Updates to posts on my recommended reading...
Art and Literature
Bruce S. Thornton on the Odyssey of Homer
Stereotypist on the life of Flannery O'Connor
Kathryn Harrison on the life of Byron
Society and History
Seth Barrett Tillman on The Federalist No. 77
John Fabian Witt on the law of war and Abraham Lincoln
Science and Technology
The Economist on the uncertainty principle of Werner Heisenberg
Philosophy and Religion
Peter Dizikes on finding first editions of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Richard John Neuhaus on systemizing Martin Luther
On the recommended reading list itself, I've continued adding comments from The Harvard guide to influential books: 113 distinguished Harvard professors discuss the books that have helped to shape their thinking (1986), edited by C. Maury Devine, Kim D. Parrish, and Claudia Dissell
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