Monthly Archives: December 2018

Book Review: Mastering Positional Chess

Posted on December 23, 2018 by nathanalbright

Mastering Positional Chess:  Practical Lessons Of A Junior World Champion, by Daniel Naroditsky This is the sort of book that one can approach with different attitudes.  On the one hand, as the youngest person to write a book about chess, … Continue reading →

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My Country Did Not Send Me 9,000 Miles To Start The Race; My Country Sent Me 9,000 Miles To Finish The Race

Posted on December 22, 2018 by nathanalbright

This evening we had a Bible Study to begin the Northwest Family Weekend here in sunny Portland, Oregon, and the theme this year is “Steadfast To The End,” which was also (not coincidentally) the subject of the Bible Study tonight.  … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Road To Rescue: The Untold Story Of Schindler’s List

Posted on December 22, 2018 by nathanalbright

The Road To Rescue:  The Untold Story Of Schindler’s List, by Mietek Pemper This book is a fascinating example of the sort of tell-all memoir that seeks to correct misunderstandings in the aftermath of something that is culturally significant, namely … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Boy On The Wooden Box

Posted on December 22, 2018 by nathanalbright

The Boy On The Wooden Box:  How The Impossible Became Possible…On Shindler’s List:  A Memoir, by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran & Elisabeth B. Leyson This book is an excellent example of a work that exists in the repercussions … Continue reading →

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Good Germans: Bonhoeffer, Schindler, And The Abwehr Connection

Posted on December 21, 2018 by nathanalbright

It is unclear whether they ever met.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a serious-minded Lutheran minister active in the ecumenical movement and a man whose idealism led him to steadfastly oppose Hitler’s anti-Jewish rhetoric and even to be involved in American race … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Animal Architecture

Posted on December 21, 2018 by nathanalbright

Animal Architecture, by Ingo Arndt, text by Jürgen Tautz There is a deep and fatal inconsistency in this book, and it demonstrates something larger and more troubling at the problems of science as it relates to design.  On the one … Continue reading →

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Book Review: As Eve Said To The Serpent

Posted on December 21, 2018 by nathanalbright

As Eve Said To The Serpent:  On Landscape, Gender, And Art, by Rebecca Solnit One of the more intriguing aspects of reading material from Rebecca Solnit is that one knows that it will be reliably rubbish [1].  It hardly matters … Continue reading →

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This War Of Ours Is Never Done

Posted on December 20, 2018 by nathanalbright

One of the illusions of ordinary life is that good and evil are to be found entire, that there are some people that are all good and others that are all evil, that one can join causes and have no … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Code Of Jewish Ethics: Volume I: You Shall Be Holy

Posted on December 20, 2018 by nathanalbright

A Code Of Jewish Ethics:  Volume I:  You Shall Be Holy, by Joseph Teluskhin While I wouldn’t consider my reading of this book an example of hate-reading, I read this book knowing that my thoughts on it would be somewhat … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ten Commandments Of Character

Posted on December 20, 2018 by nathanalbright

The Ten Commandments Of Character:  Essential Advice For Living An Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life, by Joseph Telushkin This author provides about 300 pages of advice column material that is devoted around ten ethical principles that are clearly meant to parallel … Continue reading →

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