What Book Are You Currently Reading? (2.0.)

[Ishan]

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've recently read Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night (and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, for the first time) and Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Both are novels characterized by a high level of moral seriousness and I would cheerfully recommend the pair of them, though would note that, despite the apparent framing, Gaudy Night is not a detective novel in the conventional sense at all.

[Brother Jonathan]

I've been reading Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism. I don't really agree with all or most of it, but it is interesting. He does seem to present his ideas in a less polemical form then he tends to online, which I guess is only to be expected, but every now and again that tendency shows through, particularly when Vermeule is railing against Libertarians.

[HillGoose]

I've become obsessed with game theory recently and it's created an interest in nuclear strategy, so I'm currently reading "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn.

Great read, a little dated but still worth it.

[Benjamin Frank]

Started reading Freakonomics again, mostly to reply to the podcast If Books Could Kill.

What got me about the 10 minutes of their podcast on Freakonomics that I've listened to so far was that they claimed to be against 'airplane books' that are meant to seem academic and smart but that really just promote lazy thinking or anti intellectualism, but in the 10 minutes, they did nothing but make sophomoric comments and referred to the book as 'neoliberal' which could not be more lazy in thinking or anti intellectual.