I’m composing a piece on my purpose in life, what drives me. As you know, it is family and kids. Books shape my opinions.
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Amazon recently made it impossible to search through my reviews. Fortunately I had links to most of them. Here are books I have reviewed on subjects relating to men, women, society and having kids. Amazon stopped carrying some of them, so they have no links. The Nurture Assumption is out of print. They dropped Sexual Utopia in Power, though you can still read it here.
I try to write thorough reviews, rather like Cliff Notes, so a reader can get the gist of the message before deciding to buy the book. They average two or three pages. Please scan the titles and peruse those that might interest you.
On Genetic Interests, halfway down this list, and Evolution and Ethics are my touchstones. I’ll cover them in the next issue.
Here are the reviews and when they were written
At Our Wits End - Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future, Edward Dutton / Michael Woodley of Menie, 2019
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, Robert Plomin, 2019
The Neuroscience of Intelligence, Richard Haier, 2019
Crumbling Genome: The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans , Alexey Kondrashov, 2019
The Silent Rape of Finland, Edward Dutton, 2019
On Genetic Interests Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, Frank Salter, 2018
Thirty Seven: Essays On Life, Wisdom, And Masculinity, Quintius Curtis, 2018
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, Joseph Henrich, 2018
What Makes Us Girls: And Why It's All Worth It, Brittany Pettibone, 2018
Whiteness: The Original Sin, Jim Goad, 2018
The Past is a Future Country, Ed Dutton, 2022
Sex Differences in Intelligence, Richard Lynn, 2022
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men, Christina Hoff Summers, 2017
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance, Ben Sasse, 2017
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, Camille Paglia, 2017
Male-Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences, David Geary, 2017
Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family, Stewart Friedman, 2017
The Way of Men, Jack Donovan, 2017
The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, James Q. Wilson, 2017
Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Christian Smith, 2017
The Evolution of Beauty- How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us, Richard Prum, 2017
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray, 2017
Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men, Roy F. Baumeister, 2017
No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination, Scott Greer, 2017
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis , Nicholas Eberstadt, 2017
Generation Identity, Marcus Willinger, 2017
A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval, Paul R. Amato, 2016
Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self, Howard Schwartz, 2016 (review pending)
Mother Nature, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, 2016
Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity, Schaffner and Bernstein, 2016
Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation, Travis Rieder, 2016
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century, Ryan Avent, 2016
The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, 2016
Race and Sex Differences in Intelligence and Personality: A Tribute to Richard Lynn at 80 , Helmuth Nyborg, 2016
The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups , Erica Christakis, 2016
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education: Developing Character through a Virtue Ethics Approach, Tony Eaude, 2016
This Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for Love, Kayt Sukel, 2015
The Self-Propelled Advantage: The Parent's Guide to Raising Independent, Motivated Kids Who Learn with Excellence, Joanne Calderwood, 2013
Evolution and Ethics, Sir Arthur Keith, 2012
The Richer Sex, Liz Mundy, 2012
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women, Estelle Freedman, 2011
The Essential Feminist Reader, Estelle Freedman, 2011
Save the Males, Kathleen Parker, 2011
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism, Katie Roiphe, 2011
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding , Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, 2011
Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, Christina Hoff Summers, 2011
Family and Civilization, Carle C. Zimmerman, 2010
Marriage: The Dream That Refuses to Die, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 2010
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality, Judith Rich Harris, 2006
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke, Elizabeth Warren, 2003
The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris, 2003
Hi Graham,
I am a big fan from Australia and found out your blog by reading your reviews on Amazon from the controversial books that you have reviewed. Suffice to say, some of your reviews are obviously excellent but even summarise the points of the book so that one doesn't even need to read the book to have a decent understanding of the points of the book - most of the other reviewers I think agree with me. Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Mark
Why did Amazon take you down?