Books

Today you take for granted that salt is cheap and plentiful, but this is only a recent phenomenon. In the past, salt was like petroleum oil in its importance to humanity. This… read more

War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. —Carl von Clausewitz, “On War” I have recently finished reading The Art of War by… read more

Strangers To Oursevles offers a scientific review of what we know about the human unconscious. The information isn’t exactly new so this book will be a review for many of… read more

A French nobleman named Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to study America’s then fifty-year-old democracy. The book that followed, Democracy In America, would soon be known as one of the most important… read more

The following post is sponsored by Samuel Finlay When Samuel Finlay asked ROK to write a post about his military novel Breakfast With The Dirt Cult, we were immediately intrigued. The book… read more

One of the most profoundly insightful books I’ve ever read is The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. In this book Campbell uses myths from around the world… read more

Our very own Quintus Curtius has written a book that unearths old wisdom and presents it logically and clearly in essay form so that men of today can learn from… read more

In A Farewell To Alms, economist Gregory Clark attempts to present the reasons for the industrial revolution taking place and why all of the world’s countries were not equally affected… read more

The following is a compilation of two brief book reviews. Made To Stick This book attempts to deconstruct why some ideas tend to stick (i.e. become viral) by giving you… read more

Who Owns The Future is a book that describes how advancing computer technology is centralizing power and wealth into the hands of those who own a network that has the… read more