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Three Books With Some Variation of the Word “Fly” in the Title
“Gun Runner” doesn’t have “fly” in the title. but they’re not “running” guns, they're flying guns through interstellar space, so it really should.
Feb 22
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R.W. Richey
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HeartMath Solution - A Sugary Pseudoscience Soufflé
Come for the unreplicatable science, stay for the promise of a planetary heart beating out peace for a thousand years.
Feb 18
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R.W. Richey
4
3
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A Series of Unfortunate Events
A book full of potential comparisons to our own day for the motivated, and strangely removed from our own day if you're really going to be honest about…
Feb 11
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R.W. Richey
6
2
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Radical Markets - I Mean Really Radical
Policy proposals from the White Queen. (It’s a Lewis Carroll reference. No, I’m not talking about the Mad Hatter or the Red Queen. It’s from “Through…
Feb 6
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R.W. Richey
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Gemini Goes Insane — How Should I Update? [Essay]
One part documentation of a strange AI hallucination. One part panic about whether I’ll be put out of business by AI.
Feb 4
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R.W. Richey
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4
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January 2026
Goliath's Curse (and the Agents of Doom!)
Using the Stone of Democracy to Slay the Goliath of Inequality
Jan 30
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R.W. Richey
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Knowing Our Limits - Epistemology Without Bayes
I was promised useful stories to assist me in a quest for justified belief. Instead I got a lesson in the limits of expertise. Unfortunately it was the…
Jan 28
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R.W. Richey
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7
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A YA Series, a First Contact Novel, and a Startup Book Walk Into a Bar—Pursued by Wolves
The wolves help in the Westmarkian revolution, are domesticated by the aliens, and turn the startup into a unicorn, which they promptly devour.
Jan 18
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R.W. Richey
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The Origin of Politics - Kibbutzim, Chimps, and Children
Would you like some genetics in your politics?
Jan 16
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R.W. Richey
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A Case for Latter-Day Christianity - (i.e. A Case for the Christianity of Mormons)
I feel like I should make some clever connection between this book and the discussion which raged about the Shroud of Turin, but nothing occurs to me.
Jan 11
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R.W. Richey
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12
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Taking Religion Seriously - Can You Get to Belief Purely Through Reason?
In which I mostly talk about the Shroud of Turin. Murray only spends seven pages on the it, so my review is not comprehensive. Actually, never mind…
Jan 9
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R.W. Richey
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Children of Mars - Sid Meier's Civilization Lied
Back when Rome was just one Italian settlement out of many, but a settlement with a dream!
Jan 7
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R.W. Richey
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