Godless – Dan Barker
This book is part memoir, part counter apologetics, and a pretty good tool to understand why atheists don’t believe.
Non-Fiction
Culture Counts – Roger Scruton
Do you remember the good old days? Roger Scruton does, and his memory of the good old days will save western civilization.
Not really…
The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk
Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.
Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.
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What Language is – John McWhorter
John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.
What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman
You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut
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Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.
From Here to Eternity – Caitlin Doughty
How do you feel about the dead? Would you like to have them a little more around? That actually is an option of sorts…
Data and Goliath – Bruce Schneier
People keep telling us that we are being spied on, but what does that really mean, anyway?
Insane Clown President – Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi followed the last election. It was like watching the world’s slowest possible train wreck.
Failures in Polymathy 