Book Review

The Truth About Men: Revealing the Mysteries of the Men’s Weekends

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
By J. Steven Svoboda

The Truth About Men: Revealing the Mysteries of the Men’s Weekends. By Howard J. Fox. Rhinebeck, New York: Epigraph Books, 2009. 153 pp. $16.95. www.epigraphPS.com; www.howardjfox.com Los Angeles-based “cooperative divorce” lawyer Howard J. Fox has produced a book that I believe is unique: a true introduction for the uninitiated to the benefits of and issues... »

Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction

Monday, February 8, 2010
By J. Steven Svoboda

Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. By Cynthia R. Daniels. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 260 pp. No price on book but publisher website gives price as $40.00. www.oup.com Rutgers University Associate Professor Political Science Cynthia R. Daniels has published Exposing Men; The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction, a book... »

Book Review: Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse.

Sunday, January 24, 2010
By J. Steven Svoboda

With Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse, New York University Social Work and Law Professor Linda G. Mills has published her fourth book and her second book focused on domestic violence (DV) issues allied with men’s rights. As with her previous book on this topic, Insult to Injury: Rethinking... »

The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood.

Monday, January 4, 2010
By J. Steven Svoboda

The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood. Edited by James Houghton, Larry Bean and Tom Matlack. Boston: The Good Men Foundation, 2009. $14.99.  251 pp. www.goodmenproject.org The Good Men Project, edited by a triumvirate of authors, makes a good first impression. It is an... »

Why Palin is “Going Rogue”

Thursday, December 3, 2009
By Rachel Alexander

Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue,” gets its title from an expression McCain staffers made about Palin during last year’s presidential campaign, referring to her unscripted interviews with the media. The book is both about her time on the campaign and an autobiography. It provides a revealing look at the real Palin, off the... »

Review: Blue Sky Rebellion

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
By J. Steven Svoboda

Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion. By Jack Kammer. Halethorpe, Maryland: Healthy Village Press, 2009.  99 pp. $9.95.  www.blueskyrebellion.com Jack Kammer, author of two excellent previous volumes, Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes and If Men Have All the Power, How Come Women Make the Rules? has written... »

Ayn Rand’s Renaissance

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By Yaron Brook

The U.S. economy is in shambles. Government intervention into the economy is increasing by the day. Americans are alarmed and desperate for answers: What caused the crisis? What is the solution? That might sound like a description of today’s world, but in fact it’s sketch of the world of Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic novel Atlas... »

Book Review: Living Your Love Every Day: How to Keep Romance Alive from Beginning to End

Friday, August 7, 2009
By J. Steven Svoboda

Married psychotherapist/author couple Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski have produced another book to help men and women to survive and thrive in their relationships with each other. As far as I know, Living Your Love Every Day is only available through Judith and Jim’s website page given above, and it probably isn’t the... »

Gender, Lies and Phil McGraw

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
By Paul Elam

With the moral foundation of an Enron executive, he sells snake oil packaged as solutions. He appears to listen to peoples problems, but what he really hears is cha-ching. That’s the sound a man’s head makes when you sucker punch him on national television. All this is delivered with an endearing hint of Texas... »

Review: Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives.

Friday, July 31, 2009
By J. Steven Svoboda

Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives. Edited by Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham.  Madison, Wisconsin: MPC-BEP Press, 2005. www.shametojoy.com . 362 pp.  $14.95. A decade after the original publication of Men Healing Shame , editors Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham have issued a revised version of their previously impossibly scarce... »

Homosexuality, Fascism and The Pink Swastika: A Rebuttal

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
By Dr. Warren Throckmorton

The authors of The Pink Swastika, Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, would have us believe that homosexuality was the driving force behind the rise of Hitler’s Third Reich. Near the beginning of chapter three of The Pink Swastika, “The Homosexual Roots of Fascism,” Lively and Abrams state this thesis: In seeking the roots of fascism... »

The Kicker of St. John’s Wood: A Book Review

Sunday, June 28, 2009
By David M. Huntwork

A rational person in a rational world should be able to say that the premise and storyline of the latest book by author Gary Wolf is silly, ridiculous, and prone to flights of fancy. Unfortunately, in the first decade of the 21st century the subject matter and conjecture found in the pages of The... »

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Monday, May 18, 2009
By J. Steven Svoboda

Book Review Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. By Leonard Sax. New York: Basic Books, 2007. www.boysadrift.com. 267 pp. $25.00. Leonard Sax, family physician and author of Why Gender Matters, has published his second book, and it’s simply superb. While... »

Book Review: The Feminist Dilemma

Thursday, April 2, 2009
By J. Steven Svoboda

The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is not Enough. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 2001. Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, co-authors of the excellent Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (1999), have published their second book together. The Feminist Dilemma: When... »

Denise Noe toots her own horn — and asks for your help

Sunday, March 1, 2009
By Denise Noe

As regular readers of this blog know, I am severely disabled and, as a result, have never been able to support myself. My principal source of support is alimony. However, I do engage in paid labor to the extent that I am able to do so. I have quite a few reviews up at epinions.com.... »

Review: “Islamic Jihad–A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery”

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
By Muhammad
Review: “Islamic Jihad–A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery”

A compelling new book, a must read, for the accurate understanding of the theology and history of Islamic Jihad, its ongoing malaise and future scourge... »

John Updike and Me

Monday, February 9, 2009
By Frank J. Tipler
John Updike and Me

I first encountered John Updike through his Roger’s Version, a cosmological and theological treatise disguised as a porno novel.  Updike, as he admitted in Roger’s Version, is really a Marcionite Heretic. This ancient heresy, most recently advanced by the German theologian Karl Barth, holds that God is wholly other, completely unapproachable by reason: theology... »

Alec Baldwin: A Promise to Ourselves

Friday, January 2, 2009
By Mike LaSalle
Alec Baldwin: A Promise to Ourselves

Alec Baldwin made a promise to cherish his marriage until death. He broke that promise, and then made another: to protect his daughter from the tumult of his divorce. And then he broke that promise, too. An alpha male conspicuously privileged by God,  Baldwin would seem to have no need of “father’s rights” or “men’s rights”,... »

Possession: A Serial Killer’s Fantasy Comes True

Thursday, January 1, 2009
By Denise Noe

Ann Rule is best known as an excellent writer of true crime books with her most famous work being The Stranger Beside Me about her experiences with serial killer Ted Bundy. In Possession, she takes a foray into fiction but sticks to the world of cops and pathological murderers with which she is so... »

Remembering an Unknown Hero: Morris Childs, America’s Greatest Cold War Spy

Monday, December 15, 2008
By Dr. Paul Kengor

If you’re looking for a book as a Christmas gift, I suggest an oldie but goodie, and in honor of the fact that it was 20 years ago that this nation quietly honored the subject of the book: a hero, a Cold War spy whose work was so classified that the 1988 ceremony commending... »

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