A History of Warfare
By John Keegan
Waxing philosophical about war is nearly as old as war itself. Sun Tzu, Winston Churchill, Thucydides, Shakespeare; among these...
Sakhalin Island
By Anton Chekhov
Earlier, during my studies, I read a lot of Russian classical literature, including the works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Chekhov is...
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop
By Kevin O'Rourke
Middle England
By Jonathan Coe
A little over a year ago, back when such things...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
By Fareed Zakaria
“Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” by Fareed Zakaria was named Amazon’s Best Book of October 2020,...
Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
An interview by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
I’ve read approximately 9 million of the 468 million presidential election post-mortems, which...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By Ben Hubbard
This month I decided to read Ben Hubbard’s much-anticipated book about one of Saudi Arabia’s...
Culture Shock: Surviving Five Generations in One Workplace
By Joanna Dodd Massey
Five generations now occupy the U.S. workforce. That means at any given time, there...