Genius, hubris, tragedy
Thoughts on Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on the anniversary of the bombing.
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An occasional series of posts with links and short descriptions to books and articles of interest.
From the bookshelf: July 2023
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from July 2023.
Destroying what is beautiful
The second in Donna Leon’s long-running Commissario Guio Brunetti mystery series.
You can learn a lot by reading the plaques
You learn a lot of fun facts if you read the plaques on the highway of life.
From the bookshelf: June 2023
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from June 2023.
Legitimacy, once lost, is hard to reclaim
Our extremist Supreme Court is a train wreck fifty years in the making.
The tyranny of binary choice
Think expansively about the type of world we want instead of just bickering over the directions.
The dark underworld of the soul
Come and explore a modern, sexy, complex crime novel by a Norwegian master of the genre.
Family, myth, and identity
A young Native American writer’s powerful push against the feeling of extinction happening in real time.
Becoming receptive to what lies all around us
A sense of wonder leads to something deeper, lasting and significant where we are “never weary of life.”
MORE TO COME... 