All Posts

Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom  by Jennifer Zeng, Soho Press, 2006.  The author was sent to  a women’s labor camp in Southern Beijing in 2000 as punishment for being a member of Falun Gong. At this camp she was forced to knit sweaters, deprived of sleep, and tortured by women guards with electric cattle prods.

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam  by Douglas Murray, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017.  Pakistani Rape Gangs People were afraid to call out the Pakistani rape gangs in Oxfordshire for fear of being called a racist. Syriac Christians In 2008 Sylvain Guggenheim pointed out that it was the Syriac Christians  who saved Greek wisdom, not the Muslims. Lack of Assimilation European politicians have put little pressure on immigrants from the Third World to embrace

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Douglas Caplan. Princeton University Press; Updated edition (2019)  Signaling For many students, what they learned in college is used in their future jobs. But for many other students, either they didn’t learn much in college, or what they learned was not useful for gaining or retaining employment. For these latter students, the only value of going to college is that it signals to prosp

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy  by Frédéric Martel; Shaun Whiteside (Translator). Bloomsbury Continuum;...

Colors of the Mountain: A Memoir  by Da Chen, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Trade Paperback Edition, 2001. Escaping Poverty The author was born into a peasant family. He looked forward to a lifetime of backbreaking agricultural work and poverty. However, being intelligent and obtaining a good education enabled him to escape that life, and eventually to escape Communist China and come to the United States. Highly recommended.

Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan, Broadside Books Reprint, 2013.  Great Britain The author asserts that the British and the lands they colonized, most importantly America, are the main promoters of freedom. The author calls this the Anglosphere. Characteristics of the Anglosphere Culture The rule of law Equality before the law Sanctity of contract Private property rights Limited government Representative government Jur

The War of Return The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace  by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, Translated into English by Eylon Levy. St. Martin's Griffin, 2020. Reversing the Nakba Whenever negotiations take place on the two-state solution, the Arabs demand that the “right of return” be part of the deal. What the Arabs mean by the “right of return” is that the Arab refugees displaced by the creation of the state of Isra

Writing is a journey, and every writer needs a map. For aspiring writers, non-fiction books can serve as that map, guiding them through...

In a world overflowing with information, non-fiction books stand out as valuable resources. They educate, inform, and inspire readers....

In a world overflowing with information, non-fiction books stand out as beacons of knowledge and insight. They offer us a chance to...