Doubt the Experts

I apologize for moving so slowly in this book. Before long, I will finish it and will take a break before continuing on the second volume. B...

Russell's favorite author was Joseph Conrad, whom he admired for his depictions of loneliness and the chaos that lies in the backgrounds...

During 1912 and 1913, Russell's relationships with Ottoline Morrell and Ludwig Wittgenstein evolved. I think that he was confused by bot...

Since it looks as if the U.S. presidential election has been decided in favor of Joe Biden, and I've been wasting so much time following...

 1911 was a busy year for Russell. He lectured at Trinity College, became president of The Aristotelian Society, wrote essays on popular phi...

Russell's relationship with Alys deteriorated continuously during the early 1900's. He told her that he didn't love her, but tha...

Bertrand and Alys continued their honeymoon throughout Europe for several months and returned to England in the summer of 1895. Russell had ...

One of the benefits of Russell's acquaintance with Whitehead was his nomination to the Apostles, the Cambridge debating society reserved...

I'm getting off to a very slow start on this biography by Ray Monk. That isn't because I dislike it, but because I go through period...

I had been reading a book on AI that seemed promising at first, but the further I got into it the methodology seemed inappropriate. The auth...

In some respects, this summer feels like winter. The coronavirus restricts social activity, and the high temperatures keep us indoors in a m...

I finally got around to finishing the book. After philosophy, Bouvard and Pécuchet become interested in religion. Bouvard, who is more or le...

I'm not finding this novel exceptionally exciting, though, to some extent, it is satisfying at least in the sense that French culture, i...

I'm in my usual summer lull, in which I don't read much, and have chosen this novel by Gustave Flaubert because, for literature, it ...

I finished reading Mary Trump's book and didn't find it enlightening at all. From reading it, you would never know that she is a Ph....

I've been reading Carl Zuckmayer's autobiography, A Part of Myself , which was published in 1966, to fill in some of the details lef...

This memoir, first published in Germany in 1949, covers the lives of Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her family while they lived in Vermont durin...

With the help of the coronavirus, I'm having an unusually dull summer. So far, Vermont, which has an elderly population compared to most...

As expected, I finished the book. Part Four includes the chapters "Borders and Property: The Construction of Equality," "Brah...

I am finding that the book is structurally ill-conceived and far too long for the abbreviated conclusions that Piketty is likely to reach in...