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.
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The Dreaming Jewels – Theodore Sturgeon
A strange adopted child ends up on the run…
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.
Getting Off – Lawrence Block
Sometimes, just by chance, you find a sex and murder filled book on your kindle. Inexplicably …
Words on the move – John McWhorter
John McWhorter knows what he is talking about, and in this volume he goes over much of what people not only do not understand about language, but what many so desperately need to learn about it.
Failures in Polymathy 