Reading
Finished reading: Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson. A fascinating, frustrating, and in the end I think incoherent book. 📚
Currently reading: Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson 📚
Finished reading: Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume. The moral and literary essays remain vibrant, but the political ones — numerically dominant — are largely of historical interest. 📚
Currently reading: Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume 📚
Finished reading: The Virginian by Owen Wister. Not a good book, but a fascinating one – and massively influential. 📚
Currently reading: The Virginian by Owen Wister 📚
Finished reading: Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand by Charles Marsh. A fascinating brief book (really a long essay). Will post on it soon. 📚
Currently reading: Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand by Charles Marsh 📚
Finished reading: Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée sauvage” by Claude Lévi-Strauss. what an enormously frustrating book. 📚
Currently reading: Wild Thought by Claude Lévi-Strauss 📚
Finished reading: The Age of Eisenhower by William I Hitchcock 📚
Currently reading: The Age of Eisenhower by William I Hitchcock 📚
Finished reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban. What a superb book – and how I wish I had written it. 📚
Currently reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 📚
Finished reading: Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands. A brilliant book – a vibrant narrative about an immensely complex subject. 📚
Currently reading: Dreams of El Dorado by H. W. Brands 📚
Finished reading: The Earliest English Poems by Michael J. Alexander 📚
Currently reading: The Earliest English Poems edited by Michael J. Alexander 📚