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Tag Archives: manners and morals
The Bonobo and the Atheist
The Bonobo and the Atheist: in Search of Humanism Among the Primates © 2013 Frans de Waal313 pages Frans de Waal has written extensively on moral instincts within the great apes, in books like Good natured and Primates and Philosophers. In The … Continue reading
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Tagged Frans de Waal, Humanism, irreligion, manners and morals, primates, religion, science
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Crabgrass Frontier
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States© 1985 Kenneth Jackson432 pages For thousands of years, people lived in either the country or the city, but with the coming of the industrial revolution that changed, and especially in America. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, cities, civic awareness, critical history, history, housing, manners and morals, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, transportation, urbanism
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Home Economics
Home Economics© 1987 Wendell Berry192 pages The term economics originally referred to household management, and to Wendell Berry, that’s what it should remain still. Home Economics collects essays on the meaning and relation of economy to human life. In it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Distributionism, Distributism, ecology, economics, essays, farming, food, food and drink, kith and kin, manners and morals, philosophy, sacramental living, Wendell Berry
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Free to Choose, Born to Buy (and Left to Die)
In the past two weeks I’ve been reading a series of books which connected together despite being on disparate subjects. Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose, published in the 1970s, argues for a completely free market — that is, one with … Continue reading
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Tagged children, classically liberal, consumerism, economics, goods/services, manners and morals, marketing, parenting, philosophy, poverty
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion© 2013 Jonathan Haidt528 pages The Righteous Mind begins with a question, seriously posed: why can’t we all get along? To find the answer, Jonathan Haidt delves into the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, evolution, manners and morals, philosophy, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, psychology, religion, sociobiology, sociology
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The Conservative Mind
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot© 1953 Russell Kirk534 pages (7th Edition) For most of human history, change has been a glacier — slow to move, retreating as much as it advances. Since the scientific and industrial revolutions, however, … Continue reading
French Kids Eat Everything
French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters© 2012 Karen Le Billon 320 pages Upon landing in France to spend a year with her … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, France, manners and morals, marriage and family, parenting
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