Tomorrow I hope to post my review of The Irrational Atheist, a book that responds to the recent wave of “New Atheist” arguments from people like Michel Onfray (whose Atheist Manifesto I reviewed yesterday) and Christopher Hitchens (who I’ve seen debate twice in recent months). Today, though, a review, as it were, of the […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (First of Four), February 2008: Michel Onfray’s Atheist Manifesto
Religious people have no evidence whatsoever to point to in support of their beliefs (the distinctly supernatural ones, that is, as opposed to some affiliated historical claims that are no different from the ones secular people would make). Often, then, […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (January 2008 — on sale today): Made in America
Michael Malice, co-author of this blog’s first Book Selection of the new year, will speak tomorrow night (Wed., Jan. 2, 8pm) at Lolita Bar, with a rousing introduction from me and autographed bookplates at the ready to slap on your copy […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
Happy Kwanzaa — or should I say fascist Kwanzaa? At least, you may come away from this book worrying that all ethnic-solidarity political movements (like the one that concocted Kwanzaa in […]
No, I haven’t finished writing a book (though Conservatism for Punks will exist eventually, sooner rather than later, I hope — and for a little right/left remixing in the interim, check out what’s on deck for our Dec. 5 Debate at Lolita Bar, now that I’ve found a hawk and dove to spar). However, […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (October 2007): Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak and Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher (and more)
David Brooks wrote in the New York Times last week that the Republican Party has been faltering because it has gotten too ideological, giving up Burkean restraint for extremist religious, free-market (go, team!), […]
Since I wrote about my favorite movies in the last entry, I should tip my hat to literacy by noting that I stumbled across this list, inspired by a whole book on the topic, of what are (arguably) the 100 most influential books of all time. It’s both humbling and inspiring.
(You could do far worse […]
I stopped collecting comics about a year ago, but that medium did a great deal to shape my brain over the years — from the moral example set by characters like the late Captain America to the rhetorical example set by the narration in Flaming Carrot Comics (which described the eponymous hero as “a dreadnaught […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (August 2007):
Science and Beyond (seven books on science — and its opposite!)
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I was lucky enough to join my friend Chuck Blake and a few others (including girlfriend Koli) recently in a discussion of physicist Lee Smolin’s book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (July 2007):
Many people simply refuse to accept the world as described by science, convinced that a fully material world would somehow be less satisfying than one full of ghosts, gods, or psychic powers. A particularly thickheaded strain of conservative even goes so far […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (June 2007):
Rules for Saying Goodbye by Katherine Taylor
I will help future literary historians (not to mention present-day reviewers facing imminent deadlines) by revealing one of the most important things about the just-released novel Rules for Saying Goodbye: Every word of it is true.
Well, OK, not every […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (May 2007):
Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum
In recent entries on this blog, I mentioned being troubled by people’s tendency to invest intellectual energy in illusions instead of analyzing the real world carefully. Janice Erlbaum’s memoir of her troubled teenage years (of which the paperback edition was […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (April 2007):
The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution by Pagan Kennedy
Since I mentioned a couple amputees in my last blog entry, it’s fitting that today I laud a book that’s partly about body modification. In the first […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (March 2007):
Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty
Brian Doherty, an editor at Reason magazine and author of This Is Burning Man (a look at the annual desert art festival the size of a temporary city), has now written the book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (February 2007):
The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
I was recently pleased to discover a book that, while far more focused on practical, unphilosophical matters, does as much to angry up the blood and make one want to burn Washington, DC to the ground as any radical philosophical […]
