The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney
Agent of Chaos could be ripped from contemporary headlines as it explores the very real potential consequences of AI integrated into weapons technology. Due to my own philosophical assumptions, most…
“Life After Capitalism” by George Gilder
Over 40 years, George Gilder has published deep and insightful writing on many topics: technological futurism, supply side economics, the nation and culture of Israel, the philosophy of money. What’s…
Ep 20 – “The Deep Places” by Ross Douthat
This is a reading of my 2021 book review. It holds up.
Ep 19: What Is Money? The Saylor Series
This episode is my appearance on the “Reformed Financial Advisor” podcast to discuss the “Saylor Series” and the backstory of how I came to be the editor. I’ve been…
Living High: An Unconventional Biography by June Burn
If you’re looking to read something that generates powerful feelings of nostalgia and wanderlust, this is the book for you. The story of June and Farrar Burn is incredible. Our…
Ep 16 – “Eggs Are Expensive, Sperm Is Cheap” with Greg Krehbiel
In this episode we’re going to talk about some things that will get you kicked out of polite society. It’s progressive and fashionable these days to talk about the Patriarchy…
“Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry” by Helaine Olen – #LockdownReadingList
Summary: This book does a great job of fulfilling the promise of its subtitle. Until recently, most American’s investment activity involved saving cash and paying into their permanent life insurance…
Episode 13 – Robert Beadles on Getting Started with Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is a complicated subject to grasp well. Currency alone is something everyone understands, but add all the other terms into the mix—cryptography, decentralization, nodes, distributed ledgers, public and private…
Episode 12 – Dr. Gordon Wilson on The Right Way to Be Green
My guest for episode 12 is Dr. Gordon Wilson, professor of biology at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In his new book, A Different Shade of Green, he…
“God Didn’t Make Me Gay” – A Conversation with Becket Cook
Becket Cook had fully embraced his homosexuality, including the lifestyle and all its trappings. As a successful set designer and supporting actor, he hung around with the Hollywood elite and…
Love is Stronger Than Death by Peter Kreeft
“…life is either totally meaningful or totally meaningless, depending on what death is. Therefore we had better try to find out what death is.” So begins Peter Kreeft in a…
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
[Subtitle] The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy George Gilder is one of my favorite thinkers. He writes coherently and thoughtfully about a rich variety…
A Disgrace to the Profession: The World’s Scientists–in their own words–on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science
Subtitle: The World’s Scientists–in their own words–on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science The famous “hockey stick” graph by climatologist Michael Mann, while not the…
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds | Phillip E. Johnson
Phillip Johnson wrote this in 1997 to equip students for the intellectual battle over evolution in philosophy and science. While it discusses a few scientific points, the primary focus is…
Episode 6: Pat Flynn on How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything
[Make sure and listen to the podcast episode with Pat, and don’t forget to scroll down for details on how to WIN a copy of the book!] Pat Flynn is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met, and that fact alone is sufficient proof of the potency of…
Who Needs the Fed? What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank – by John Tamny
Talk about an enticing sub-title! This book started off strong–with a fantastic and insightful analogy involving Uber and Taylor Swift–but got bogged down in repetitive and occasionally confusing detail. I’m…
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
I started The Casual Vacancy with eyes wide open to the fact that this was no Harry Potter novel–and yet, even though I wasn’t offended by the much more adult…
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Reuben Land grew up believing in miracles. He is eleven, living in rural Minnesota in the 1960s with his father and two siblings, when his older brother Davey shoots and…
[Guest Post] How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims
[Guest post by Katy Congdon] When I read fascinating things, I often can’t keep quiet about them…and How to Raise an Adult has been enlightening. I’ve found that certain things…
Episode 5 – Darwin’s House of Cards: A Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates by Tom Bethell
We’re going to dive right into a really fascinating book that I think you’ll find very stimulating and enriching. Darwinism is a fascinating topic on many levels. On one hand,…
