How Language Began – Daniel Everett
Daniel Everett’s ‘How Language Began’ might as well be called ‘why Chomsky is wrong.’ It’s also a very compelling argument.
Non-Fiction
City of a Hundred Fires – Richard Blanco
Reading ‘City of a Hundred Fires’ mostly brought to my attention how ill-equipped I am to really read poetry intelligibly.
The War on Normal People – Andrew Yang
I’ve been concerned about the problem of automation for years, and considered a universal basic income a solution. This book is a much larger look at the issue.
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Some ‘classics’ just aren’t worth anyone’s time.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure – Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
“The Coddling of the American Mind” might be the next book in the series of doom-saying prophecy, or it may have some actual valid points.
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
There is a very little I can say about this short of ‘please go read it’
Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think – Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kolter
The authors of this book think that everything is going to be fine, and that the future is going to be great. But to what extent are the correct?
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What is Secular Humanism? – Paul Kurtz
I’ve noticed a problem; anyone can join a movement. People nowadays seem to be big on labels, and the problem
Did the Greeks believe in their Myths? – Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne’s “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths” is all the reasons why you don’t send a philosopher to do a historian’s job.
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An Anthropologist on Mars – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks’ “An Anthropologist on Mars” handles a terrifying subject matter in a way that is nothing but fascinating.
Failures in Polymathy 