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Book Review | The Hero Code
The Hero Code written by William McRaven is reviewed by Greg McNeilly.
Greg McNeilly
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Book Review | 2034
2034: A Novel of the Next World War | Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis, Penguin Press, p320. This is a must-read even for those...
Greg McNeilly
Jun 25, 20211 min read
Book Review | 33 Questions About American History
33 QUESTIONS ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY: You're Not Supposed to Ask | Thomas E. Woods, Three River Press, 306p. Did the Founding Fathers...
Greg McNeilly
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Book Review | The Unaborted Socrates
THE UNABORTED SOCRATES: A Dramatic Debate On the Issues Surrounding Abortion | Peter Kreeft It reads like a script; Kreeft provides a...
Greg McNeilly
Mar 27, 20211 min read
Book Review | Inbetween The World And Me + We Were Eight Years In Power
IN BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME (2015) & WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER (2017) | Ta-Nehisi Coates. Both books by Ta-Nehisi Coates were...
Greg McNeilly
Mar 23, 20211 min read
Book Review | First Principles
FIRST PRINCIPLES: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans And How it Shaped Our Country | Thomas Ricks, Harper,...
Greg McNeilly
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Book Review | Cynical Theories
CYNICAL THEORIES: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity | Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay,...
Greg McNeilly
Jan 28, 20212 min read
Book Review | The Night of the January 16th
THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH | A play Ayn Rand, World Publishing, p125. This stage play is a courtroom drama depicting the charges of...
Greg McNeilly
Jan 15, 20211 min read
Book Review | Undeniable
UNDENIABLE: Evolution and the Science of Creation | Bill Nye, St. Martin's Press, 320p (Kindle version).
Undeniable is a quick survey...
Greg McNeilly
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Book Review | Divided We Fall
DIVIDED WE FALL: America’s succession threat and How to Restore our Nation | David French, St. Martin’s Press, p260. French argues the...
Greg McNeilly
Nov 21, 20202 min read


Book Review | Lives of the Stoics
Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday is reviewed by Greg McNeilly.
Greg McNeilly
Nov 11, 20201 min read
Book Review | Blueprint
Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are | Robert Plomin, MIT Press, p261. With a slightly different viewpoint than "She Has Her Mother's...
Greg McNeilly
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Book Review | Ten Global Trends
TEN GLOBAL TENDS: Every Smart Person Should Know & many others you will find interesting | Ronald Bailey & Marian Tupy, Cato Institute,...
Greg McNeilly
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Book Review | Calling Bullshit
CALLING BULLSHIT: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World | Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West, Random House, p318. An evolutionary...
Greg McNeilly
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Book Review | The Rise & Fall of Dinosaurs
THE RISE & FALL OF DINOSAURS: A New History of a Lost World | Steve Brusatte, Harper Collins, 404p. If it weren’t for toddler’s...
Greg McNeilly
Sep 23, 20202 min read
Book Review | Cribsheet
CRIBSHEET: a data-driven guide to better, more relaxed parenting, from birth to preschool | Emily Oster, Penguin Books, p322. An...
Greg McNeilly
Sep 10, 20201 min read
Book Review | The Alchemist & Warrior of Light
THE ALCHEMIST Paulo Coelho, Harper One, p182. Celebrating its 30th year in print, with over 150 million copies sold, made popular in...
Greg McNeilly
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Book Review | She Has Her Mother's Laugh
SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH | by Carl Zimmer, Dutton Press, 672p. Zimmer, an NYT science columnist, pens an extraordinary tour de...
Greg McNeilly
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Book Review | The Swerve
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt, W.W. Norton, 365p. An unusual history read follows bibliophile and Papal...
Greg McNeilly
Aug 7, 20201 min read
Book Review | White Fragility
WHITE FRAGILITY: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism Robin DiAngelo, Bacon Press, 169p. Picking up this writing was...
Greg McNeilly
Jul 31, 20201 min read
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