@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialDoes Spinoza talk himself into a position of de facto atheism by believing in a God stripped of providence, personality, and causal power? Thoughts on Steven Nadler's "Spinoza, Atheist" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2026).
@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialMy thoughts on Graham Robb's "Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century," a fantastic history challenging the traditional narrative that Victorian gay life was defined by victimhood and isolation.
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialSome initial impressions of Helena Rosenblatt's "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2018).
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialAfraid of history? Think it's boring or stuffy? Come join the rest of the BookTube community as we read history all year long in an event called #Historathon2026. Here's are the books on my mind!
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialThoughts on @samuelmoyn.bsky.social's superb account of liberalism defensively retreating into itself after more than a century of promising emancipation and liberation (@yalepress.bsky.social, 2023).
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialMy review of Dwight Macdonald's famous essay collection "Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against The American Grain" (reprinted by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social).
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialSome books that I recently found at the two library bookstores nearby. Join me as I apparently enter my American history era! I love this for me!
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialSome thoughts on Richard J. King's fantastic "Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick" (@uofchicago.bsky.social, 2019). The weather, sounds, animals, migration patterns. It's another world!
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialA quick peek at four of the books I've been reading the past couple of weeks: the French Revolution, Nixon in China, and some African travel/adventure writing!
What are you reading these days?
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@johndavidbooks.bsky.socialMy thoughts of the Domenico Ghirlandaio installment of @uchicagopress.bsky.social's Renaissance Lives series. Lush, beautiful color plates and an emphasis on Ghirlandaio's social circles and guild networks.
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