Pedro L. Gonzalez Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Pedro L. Gonzalez

High West labels remind me of one specific passage from Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” where he describes how California’s beauty is best appreciated from afar and in moderation The artwork that accompanies it resembles High West branding, too https://t.co/JdEs8iXMvF

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Zuckerberg is training, reading "Sun and Steel," studying the blade, eating raw eggs, growing more powerful by the day https://t.co/kczYUGuJoN

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I liked "The Place Beyond the Pines" maybe more than I should have because its themes reminded me of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" https://t.co/b6L9k14aI2

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Here's Rollins at a criminal justice and policing reform summit hosted by the Charles Koch Institute and Charles Koch Foundation in November 2015, where she championed the coming soft-on-crime revolution. Trump gave her a platform to push these ideas. 2/ https://t.co/Zz59ZtSMwG

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Meet Sam Francis: philosopher king of the radical right. In 2017, David Brooks wrote in The New York Times that there’s “very little Donald Trump has done or said that Francis didn’t champion a quarter century ago.” https://t.co/UtAyuyN0cy

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The collection of magazine stories in Tucker Carlson’s “The Long Slide” are a lot of fun, which is something important missing from magazine writing these days https://t.co/1XFlKbtJ3Y

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Christopher Caldwell wrote in The Age of Entitlement that MLK Day signified the beginning of our national shame. It serves as an annual reminder of America as an evil country, and of the shame white people should feel. It also symbolized the dawn of a new regime…

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My upcoming April column for @ChroniclesMag is about how the most violent period in North America was before the arrival of Europeans and how indigens exterminated various animals and helped almost drive bison to extinction This book and “The Ecological Indian” were helpful https://t.co/GNbdeS92ye

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In 1983, a suicide bomber killed more than 300 service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon. It was the U.S.’s first-ever combat operation in the Middle East, and we lost lost over 200 Americans in an instant. Excerpts from “Warrior Soul” by Chuck Pfarrer, a SEAL who… https://t.co/tOYLRgrBvQ https://t.co/2nqGn1R0m7

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From “The Culture Transplant” by Garett Jones on how migrants make economies they move to like the ones the left behind, in part, due to culture, which economists have seemingly overlooked on purpose. Cato Institute hardest hit. https://t.co/842KKS4gNF https://t.co/lHHzmcCoGY