A Higher Loyalty – James Comey
Guided by principles of what duty to an office really means, this book illuminates the reasoning behind recent events.
Non-Fiction
The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow
Statistics themselves can be rather boring, but this slim’s book story of how they affect our day to day life is rather captivating.
The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
Life for the Portuguese poet certainly is not peachy…
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free – Cory Doctorow
The arts in this new internet based economy do not work as we would think.
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The Filter Bubble – Eli Pariser
The internet is no longer a wide field of free information. It’s being given to you mediated, and the mediators are starting to have an effect on us..
Future Crimes – Marc Goodman
Its a great time to be alive. That is, unless you know what is going on. Then its kind of scary.
Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff
A book that needs little introduction
Selected Epigrams – Martial (Translated by Susan McLean)
The first century Roman poet fills you in on just what Roman society was like. It’s not what you think.
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The once and future liberal – Mark Lilla
One of the more unsurprising finger-pointing books regarding the last election, this one aims itself at identity politics.
Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance’s hillbilly childhood was rather poor, and it may be symptomatic of what is wrong in modern America.
Failures in Polymathy 