Back from vacation.
It was a good one. I have a couple of books to recommend since I’ve been gone.
Although Paul Auster let his name get tied up with that Mumia thing, he is still a writer worth reading. His latest, The Book of Illusions is about par for the course, well written and enjoyably melodramatic. One complaint: The Chekov gun on the wall (or in this case, in the freezer) was never really fired.
The second recommendation is for Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate.” I read and enjoyed his previous books The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, and figured that he had said about all he had to say. That was confirmed for me with Words and Rules. So I was hesitant about buying the Blank Slate.
I was wrong. The book is really a tour de force, tying together advances and themes from linguistics, neuroscience, evolution, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, politics, religion and art. Mostly, he seems to say that new developments in the study of humans and human nature, taken together, tend to be more in line with conservative worldviews than with a liberal, utopian position. He kind of falls victim to his own arguments towards the end of the book, but all in all it is highly recommended.
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