Books

Lew Rockwell has a great review of Thomas Woods' How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. We enthusiastically agree with every part of the review, including the statement that this book should be in every Catholic home. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken107.html]. Excerpts: > Conditioned early

John Robson has written a nice review of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944). It's not often you get to read about that classic, so we thought Robson's description of the thrust of the book worth re-producing (no link available): > Hayek'

We'd never seen anything like it, and since it pertains to books, we thought it worth posting: How to bind your own book. It's lengthy and it looks kinda hard, but the result is pretty neat. Link [http://www.livejournal.com/users/tobycraig/29223.html]

Lew Rockwell has another favorable review of Tom Woods' The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/chapin3.html]. We're part way through the book, and based on what we've read, we enthusiastically recommend it: > The Politically Incorrect Guide

Here's a fairly interesting review by Os Guiness of Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. It re-hashes a lot of the stuff we hear from other sources, but it's a decent overview. Link [http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?

We earlier reported that general book sales are down. Link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1125/] . But this NYT article [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/books/02book.html?] says they're up: > Sales of general-interest books are thriving, in sharp contrast to recent downturns in other communications and

The widespread discrediting of The Da Vinci Code as pure fiction doesn't matter. Dupes will still be talking about its historicity ten years from now. > Westminster Abbey has issued tour guides with information sheets to help them correct the factual errors in the bestselling novel The Da

ISI Book's book on Bertrand de Jouvenel (part of its excellent Library of Modern Thinkers collection) is coming out soon. George Carey has given it a good review in the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative (no link available). Excerpt: > [In the first chapter of On Power]

The new Gilbert Magazine arrived this week. In the Miscellany of Men Department, John Peterson provides a splendid overview of one of our favorite philosophers, Josef Pieper. No link available. Excerpts: > [Pieper] never used technical language, preferring instead the language of common sense, the language of the people. But