Currently reading The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell and the book I finished before it was Knellers Happy Campers by Edgar Kenet which is a short story that was adapted into a movie in like 06 called Wristcutters about a guy who kills himself and goes to an afterlife for all the people who committed suicide. I learned it was based on the short story so I found it for cheap and read it
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Currently "Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism" by Eric Burns. This has been on my pile of shame forever (I got bogged down reading all of Michel de Montaigne's essays a few years back). Eric Burns used to host Fox News Watch which was an ombudsman sort of show that analyzed the news stories Fox News had presented that week and the takes on the news from various viewpoints. The book itself isn't bad if not a little lighter "history" than i was expecting.
Previous (also from the pile of shame): Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. Um... the first 200 pages were great and then it sort of went off the rails... Treating historical scientific figures using contemporary thought processes (which is probably closer than the historical literature represents it) is a clever and fun idea but then Stephenson tries applying that to political and religious leaders and that just doesn't work at all... and then he goes for the trifecta and puts a stronk women character in it.