Pepys and Quakers
A Book Review of Margaret Willes, The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn (2017)
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn were major chroniclers of 17 th …
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn were major chroniclers of 17 th …
If you are looking for a deeper understanding of elder care at the end of life, this book, Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss …
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012) is an angry and illuminating description of the current…
In his new book, The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith and the Search for the Soul , neurologist Jay Lombard, and his…
At every meal, we choose who lives and who dies. This is a fact at every meal, three times per day for most of us. … This eating experience may be…
Thomas Picketty, in Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2017) argues, with impressive documentation, that inequality is substantial and is…
Talking about the universal human experience of death is a good thing. In the new book, Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s…
As the title of his book, F. Freistetter, Isaac Newton: The Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe (Prometheus, 2018) indicates, Isaac Newton…
This book offers us the dramatic story of the first trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. The defendant Lubanga was a warlord in the Congo, charged with doing bad things. Lubanga was convicted of some bad things…
Soulymane B. Diagne, Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition ( 2018) seeks to show the richness and…