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BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Bakewell’s HUMANLY POSSIBLE: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking and Hope

BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Bakewell’s HUMANLY POSSIBLE: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking and Hope

Reviewing a new study of humanist thought and humanist lives from the 14th to the 20th centuries, in a book which appeals equally to those familiar with the historical context and those seek [...]
Book Review: The Upswing (Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn R.Garrett)

Book Review: The Upswing (Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn R.Garrett)

An examination of the synchronicity of four major trends in American society over the last 125 years: economic, political, social, and cultural. [...]
Book Review: Three Books by Carlo ROVELLI

Book Review: Three Books by Carlo ROVELLI

In Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland & The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli, a top theoretical physicist and co-author of the quantum loop gravity theory, explains Einstein’s general the [...]
Book Review: Blip: Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment With Industrialism (Clugston)

Book Review: Blip: Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment With Industrialism (Clugston)

America supports 330 million people who eat food, drive cars, consume everything in sight, and utilize over 80 different minerals and metals that make our civilization work.  Those non-renew [...]
Book Review: Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver (Smith)

Book Review: Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver (Smith)

There is much to praise in Christian Smith's Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver. The prose is fresh and clear, and the ideas are painstakingly presented with considerable academic [...]
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