American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation (book review)
a big part of the American story
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels…book review
Ian Morris talks energy
The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing…book review
the hurt and heroics and degradation
Twilight of the Elites…book review
Our elites are corrupt, they can’t stop themselves…
Friends Divided…off the mark, a book review
not Gordon Wood’s best
Eye of the Needle…desperate but human…movie review
living and dying
Battle of Wits…crypto in WWII…book review
surprise! personalities were important…
The Witches, 1692…book review
a community gone crazy…
Cave of Bones…Homo naledi…book review
there were more of us…
Origins of Modern America, 1860-1900…book review
The Gilded Age, not very pretty…