21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. Spiegel and Grau, 2018. Hardcover, 400 pages, $28. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant historian teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His 2015 bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History...
Enlightenment Now. The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker. Viking, 2018. Hardcover, 556 pages. $35. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks Steven Pinker’s writing is intriguing. Just about everything he says is half right and half wrong. In this and...
New York friends, join @UBookman and guest speaker Dr. Dermot Quinn for a memorial lecture in honor of Gerald Russello, longtime editor of the University Boookman on November 15, at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus: https://ow.ly/VaRh50PRlHF
"[P]roductivity is not the highest good. The highest good is love. That is the true measure of success." -- Elizabeth Bittner reviews Margarita Mooney Suarez's THE WOUNDS OF BEAUTY. @ClunyMedia