Factfulness – Hans Rosling
The entire focus of this book is on demonstrating through publicly available statistical data that the condition of the world is much better than people think; further, that it is continuing to improve.
International Relations
Discussion of America’s national security interests and well as rights and responsibility in the world community
Book Review Number 43
The SS officer’s Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi – Daniel Lee
Most histories of the Third Reich focus on its senior leadership. This book, on the other hand, is the story of one of the tens of thousands of lower level mostly anonymous SS officers;
Book Review Number 40
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming – David Wallace-Wells
Wallace-Wells is an American journalist who is a contributing writer and deputy editor for New York Magazine. He also writes for the Guardian.
Book Review Number 35
The Green New Deal – Jeremy Rifkin
The author defines the concept of the proposed Green New Deal in fairly specific terms. He makes the case that whether politicians like it or not market forces are already making it happen, though not fast enough. He calls this epoch “The Third industrial Revolution” and says it will fundamentally change humanity.
Book Review Number 33
What Would the Founders Do? – Richard Brookhiser
The author poses a series of contemporary political questions and then attempts to discern how the founding fathers might have responded.
Trump is Marching Us Toward War
Back in the olden days (like before 2017) we listened when the President spoke. If he talked about military actions, war, or national security we knew he was telling us the truth as he understood it.
My Credo – National Immigration Policy
Immigration is likely to be one of the major issues of the 2020 presidential election. Therefore, I am offering my view of a framework for rational discussion/debate on a workable national immigration policy. This is not intended to be a final plan but only a strategic concept which needs to be more fully developed and promoted.
Book Review Number 29
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital – Kimberly Clausing
The author is Professor of Economics at Reed College. She is one of the nations leading expert on taxation of multinational corporations. In this book she promotes the value of international trade, liberal immigration, and free flow of global capital.
Book Review Number 27
Beyond the Call – Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield
This is a compelling true story of an American World War II hero who laid his life on the line in covert operations to bring his fellow soldiers as well as other men and women home to safety and freedom.
Book Review Number 25
To Build a Better World – Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice
This book is essentially a review of European political history between 1988 and 1992. It deals with the collapse of the Soviet Union, establishment of the European Union, unification of Germany, and the associated political crisis management by the US and European governments.
Black, White, or Gray?? 