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On Photography [Review]

On Photography [Review]

by | Feb 22, 2017

Susan Sontag was a writer, philosopher and activist. She was born in 1933, did some stuff, and died in 2004. During that “doing some stuff” phase, she was politically outspoken with a brand that has since become the archetypical caricature of leftist nut jobs. In the...
The True Believer [Review]

The True Believer [Review]

by | Jan 3, 2015

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer is a modern philosophy classic, originally published in 1951. The book cover to the left, which I found on Pinterest (no you’re not going to find me with a bound up stack of actual paper), is from the 1963 edition. It’s a...
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are [Review]

The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are [Review]

by | Dec 11, 2014

The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are is a classic book by Alan Watts. One of the more than 25 books he wrote before he died in 1973. Watts was one of those legendary thinker-types that was probably just a few degrees off from true insanity. Or at least he...
The Business of Belief [Review]

The Business of Belief [Review]

by | Nov 24, 2014

My digital copy of The Business of Belief by Tom Asacker has more highlights marks in it than any book I’ve read in months, or possibly years. That’s saying more than it might seem. The book was short, I was finished in less than 3 hours. 3 wonderful...