG: At the Center of the Universe, From the Middle of Nowhere. (And Anybody Can Go There.), May 3, 2015

AUTONOMY & INDIVIDUALISM

• BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
• BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
• BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
• BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
• BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
• REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont

• REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
• REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
• REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
• REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
• REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Western Way, by Joseph Campbell

BIOGRAPHIES

• REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
• REVIEW: John Adams, by David McCullough
• REVIEW: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God, by Will Durant
• REVIEW: Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska
• REVIEW: Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle
• REVIEW: Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T, Mitchell
• REVIEW: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms
• REVIEW: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
• REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump

CIVILIZATION

• BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
• BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
• BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
• BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
• BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
• BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 3: Has social change made the US Constitution obsolete?, January 7, 2019
• BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• BLOG: November 1, 2021: Humanity’s First Colossal Blunder, November 1, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• REVIEW: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: Ancient Empires before Alexander, by Robert L. Dise Jr.
• REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
• REVIEW: Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, by Alexis Q. Castor
• REVIEW: A Brief History of the World, by Peter N. Stearns
• REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
• REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
• REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
• REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
• REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
• REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
• REVIEW: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous & N.K. Sandars translator
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis

• REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
• REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
• REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
• REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
• REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
• REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
• REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
• REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
• REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
• REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
• REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
• REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Classics, by Bruce S. Thrornton

• REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen

COMMUNITY & TRADITION

• BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
• BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience, by George W. Carey & Bruce Frohnen
• REVIEW: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin
• REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
• REVIEW: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, by Aldo Leopold
• REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper

CONSERVATIVISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN

• BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
• REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
• REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
• REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
• REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer

CREATIONISM

• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
• REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
• REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
• REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
• REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman

CHRISTIANITY

• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
• REVIEW: The Apostle Paul, by Luke Timothy Johnson
• REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
• REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
• REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
• REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
• REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
• REVIEW: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume, J.M. Bell (Editor)
• REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
• REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
• REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
• REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne

CULTURE WARS

• BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
• BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
• BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
• REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
• REVIEW: The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America, by Shelby Steele
• REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
• REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
• REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
• REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
• REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
• REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis

• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
• REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
• REVIEW: Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle
• REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
• REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
• REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
• REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
• REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
• REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
• REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen

CURRENT EVENTS & ISSUES

• BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
• BLOG: After five years, my second novel is complete. What I wish I hadn’t learned:, November 4, 2019
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
• BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
• BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
• BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America, by Shelby Steele
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
• REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley
• REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers

DEMOCRACY

• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• REVIEW: 1776, by David McCullough
• REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
• REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
• REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: Democracy in America: Specially Edited and Abridged for the Modern Reader, by Alexis de Tocqueville
• REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis

• REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
• REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen

ECONOMICS

• BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• REVIEW: America's Economic Supremacy, by Brooks Adams
• REVIEW: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin
• REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
• REVIEW: From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, by Louis Dumont

• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek

FICTION

• REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
• REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis

• REVIEW: The Stranger, by Albert Camus

FLIMFLAM NONSENSE

• BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
• REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra

GLOBAL WARMING

• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
• REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley

HISTORY

• BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
• BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: November 1, 2021: Humanity’s First Colossal Blunder, November 1, 2021
• BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
• REVIEW: 1776, by David McCullough
• REVIEW: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
• REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
• REVIEW: Ancient Empires before Alexander, by Robert L. Dise Jr.
• REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
• REVIEW: Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, by Alexis Q. Castor
• REVIEW: A Brief History of the World, by Peter N. Stearns
• REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
• REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
• REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
• REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
• REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
• REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis

• REVIEW: Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska
• REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
• REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
• REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
• REVIEW: The Lessons of History, by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
• REVIEW: From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, by Louis Dumont
• REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
• REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
• REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
• REVIEW: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
• REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Classics, by Bruce S. Thrornton

• REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
• REVIEW: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
• REVIEW: The Wisdom of History, by J. Rufus Fears

HUMAN EVOLUTION

• REVIEW: Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall
• REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
• REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
• REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
• REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah

LIBERALISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN

• BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
• REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
• REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
• REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
• REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
• REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
• REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
• REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
• REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner

MEANING OR PURPOSE?

• BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
• BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
• BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
• BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
• BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
• BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
• REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
• REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
• REVIEW: The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson

MORALITY & ETHICS

• BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
• BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
• BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer

MYTHOLOGY

• REVIEW: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous & N.K. Sandars translator
• REVIEW: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms
• REVIEW: Mythology and the Individual (Joseph Campbell Audio Collection), by Joseph Campbell

• REVIEW: Popol Vuh, by Anonymous, Dennis Tedlock (Translator)
• REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell
• REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Western Way, by Joseph Campbell
• REVIEW: Way of the Animal Powers, Part 1, by Joseph Campbell
• REVIEW: The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms

NATURE

• BLOG: May 3, 2021: At the Center of the Universe, From the Middle of Nowhere. (And Anybody Can Go There.), May 3, 2015
• REVIEW: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal
• REVIEW: Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• REVIEW: A New History of Life, by Stuart Sutherland
• REVIEW: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, by Aldo Leopold

PHILOSOPHY

• BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
• BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
• BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
• BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
• BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 1: Did the Founders get it wrong?, July 2, 2018
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 4: Rousseau’s enduring rebuke of Enlightenment governance, March 4, 2019
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 5: Utilitarians vs. the Founders. Who was right?, July 1, 2019
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
• REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
• REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
• REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
• REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
• REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
• REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
• REVIEW: Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T, Mitchell
• REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
• REVIEW: No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life, by Robert C. Solomon
• REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
• REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
• REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
• REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning, by James V. SChall/a>
• REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen

POLITICS

• BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
• BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
• BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
• BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
• BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
• BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
• BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
• BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
• BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
• BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
• REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
• REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
• REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
• REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
• REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis

• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
• REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
• REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
• REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
• REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
• REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
• REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
• REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
• REVIEW: Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans, by Stephanie Faul

POSTMODERNISM

• REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
• REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
• REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
• REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
• REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
• REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
• REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
• REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
• REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
• REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner

PSYCHOLOGY

• BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016:
• BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
• BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
• BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018:
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
• BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal
• REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
• REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
• REVIEW: The Brain: The Story of You, by David Eagleman
• REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
• REVIEW: The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
• REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
• REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
• REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
• REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
• REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
• REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell
• REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans, by Stephanie Faul

RELIGION

• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
• BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
• REVIEW: The Apostle Paul, by Luke Timothy Johnson
• REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
• REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
• REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
• REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
• REVIEW: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume, J.M. Bell (Editor)
• REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
• REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
• REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
• REVIEW: The Lonely Man of Faith, by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
• REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
• REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
• REVIEW: Mythology and the Individual (Joseph Campbell Audio Collection), by Joseph Campbell

• REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
• REVIEW: Popol Vuh, by Anonymous, Dennis Tedlock (Translator)
• REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
• REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
• REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
• REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell

SCIENCE & TECH

• BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
• BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
• BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
• BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
• BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
• BLOG: May 3, 2021: At the Center of the Universe, From the Middle of Nowhere. (And Anybody Can Go There.), May 3, 2015
• REVIEW: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 73: Lasers, Molecules, and Methods, by Joseph O. Hirschfelder
• REVIEW: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal
• REVIEW: At Home in the Universe, by Stuart A. Kauffman
• REVIEW: Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall
• REVIEW: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, by Freeman Dyson Ed. & Tim Folger Ed.
• REVIEW: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
• REVIEW: Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution, by Maitland Armstrong Edey & Donald C. Johanson
• REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
• REVIEW: The Brain: The Story of You, by David Eagleman
• REVIEW: Carbon Nano Forms and Applications, by Maheshwar Sharon
• REVIEW: Catalysis: An Integrated Approach, Volume 123, by R.A. Van Santen Ed. et. al.
• REVIEW: Catalysis by Metals: Course Held in Les Houches, 19-29 March 1996, by Albert-Jean Renouprez Ed. & Hervé Jobic Ed.
• REVIEW: Coherent Radar Performance Estimation, by James A. Scheer Ed.
• REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
• REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
• REVIEW: Electromagnetic Principles Of Integrated Optics, by Donald L. Lee
• REVIEW: Elementary Linear Algebra, by Howard Anton
• REVIEW: Elementary Modern Physics, by Richard T. Weidner & Robert L. Sells
• REVIEW: Elementary Quantum Mechanics, by David S. Saxon
• REVIEW: High Resolution Radar, by Donald R. Wehner
• REVIEW: Information Transmission, Modulation, and Noise: A Unified Approach to Communication Systems, by Mischa Schwartz
• REVIEW: Introduction to Airborne Radar, by George W. Stimson
• REVIEW: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed., by David J. Griffiths, by David J. Griffiths
• REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
• REVIEW: Laser Control and Manipulation of Molecules, by A.D. Bandrauk Ed.
• REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
• REVIEW: Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structureinfrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules Volume 2, by Gerhard Herzberg
• REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
• REVIEW: A New History of Life, by Stuart Sutherland
• REVIEW: Nonlinear Laser Chemistry: Multiple-Photon Excitation, by V.S. Letokhov
• REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
• REVIEW: Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics, by Stuart A. Rice
• REVIEW: Optics, by Eugene Hecht
• REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
• REVIEW: Physical Chemistry, by Peter Atkins & Julio de Paula
• REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
• REVIEW: Radar System Design & Analysis, by Shahan A. Hovanessian
• REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
• REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
• REVIEW: Sex and the Origins of Death, by William R. Clark
• REVIEW: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
• REVIEW: Surface Plasmons, by Heinz Raether
• REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley
• REVIEW: At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity, by William R. Clark

TOTALITARIANISM

• BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
• BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
• BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
• BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
• BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
• BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
• BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
• BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
• BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
• BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
• BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
• BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
• BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
• BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
• BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
• BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
• BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
• BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
• REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
• REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
• REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
• REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
• REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
• REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis

• REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
• REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
• REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
• REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
• REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
• REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
• REVIEW: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder

U.S. CONSTITUTION

• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 1: Did the Founders get it wrong?, July 2, 2018
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 3: Has social change made the US Constitution obsolete?, January 7, 2019
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 4: Rousseau’s enduring rebuke of Enlightenment governance, March 4, 2019
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 5: Utilitarians vs. the Founders. Who was right?, July 1, 2019
• BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
• REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
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