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This page links to all my reviews relating to the human sciences.
| Date | Place | Review Title | Book Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2011 | National Review | Be Nice! | The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined |
Steven Pinker |
| September 2011 | The New Criterion | Demographic Dilemmas | Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, & the Consequences of a World Full of Men |
Mara Hvistendahl |
| April 4, 2011 | National Review | Hard Wiring | The Social Animal | David Brooks |
| 2010 | ||||
| September 29, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | Blaming the Teachers | The movie Waiting for Superman |
directed by Davis Guggenheim |
| June 9, 2010 | NRO | Educational Reductionism | Bad Students, Not Bad Schools |
Robert Weissberg |
| 2009 | ||||
| November 11, 2009 | NRO | Survival of the Most Pious? | The Faith Instinct | Nicholas Wade |
| January 2009 | The New Criterion | Make Way for Bio-Aesthetics | The Art Instinct | Denis Dutton |
| 2008 | ||||
| February 27, 2008 | VDARE | DNA, Schmee-NA! | Abraham's Children | Jon Entine |
| 2007 | ||||
| October 8, 2007 | The American Conservative | Speaking Your Mind | The Stuff of Thought | Steven Pinker |
| March 23, 2007 | Wall Street Journal | Go Ahead, Make Up Your Mind | I Am a Strange Loop | Doug Hofstadter |
| 2006 | ||||
| June 20, 2006 | NRO | The Ultimate in Genealogy | Before the Dawn | Nicholas Wade |
| 2005 | ||||
| July 18, 2005 | National Review | The Dress of Thought | Empires of the Word | Nicholas Ostler |
| June 20, 2005 | National Review | The Birds and the Bees | Madame Bovary's Ovaries | D.P. & N.R. Barash |
| 2004 | ||||
| June 9, 2004 | The New York Sun | How Do You Feel About That? | Secrets of the Soul | Eli Zaretsky |
| Spring 2004 | Claremont Review of Books | Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time | Homosexuality and Civilization |
Louis Crompton |
| Feebruary 2, 2004 | The New York Sun | The Devil Made Me Do It | The Science of Good and Evil |
Michael Shermer |
| 2003 | ||||
| November 16, 2003 | The Washington Times | Touring Brain Science's Bold Frontier |
The New Brain | Richard Restak |
| June 30, 2003 | National Review | Lost in the Male | The Man Who Would Be Queen |
Michael Bailey |
| December 22, 2003 | National Review | The Datanaut | Human Accomplishment | Charles Murray |
| May 19, 2003 | The American Conservative | Minority Report | World on Fire | Amy Chua |
| March 10, 2003 | The American Conservative | The Marx of the Anti-Semites | The Culture of Critique | Kevin MacDonald |
| March 2003 | The New Criterion | E pluribus plurimum | Diversity: The Invention of a Concept |
Peter Wood |
| 2002 | ||||
| October 16, 2002 | The New York Sun | A Tribute to Man the Toolmaker | Behind Deep Blue | Feng-hsiung Hsu |
| 2000 | ||||
| June 11, 2000 | The Washington Post | The Nose Knows | Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell |
Lyall Watson |
| February 21, 2000 | National Review | Score One for Nature | Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It |
Jon Entine |