[June 16, 2026] Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999) stands as one of the most ambitious attempts in modern psychology to reconcile science, mythology, and the human need for meaning. Dr. Peterson wrote the book after a personal crisis triggered by the horrors of the 20th century: totalitarian regimes, the Holocaust, nuclear threats, and… Read More »
[June 11, 2026] The winter months have evolved into the heat and humidity of summer; that is a good thing. I admit that I have no excuse for failing to provide a recent book review for my readers to enjoy [yes, it’s harder to pick up a book when the good weather draws us outside]. But like all… Read More »
[June 3, 2026] Dorothea Brande’s book, Wake Up and Live! strikes at the heart of human failure. People drift in self-deception, half-alive, substituting busyness for purpose. Her formula, act as if it were impossible to fail. Doing so demands voluntary confronting difficulties in life. You do this like cleaning your room (like Dr. Jordan Peterson would say). It… Read More »
[November 1, 2025] As I write this book review, all sorts of little kids are running throughout the local neighborhoods hunting down the best sources of candy treats and showing off their most outrageous outfits. What a great time of year, especially to those of us who are more comfortable with lower temperatures and less humidity. Speaking of… Read More »
[August 30, 2025] The book was in my mailbox, a surprise from a fan who thought I might like reading about Army Engineers in World War II. The book, First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany (1989) by Colonel David E. Pergrin, was somehow familiar to me. After looking through my… Read More »
[June 24, 2025] Summer just kicked off here in the Northeast with hot and humid days making the outdoors a little uncomfortable. In a way, this is a good thing because it gives me more time to get comfortable in my easy chair and read more. Today’s book is an example of one of my favorite types. And… Read More »
[April 1, 2025] The Washington Free Beacon just published a review of Gregory Carleton’s Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and The Birth of Modern Warfare, and it’s worthwhile to highlight an important historical account that could truly be seen as the birth of modern warfare. Personally, I knew nothing of the Crimean War, a major war between Russia on… Read More »
[November 29, 2024] In the 1960s, there was a popular idea circulating in academia that the world’s population growth was rapidly exceeding its environmental and technical limits to support itself. The results would be widespread starvation, affecting mostly children in poor nations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of southwest Asia. Ideas behind this thinking started in the… Read More »
[September 27, 2024] I’m back with another great book telling the stories that need telling about dustoff pilots in the Vietnam War. The first book was “The Helicopter Whisperers, Vol I” by Phil Marshall, which I reviewed here on Monday (see link). Today, I will highlight COL Doug Moore’s book “A Bullet Through the Helmet” and, yes, the… Read More »
[September 23, 2024] By luck, I just obtained two great books on helicopter rescues during the Vietnam War for review. The first is “The Helicopter Whisperers, Vol I” (2021) by Phil Marshall, and the second is “A Bullet Through the Helmet” (2019) by Douglas E. Moore. When Marshall’s book arrived, my wife said that I might need someone… Read More »