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Category Archives: Reviews
Rise and Reign of the Mammals
Mammals, we learn in elementary school, are warm-blooded critters who give birth to live young, produce milk, and are noted for their hair. Only….as we get older, we learn about marsupials and platypuses and whales and realize the story of … Continue reading
Hello, Everybody!
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a host of technologies released that utterly transformed society, and few as dramatic as radio. Hello, Everybody! is an engaging history of the early decades of radio, filled with some dramatic, unbelievable … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, history, Hoover, Technology and Society, telecommunications
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American Carnage
I fell out with both wings of the old uniparty in the mid-2000s over the war on terror and its attendant police state, which both parties supported despite some gum-flapping on the part of the Dems during the Bush years. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged journalism, politics, populism, Trump
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Beauteous Truth
I encountered Joseph Pearce over a decade ago via a podcast on literature: he is a man whose life was transformed through literature and the grace he experienced through it. His passion seeking the ‘good, the true, and the beautiful’ … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Britain, Catholicism, Christianity, CS Lewis, Dante, essays, GK Chesterton, Joseph Pearce, literature
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SciFi Prompt #4 — and, the worst novel I’ve read this year
Today’s SciFi prompt is “Little Blue Dot”, or books about coming and going from “this fragile Earth, our island home”. Contact comes to mind immediately, and given that today is Carl Sagan’s birthday, I can’t imagine a better response. Contact … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged Corey Doctorow, near-future SF, science fiction, SF Month 2024
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Two years ago I read a Wendell Berry collection of essays edited not by Brother Berry himself, but by someone named Paul Kingsnorth. Being the nosy sort that I am, I inquired of Google who Kingsnorth might be, I knew … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Britain, environmentalism, essays, Paul Kingsnorth, quotations, Technology and Society, Wendell Berry
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
Most people encounter C.S. Lewis as a Christian apologist or an author of stories — either the children’s series of Narnia, or his fascinating “space trilogy”, which combined mythology, medieval cosmology, and character drama to good effect. His occupation, though, … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged C.S.Lewis, Christianity, Dante, Inklings, literature, Medieval, Narnia
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The Old Lion
Imagine if someone wrote a fictional biography of Chuck Norris, but they used the internet legend version of Norris as their inspiration rather than the actor himself. That’s what impression The Old Lion gives me, frankly, a worshipful depiction of … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, Hail to the Chief, historical fiction, Thedore Roosevelt
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