June 2026 Reading
July 2, 2026
I managed to take the entire month to finish this one book. It was only 265 pages, but it was a trudge to get through
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May 2026 Reading
June 1, 2026
La dottrina del fascismo- Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile (1919-1945) I’m reading this book in Italian. I’ve read plenty of English translations of Fascist ideology,
The Doctrine of Fascism: Fundamental Ideas- Giovanni Gentile
May 6, 2026
This is my translation of Giovanni Gentile’s philosophical grounding for the fascist worldview. This is NOT something I agree with, but I believe that if
April 2026 Reading
April 27, 2026
The Righteous Mind- Jonathan Haidt (2012) This book explores the basis of moral reasoning. The tagline under the title is: Why good people are divided
Objections to Christianity: Religion Divides
April 9, 2026
On the first Saturday of the month, a few of us from our church hit the streets and go door to door to evangelize. We
March 2026 Reading
March 27, 2026
The Essential Marcuse- Marcuse, Feenberg and Leiss (2007) Eleven selected writings by the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Some of these didn’t interest me much at all, so I
Marcuse- Repressive Tolerance (1965)
March 6, 2026
I’m not going to post the notes I took of this essay. The basic outline of Marcuse’s argument: Tolerance is usually a good thing because it
February 2026 Reading
February 28, 2026
Ulysses- James Joyce (1920) I bought this book years ago because it’s on almost every list of classic literature. But I couldn’t understand it, and after
January 2026 Reading
February 3, 2026
Fascism: A Readers Guide- Walter Laqueur (1976) The book is a series of articles talking about various aspects of fascism. The most interesting for me was Zeev Sternhell’s article on
Jesus and Church Protests
January 21, 2026
A tweet from John Pavlovitz said: “Conservative Christians clutching their pearls at people of conscience disrupting their worship gathering to call out hypocrisy and abuses of power
