Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept
As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 13 min read
book review
A collection of 43 posts
Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments—A Review
In a cultural landscape where partisan skirmishes regularly induce something approaching bloodlust on both sides of the political aisle, it’s safe to say that most Americans are roundly rejecting Cowen’s thesis at the moment.
Coleman Hughes
· 10 min read
The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling
The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.
Christian Berggren
· 15 min read
Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield—A Review
Those curious about the next cohorts of conservatives—right-leaning students currently being reared in the age of Trump—should begin with Kirk.
Grant Addison
· 13 min read
The Souls of Yellow Folk—A Review
Collectively, the essays paint a fascinating and disturbing picture of pre-dystopian anomie and dissolution.
Daniel Oppenheimer
· 8 min read
Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review
As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.
Matthew Scott
· 11 min read
A Mania for All Seasons: The Continuing Importance of 'The Devils of Loudun'
Huxley’s dissection of a seventeenth century social pandemonium, whipped up in an era of shifting sexual mores, is a timeless indictment of the latent monstrousness within all human beings.
Samuel McGee-Hall
· 11 min read
Brotopia—Analysis and Review
Chang shows no awareness that gender parity is the exception not the rule in the US workplace.
Sean Welsh
· 13 min read
Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won
Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.
Gregory Cochran
· 7 min read
The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity
The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC.
Helen Dale
· 18 min read
Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind
Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression.
Stephen Harrod Buhner
· 8 min read
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life—A Review
The core thesis of The Elephant in the Brain is that this has major implications for public policy that we are loathe to admit.
Samuel Hammond
· 9 min read
Happiness by Design—Paul Dolan
Dolan’s proposal is that shifting our attention away from constructed narratives to actual experiences is likely to make us a lot happier.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read