The Never-Ending Threat of Utopia
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin. Encounter Books, 2020. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price Feudal times are here again. This is a thesis Joel Kotkin hammers to a fine point in The Coming of...
Effing the Ineffable
Music as an Art by Roger Scruton. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018. Hardcover, 272 pages, $32. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price In Music as an Art, the late Roger Scruton seeks to defend Western high culture by defending its summit, classical music. It was a defense Scruton...
A pleasure to review @joldmcginn's fine book, WHY DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE RICH.
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/how-should-we-think-about-inequality/
With thanks to my man, @lsheahan, who is giving @ubookman some "oomph" these days.
The radical materialist culture of the last two hundred years, equally common to both the Communist East and the capitalist West, has brought in its wake a high degree of material and technological advancement, with many obvious benefits for mankind. - William Scott on Aleksandr