I just finished reading The Forgotten Founding Father, Joshua Kendall’s biography of Noah Webster. Preceding President Trump’s “America First” campaign by some 230 years, Webster was an adamant supporter of breaking from European influence and promoting development of resources within … Continue reading →
A little bit late, but Happy New Year! I just finished reading Hasia Diner’s book Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place In America. For several decades around the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, many … Continue reading →
Over the recent holiday season, I read Dianne Ashton’s Hanukkah in America, which chronicles the history and development of Hanukkah (mainly in the United States) from its origins over 2000 years ago up through nearly present day. For most of … Continue reading →
Wanting to learn more about our new president, I just finished reading The Art of the Deal. The book recounts stories of several business projects he had worked on from the 1970s into the mid-1980s, ranging from low-income housing in … Continue reading →
I just finished reading Alexandra Horowitz’s book, Inside of a Dog, an easy-going look at what behavioral and cognitive psychology can tell us about how dogs perceive the world. Many questions I had about the behavior of my own dog … Continue reading →