BOOK BY DAN AREL PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2016 144 PP. When Kentucky’s tourism board approved an $18 million tax incentive for Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter theme park and exhibit, many gawked. None more than Dan Arel,... Read More

BOOK BY LESLEY HAZELTON RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2016 224 PP. If you want to get a spirited argument started among atheists, ask how we like to be identified—atheist, freethinker, skeptic, humanist, secular, bright—some will embrace all... Read More

BOOK BY STEPHEN S. COHEN AND J. BRADFORD DELONG HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW PRESS, 2016 240 PP.; $28.00 Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy, by Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong,... Read More

BOOK BY DALE DEBAKCSY HUMANIST PRESS, 2016 122 PP.; $24.99 The conceit from which The Cartoon History of Humanism, Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment launches is as funny as it is paradoxical. In fact, its... Read More

BOOK BY GEORGE LAKEY MELVILLE HOUSE, 2016 304 PP.; $26.99 Today, a birth lottery winner (or a chooser behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance) would likely end up not as a US billionaire’s child (much... Read More

BOOK BY WYNNE LEGROW 380 PP.; $19.95 A white doctor in the rural South is presumed to be a Republican and a Christian. Wynne LeGrow, a hard-working doctor in Emporia, Virginia, was neither, but he... Read More

BOOK BY DARREN E. GREM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 304 PP; $34.95 Philip Roth’s 1971 novel Our Gang mocks Richard Nixon and his cabinet (Kissinger, Agnew, et al.) for their knavish attitude toward both the... Read More