Category Archives: Book Review

The Good American

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

I’ve never met Bob Gersony. That probably doesn’t seem strange to you. But it is to me. Gersony was a humanitarian, and “The Good American” is his story. It is not an epic story, despite the title. There was nothing … Continue reading →

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The Future is American

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

The future will be nothing like the past. That is the contention of “The Great Reversal” by Charles Goodheart. Demographic decline and the drying up of the great surge of labor product of the urbanization in China and the freeing … Continue reading →

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A Wrinkle in Time

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

It wasn’t so long ago that publishers were willing to invest in tremendous works of literature for young minds that marry the great truths of our world with the faith that makes them work. The laws of gravity and entropy, … Continue reading →

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The Great Reversal

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

The great reversal is coming. Is, in fact, already here. “The future will be nothing like the past” is the contention of Charles Goodhart in his and Manoj Pradhan’s extraordinary book. Nothing like the past. The great deflation is over; … Continue reading →

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La Argentina Despues de la Tormenta – Mis Comentarios

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

El punto clave creo de este libro de Francisco Santibanes, un pensador Argentino, es que la Argentina carece de una vision estrategica de largo plazo para fomentar su desarrollo y tambien fortalezer su posicion en un mundo cada dia mas … Continue reading →

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“Life Among the English” – A Review

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

This was a funny little book. It was not a work of academic scholarship, nor was it a popularization, novelesque approach to telling about the development of England as a social and political entity. It was more like a pamphlet … Continue reading →

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“Prisoners of Geography” – A Review

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

“Post Cold War” America, or maybe “globalist” America likes to believe that it has conquered the old tyranny of geography. Olden thoughts meant more for days when it took months to reach America by sea, when communication across the great … Continue reading →

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Borges

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

Writers love stories about other writers. “A Moveable Feast” or “The Warmest Country“; the tales of significance and its paucity by others who – like themselves – search for that unique brand of immortality. So a story about a writer … Continue reading →

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“Going Abroad” by Rose Macaulay

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

So I recently finished “Towers of Trebizond”, which was a masterpiece. So good that I immediately went on AbeBooks and bought another four books by Rose Macaulay. To see if all her work compares to her masterpiece. Alas, in this … Continue reading →

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Towers of Trebizond

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

This is how Rose Macaulay described the Black Sea in her masterpiece “Towers of Trebizond”, a: “…long strange, frightening, and romantic drama for which the Black Sea and its high forested shores seemed to me to be the stage. Some … Continue reading →

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