Harry Shannon
My cousin Henry told me about an online talk last week by David Rooney, a British historian. Rooney has just written a book called “About time: A history of civilization in twelve clocks.” The talk was very nicely done; I enjoyed it a lot. Rooney used each clock to illustrate a one-word theme – e.g., order, virtue, empires, …
Category: books
Utopia for Realists
Harry Shannon
One of the most interesting books I’ve read lately is Utopia for Realists by the Dutch writer
Rutger Bregman. I’m not going to give
you a long review or description; just enough, I hope, to get you to read it.
Depending on where you look, the subtitles are
different. The one that gives away the
big themes of the…