Thinking Out Aloud

The late C. A. Tripp’s The Homosexual Matrix was one of the first publications to treat homosexuality in a matter-of-fact way. Tripp showed...

I have done a moderate amount of reading on or related to the Pirenne thesis . Including Henri Pirenne's posthumous work Mohammed and...

George Simon’s In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People is a clearly written analysis of covert-aggressi...

Elaine Pagels’ book Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas is far more about the development of the notion of Christian orthodoxy than ...

Roger Collins’ Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 is a fine narrative history of the transition from late antiquity to the medieval. I enjoyed...

In the October 2009 issue of Quadrant , Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen, Director, Institute for Judaism and Civilization —which advocates basing civ...

A review essay by William Percy and Warren Johannsen on Homosexuals and the Holocaust provides a lot of useful information and insight into...

The Celluloid Closet is an excellent documentary about the history of Hollywood's portrayals of gays and lesbians. It is the sort of do...

(This continues my review of Ira Lapidus’s A History of Islamic Societies . The first part is in my previous post .) Lapidus's work is s...

Ira Lapidus’s A History of Islamic Societies has become a contemporary classic history. Originally published in 1988, with a second edition...

I have a guest post at skepticlawyer elaborating how Rictor Norton gets stuck into Foucault and some related matters.

An older and wiser friend lent me The Pocket Psycho , a distillation of author John Clarke’s Working with Monsters (which I haven’t read). ...

The business has suffered from a drop in marketing efforts: October was very busy but November is relatively light, so income may be a bit t...

That the Middle East is a region subject to regular conquest (both external and internal) has long seemed to me to be crucial to understandi...