What I'm Reading Now

In the past three weeks, here are the books I've ordered, mostly from Amazon:

Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

Daniel Dennett, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

John Searle, Mind, Language, and Society: Philosophy in the Real World

Stephen Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism

David G. Myers, Pursuit of Happiness

Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom

Charles Murray, In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government

D.G. Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation

Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith

Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Douglas Wilson, The Case for Classical Christian Education

Aristotle, Politics

Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Ken Craycraft, The American Myth of Religious Freedom

J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics

Mark Gavreau Judge, If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture

John Lawlor, C.S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections

Keith Robertson, The Money Machine

Robert McCloskey, Centerburg Tales


I've got to control myself with all this book-buying. Otherwise, I won't have any time to keep up with all the latest news about the Schwarzeneggar administration, the new TV season, celebrity divorces, etc., etc., not to mention all the even more important questions being addressed by other bloggers, such as whether it was the White House or the Navy that hung a sign saying "Mission Accomplished," or what Howard Dean meant when he called himself a "metrosexual."