The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

This book is earnest and valuable, but completely inadequate and gap-filled. (The written version of this review was first published February 12, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)

Wilhelm Röpke's 1960 "A Humane Economy" offered prescriptions for combining free markets with necessary limits.  Valuable thoughts in today's flux.  (The written version of this review was first published February 3, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)

Why Venice, interesting of itself, has much to say to us today.  (The written version of this review was first published January 31, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)

For a century, we have been subjected to ugly architecture. How did we get here, and what can be done about it? (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats, can be found here.)

Steve Bannon loves this book. I don't. (The written version of this review was first published January 22, 2019. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)

My generally negative take on the lines of thought that fall under the umbrella of the "Dark Enlightenment."  (The written version of this review was first published June 27, 2018.  Written versions, in web, PDF and ebook formats, are available here.  The web version also contains extensive comments, including responses from me.)

This thirty-year-old book talks of a century of American technological progress that ended twenty years before it was published.  What does that century of technological grandeur tell us about today?  (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats, can be found here.)

This classic book, by the protean Ernst Jünger, is often taken to be a libertarian manifesto.  That is entirely wrong. (The written version of this review was first published January 21, 2019.  Written versions, in web, PDF and ebook formats, are available here.)

Today we offer thoughts about a contemporaneous attack on the "harm principle" of that avatar of Enlightenment and progressive thought, John Stuart Mill.  (The written version of this review can be found here.)

A complete analysis of the controversy surrounding the computer game Battlefield V. (The written version of this review was first posted January 16, 2019.)