Mark A. Bucknam

Mind-blowing, Compelling, and Persuasive

Revisado: 12-09-24

This book takes a potentially complex topic and builds an easily understandable and compelling case for intelligent design. Through a building block approach, ample use of analogies, and quality diagrams in a PDF supplement, Stephen Meyer guides his reader/listener to an understanding of the science of intelligent design. Meyer does not refute Darwinism so much as explain the severe limits and inadequacies of random, unguided chance and evolution to account for to him for the origins of life. I cannot wait to read his subsequent book—Darwin’s Doubts!

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Essential Reading

Revisado: 07-28-24

Schweitzer presents a compelling and superbly documented case detailing the war Beijing is waging against America. Disturbingly, too many politicians and Washington bureaucrats are complicit in China’s war against the United States. Many of those politicians and bureaucrats have financial interests at stake in China. So Beijing gets away with pushing fentanyl, illegal weapons, subversive social media, propaganda, and deadly pathogens into our communities and homes. A must read for all Americans.

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Chesterton’s Inimitable Style

Revisado: 06-01-24

So much more than a wonderful introduction to the life and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Chesterton compares and contrasts Aquinas with St. Francis of Assisi, places Aquinas’s philosophy among other great philosophers ancient and modern, and juxtaposes Aquinas with St. Augustine. Chesterton’s erudition and inimitable style pour forth, and the reading by Guy Bethell seems a perfect fit.

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Best book on Crises in Suez and Hungary 1956

Revisado: 04-20-24

The story is skillfully told from multiple perspectives—detailing views from Washington, London, Paris, Moscow, Cairo,Tel Aviv, and Budapest and weaving together accounts from political leaders, their political opponents, career diplomats, intelligence officers, journalists, and the military—participants and firsthand observers. Amazingly well done. Reads like a novel but is solid history with notes to back up every twist and turn of the story. Best single volume comprehensive account of a major inflection point in 20th century world affairs.

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Serious. Clear. Compelling.

Revisado: 03-12-24

The Art of Statistics is a powerful yet accessible exploration of the vitally important topics of understanding, using, and explaining statistics. Recommended for anyone but especially those involved in hard sciences, social sciences, policy making, and reporting on our world.

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Factual, and must read/listen for all American citizens

Revisado: 12-29-23

Julie Kelly’s revelations are true and verifiable. They blow up the prevailing narrative in the legacy media. It is frightening what is happening within the US Justice Department, and the FBI. One only hopes the full truth will come out sooner rather than later. January 6 was not an insurrection, it was the left’s burning of the Reichstag.

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Serious, Honest, and Rigorous

Revisado: 12-09-23

This book is ideal for anyone interested in physics, and especially for those with some science background who want more than the glib and shallow nonsense that usually finds its way onto television or into print media. The author takes a critical but fair look at the state of physics today. Some of the math references went over my head but even those were presented in a way that allowed the reader/listener to follow Dr. Hossenfelder’s argument. Suspect this is a book I’ll read again and cite.

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Expertly informed, and could not be more timely

Revisado: 10-02-23

General Spalding’s book provides essential insight into the Chinese Communist Party’s unrestricted warfare against the United States. After exposing the threat, using the words of a couple of lieutenant colonels from China’s military, the book offers realistic proposals for how America could win its struggle against the People’s Republic of China.

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Powerful, Erudite, and Compelling

Revisado: 03-19-23

This book is timeless. It captures the essence of some of Popper’s other famous works (e.g., on The Poverty of Historicism and The Logic of Scientific Discovery). Its greatest contribution is its critique of Plato, Hegel, and Marx and in contrasting Open Societies—those in which the people can choose to change their political leaders—and Closed Societies—those in which political leaders hold all the power (i.e., authoritarian systems). It is THE essential book on political philosophy and is entirely relevant to our own times.

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Must read for strategists and foreign policy experts

Revisado: 03-18-23

Brilliant analysis of America’s and China’s trajectories and how a China facing certain decline could well become a dangerous risk-taker threatening US vital interests. The book goes beyond merely defining Washington’s challenges in coping with China through the remainder of this decade—the danger zone; it also explores possible US responses and closes with 10 principles to guide America’s thinking and action.

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