Reviews
Reasonable: you know it when you see it?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Maintenance and the Making of Civilization
Elizabeth Stice reviews Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by Stewart Brand (Stripe Press, 2025)
Don’t get too loose with it
Elizabeth Stice reviews Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better by David Epstein (Riverhead Books, 2026)
Class Dismissed
Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York by Dylan Gottlieb (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Getting Beyond Grit
Elizabeth Stice reviews Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026)
“The Terminator” as non-fiction
Christian McNamara reviews If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)
From the Stacks: Islands and Beaches
From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980)
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