Reviews

In Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Dutch-American primatologist Frans de Waal brings history, philosophy, and science to bear on this pregnant question.

Well-read intellectuals, Greek philosophy, and atheism are what made America great. So says Matthew Stewart.

This riveting fictionalization of a 19th-century French espionage case illustrates the relation between rationality, integrity, and justice.

Goldacre outs many of the most heinous sources of misleading health-related claims and provides tools to understand and evaluate them.

Bad Blood is a story of good and evil—of liars who bury the truth and the people of intelligence and integrity who keep digging until they find and expose it.

What led a devout Puritan minister to precede Thomas Jefferson in calling for a separation between church and state? John M. Barry answers this question.

Sophie makes readers think in-depth and for themselves the whole way through and continue thinking even after they’ve turned the last page.

D’Souza leaves the actual roots of the American left shrouded. And he paints conservatives as classical liberals. This is D’Souza’s big lie.

RooseveltCare makes clear that resolving the debt crisis by ending the entitlement state is imperative both morally and practically.

William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is an outstanding guide for anyone who writes nonfiction. Whether you write emails or op-eds, family histories or scientific papers, reading and integrating Zinsser’s Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction is sure to prove of immense value.