Reading Time: 4 minutes Two books from the past take us on a worldwide adventure of gardening
Tag: Non-fiction books
Economist Thomas Sowell tackles ‘Social Justice’ head-on in new book
Reading Time: 4 minutes There are no sacred cows that Sowell doesn’t debunk in Social Justice Fallacies
Piecing together the last days of Imperial Japan
Reading Time: 4 minutes Historical animosity between Japan and the Soviet Union shaped the final act of the Second World War
The Manhattan Project’s indispensable man
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves had a reputation for getting things done
Lincoln’s 1860 political miracle a warning for Trump and Biden
Reading Time: 4 minutes The unpredictable nature of U.S. politics
Nixon and Reagan: A tale of two California boys
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nixon and Reagan’s complex relationship unveiled in 2012’s The President’s Club
Four Canadian books I highly recommend
Reading Time: 5 minutes All four of these books are highly thought-provoking
History constantly challenges our notion of progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes The erosion of the optimism of the 1990s should be cause for concern
The inventive mind of John Maynard Keynes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The rise, fall, and resurgence of his economic theory
Caesar and Alexander – heroes, villains, or both?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Projecting modern values back over two thousand years is the tricky bit