Book Review—The Hundred-Year Marathon—"China’s Dream is America’s Nightmare"
In some ways this book is as fantastical as “The Travels of Marco Polo.” It’s a disturbing account of the Chinese Communist Party’s...
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- Feb 2
- 2 min
Salt--the rock we eat
Too much salt can kill you. Not enough can kill you, too. Until recent times, when modern geology literally unearthed the earth’s...
- Jan 1
- 3 min
Leipzig’s Monday-Evening “Prayer-for-Peace” Meetings – and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Perhaps the most iconic photos marking the end of the Soviet empire feature the dramatic images of protestors breaking down the Berlin...
- Sep 27, 2022
- 9 min
Through the looking glass with Marco Polo
It’s the stuff of fantasy, not unlike the world of Alice in Wonderland, or of Dorothy in the Land of Oz, or of the time traveler in The...
- Sep 26, 2022
- 5 min
Book Review—"Inside the Third Reich"—A Cautionary Tale
When “Inside the Third Reich” by Albert Speer, arrived in bookstores in 1970, the Vietnam war was raging unabated. In an interview with...
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review—"The Best and the Brightest"—An Entertaining and Tragic Tale
It was a glittering array of talent. Vice president Lyndon Johnson was deeply impressed. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he...
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
A Middle-Class Invention
"England is a nation of shopkeepers." Thus spake Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't being complimentary. It was a put-down, his way of...
- Aug 27, 2022
- 3 min
Ordering Up A New World
Book Review: The Infidel and the Professor, by Dennis C. Rasmussen The “infidel” is David Hume and “the professor” is Adam Smith, two...
- Aug 16, 2022
- 2 min
An Embarrassment of Riches
It took a year-and-a-half of waiting in anterooms, of personal humiliations, of lobbying the government for official recognition, and of...
- Jul 8, 2022
- 2 min
Book Review: "The Art of the impossible", by Vaclav Havel
Who was Vaclav Havel? He was a leading figure in the "Velvet Revolution", that propelled Czechoslovakia to Independence from the Soviet...
- Feb 10, 2022
- 6 min
Christmas and the three Isaiahs
Reading the book of Isaiah is particularly apropos during the Christmas Holidays, since it has so much to say about the coming of the...
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Last Nomad
Normally, I read books about constitutional law, history, and biographies of historical people. However, I was in the mood for something...
- Feb 10, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review: The Bible Today–A Commentary, by C. H. Dodd
For such a short book (163 pages), this Bible commentary contains an amazing amount of information. The Bible was meant to be read by...
- Feb 10, 2022
- 7 min
Can Prayer Change the World?
Book Review: "Christian Science in East Germany: The Church that Came In from the Cold", by Gregory W. Sandford Can prayer change the...
- Feb 10, 2022
- 4 min
Book Review: "Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy"
What can William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan playwright of some of the most tragic and violent plays in the English language, teach us...
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