Finished reading: The Cult of the Saints by Peter Brown 📚Classic though slightly dated.

Finished reading: Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Jonathan I. Israel 📚Exhaustive and thorough!

Finished reading: The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel 📚Neuroscience and free will; very valuable.

Finished reading: All the Kingdoms of the World by 📚Integralist writers need to respond to this book or abandon their views.

Finished reading: The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman 📚 Good for non-specialists!

Finished reading: The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret Jacob 📚Good, but no rival to Peter Gay.

Finished reading: The Crisis of the European Mind by Paul Hazard 📚A but dated but excellent

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Finished reading: Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas 📚Many things I hadn’t known before, particularly on the Japanese side.

Finished reading: There’s No Such Thing as “Business” Ethics by John C. Maxwell 📚Basic but good.

Finished reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚A little too white hat vs black hat, but good.

Finished reading: Britain Against Napoleon by Roger Knight 📚Administrative history, yet interesting!

Finished reading: Self-Made by Tara Isabella Burton 📚

Finished reading: The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Muller 📚

Finished reading: Leisure by Josef Pieper 📚

Finished reading: Calvin by Bruce Gordon 📚

Finished reading: Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy by Michael P. Zuckert & Catherine Zuckert 📚Really wish I’d had this in grad school.

Finished reading: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham 📚2nd edition, with three added chapters responding to criticism. An important book!

Finished reading: Cities and Thrones and Powers by Stephen R. L. Clark 📚A little out there in some respects, but happy to see something attentive to political aspects of Plotinus.

Finished reading: Choosing Freedom by Karen Stohr 📚Wouldn’t use in a class, but good popular introduction.

Finished reading: Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers by Geoffrey M. Vaughan 📚Happy to recommend to any/all with an interest in these topics.

Wonderful treatment for Holy Saturday – A Clerk of Oxford: ‘Open wæs þæt eorðærn’: the Harrowing of Hell

It’s possible to get a great deal of reading done in a laundromat.

Very few things as anticlimactic as the afternoon before a multi-day vacation starts.

Finished reading: Index, a History of The by Dennis Duncan 📚More interesting than it sounds!