The full title of Mary Trump’s book is Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Truth is stranger than fiction, and here, the truth is no matter how many shows I’ve seen about dysfunctional, obscenely wealthy families, none of them quite line up with the cruelty and corruption of […]
Archives for July 2020
Review | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2020-07-14 · by ·
If you haven’t read any Ray Bradbury lately, right now is a fantastic time to read Fahrenheit 451. Published nearly 70 years ago, when computers still filled rooms and were the provenance of the military and large universities, 1953 saw an armistice in Korea, the Rosenbergs executed for stealing the atomic bomb for the Soviets, […]
Short Review | Love Your Enemies by Arthur C. Brooks
2020-07-02 · by ·
“What is the good of pretending to be what you are not? Well, even on the human level, you know, there are two kinds of pretending. There is the bad kind, where the pretense is there instead of the real thing; as when a man pretends he is going to help you instead of really […]
