Nine of my favorite reads from 2019
Tag Archives: History
Favorite Books of 2018
Four of my favorite reads from 2018
A Reason for Optimism
Transitioning from a culture of fear to one of confidence and energy
Favorite Books of 2017
Six of my favorite reads from 2017
The Discontinuities between the Generations in History
A few gems from Sir Herbert Butterfield’s 1971 Rede Lecture at Cambridge University
The Lies of Vietnam
Some thoughts on the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary “The Vietnam War”
Favorite Books of 2016
My favorite five books from the year
Father Joseph’s Folly
Some gems from Aldous Huxley’s “Grey Eminence” (1941)
Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
With all the hubbub about China as of late, I thought it might be worth reading Alexis De Tocqueville’s The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (Penguin: 2008). A number of China Hands say the Party has used this book to inform their approach to domestic stability and harmony.1 I have no idea whether these assertions …
