by zen | Jul 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Buda’s wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis An Enemy we Created by Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn A Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade The Power of Pull: How Small...
by zen | Jun 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson Over at Fred Leland’s LESC blog, friend of ZP, Major Don Vandergriff has spot-on reviewed the...
by zen | Mar 19, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy by Donald Kagan Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al Qaeda by John Keegan Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter I spent...
by zen | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski Recent cyber problems here at ZP (as well as work commitments) have left me with an enormous backlog of book-related posts and reviews with which to wade through this month, including...
by zen | Dec 16, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] As the holiday season is here, I thought it would be amusing between now and Christmas to do a series of posts on books by people who have, in some fashion, been friends of ZP by supporting us with links, guest-posts,...
