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 […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (January 2007):
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre’s a great philosopher and writer yet coy and elliptical enough to be a frickin’ Straussian (I notice he praises Straussian Harry Jaffa at one point, so perhaps he is — he’s a bit of everything else, so why not a Straussian, too?). […]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selections of the Month (December 2006):
Thrill of the Chaste by Dawn Eden
Science- and econ-loving guy that I am, I wouldn’t normally plug a book (aimed at Christian women) about how to avoid premarital sex while navigating the modern dating scene, but it just so happens an ex-girlfriend of mine wrote this and devoted […]
Let me now unveil the first-ever ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (for November 2006), namely:
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
That’s right, it’s the neocons’ bible (well, not counting the Bible), and what better time for me to read it than now, when, some would argue, this book has led by a circuitous, fifty-three-year […]
