Life Is Hard

BOOK REVIEWLife Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Wayby Kieran Setiya 2022 About the AuthorKieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement (London), the … Continue reading Life Is Hard

The Praetorian Guard

BOOK REVIEWThe Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome’s Elite Special Forces by Sandra Bingham 2013 About the AuthorSandra Bingham is Teaching Fellow in Classics, University of Edinburgh. She resides in Edinburgh, Scotland. About the BookNo other special force in history has a mystique equal to that of ancient Rome's thoroughbred protection and counter-insurgency squadron--the renowned … Continue reading The Praetorian Guard

One Nation under Blackmail

BOOK REVIEWOne Nation under Blackmail Volume 1 and 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epsteinby Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 About the AuthorWhitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher, and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer … Continue reading One Nation under Blackmail

The Lost Gospel

BOOK REVIEWThe Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene by Simcha Jacobovici 2014 About the AuthorSimcha Jacobovici is a three-time Emmy winning Israeli/Canadian filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author and an internationally acclaimed journalist. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion at Huntington University, … Continue reading The Lost Gospel

The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience

BOOK REVIEWThe Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscienceby Aron K. Barbey, Sherif Karama, Richard J. Haier 2022 About the AuthorsAron K. Barbey is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Center for Brain Plasticity, the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity Initiative, and the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory … Continue reading The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience

The White Pill

BOOK REVIEWThe White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil by Michael Malice 2022 About the AuthorMICHAEL MALICE is the author of The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil, The Anarchist Handbook, Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il, and The New Right, and coauthor of two New York Times best … Continue reading The White Pill

Ways of Being

BOOK REVIEWWays of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines; The Search for a Planetary Intelligenceby James Bridle 2022 About the AuthorJames Bridle is a writer and an artist. Their writing on art, politics, culture, and technology has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, The Observer, Wired, The Atlantic, the New Statesman, frieze, Domus, and ICON. … Continue reading Ways of Being