Donald Matheson MacLean’s Brain Trauma Economics is a thorough look at tariffs as government-imposed taxes on imports meant to protect domestic industries, citing historical examples like Britain’s Navigation Acts and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. MacLean details tariffs’ roles in raising consumer prices and provoking retaliation, illustrated...

With a GDP of approximately $27.360 trillion as of 2024, it is still a wonder how a part of America’s population still lives in abject poverty, some working low-paying jobs that demand almost double the hours of a regular work week. But then, is it...

Backyard Politics: A Psychological Understanding of Today's Political and Social Divide by Craig B. Wiener is an analytical exploration of contemporary society's ideological rifts. Through the lens of two archetypal perspectives—the "Protectors," who prioritize systemic change and external remediation, and the "Promoters," who champion individual...

Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War’s End by Barry L Stoddard is a non-fiction drama set against the backdrop of the Cold War. The story is about an American start-up forging a secret deal to place American scientific...

Author and scholar Conrad B. Quintyn weaves together a thorough representation of biological modification, its positives, and its potential for abuse in the non-fiction scientific academic book Biotechnology: Scientific Advancement Versus Public Safety. Ethical ramifications are the primary focus in Quintyn's work as he provides...

Building High-Trust CommUNITY argues that America's conflicts result from a distrust in society and politics. It begins by examining people and trust in a historical context covering the period from Abraham Lincoln to the COVID pandemic. The book reviews trust at an individual level and...

Brigadier Mokhtar Karim: An Autobiography by Ayesha Majid and Brigadier Mokhtar Karim begins with a childhood characterized by several relocations - a consequence of his father's career as a medical officer. He enrolls at the Royal Indian Military College, but as graduation nears, his future...

Big Mike, Uncle Dan, and Me: How I Beat 20th Century New York State's Most Corrupt Political Machine by Dr. Paul Van Buskirk is a political memoir that captures a strong moment in US politics - how a college professor and engineer beat the odds...

Bellwether Blues: A Conservative Awakening of the Millennial Soul by Jonathan R Jakubowski is a spellbinding book that combines political and social commentary with personal stories to demonstrate how millennial voters, who have been out of reach to conservatives, are shifting their choices from the...

Blogging the Plague: Camus, Covid-19, and the Current Chaos by Peter Vernezze examines current-day COVID-19 dynamics through the lens of Albert Camus' 1947 classic novel, The Plague, about a small town in Algeria that is devastated by a plague transmitted from animals to humans. During...