The Bloggers

I am honored to be on the list of 25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make You Smarter.

It should also be noted, however, that Kurt Hardin's Cultural Offering blog is a daily essential. 

Kurt makes us smarter while showing how to live a good life.

[Photo by Clay Banks at Unsplash]

The Age of Anxiety

 

Munk Debates on the Mainstream Media

Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray trounce Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg in the Munk Debates on the question of whether the mainstream media can be trusted.

Reminder

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

- Clive James

The New Censorship

 

Intensity

Prior to this evening, I would have said that I am somewhat of a Civil War buff. 

Following a conversation with an old friend who is a serious Civil War buff, I am downgrading my status.

Apprentice Civil War Buff.

Read the Great Writers

 

Faux Friendship

In retrospect, it seems inevitable that once we decided to become friends with everyone, we would forget how to be friends with anyone.

- William Deresiewicz, The End of Solitude

Disparity vs Inequity

 

Non-Fiction Books That Contained the Most "Wow" Moments for Me in 2022

 

• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
• The Rothchilds: A Family Portrait by Frederic Morton
• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
• Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of The Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Simon Jacobson
• World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer
• Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite by William Deresiewicz
• Life and Death in The Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche
• Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
• Elon Musk  by Ashlee Vance
• The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
• The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite by Michael Lind
• Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis by James Lindsay
• Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education by Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
• Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business by Chet Richards
• The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults by Mark Bauerlein
• The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
• The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
• Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers by Andrey Mir
• The Decline of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done by John M. Ellis