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Sally Lunn

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Good Anecdotes. Naive Solutions.

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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-16-24

I liked the breakdown of the issues. The typical solution, “don’t censor,” was less helpful. The advice to consider all sides and use counter speech only works with good faith actors, not disrupters and trolls.

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The What Inextricably Linked to the How

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-02-24

I’m finally reviewing after one reading and two listenings. I’ll be back to this text. Postman’s genius is in having found principals which not just explain yesterday, but also today, and very likely tomorrow. Pro tip: The narration is excellent, but a little fast for my processing of this protein-rich text. I can “chew better” by slowing the audio to about 0.7 of the original speed. The narrator, thus tamed, sounds like an erudite, slightly intoxicated-yet-undiminshed, earnest expositor-friend. Works for me.

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Jefferson the Mind and the Dissonance

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-13-24

Felt like a nuanced portrait. He could fix so many problems, but not the idea of people as property, in spite of his light touch at home.

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Solid, Complex Story. Flawed Audio.

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-28-24

The text of the story was superb, and I felt like I came away with a nuanced understanding of Oppie's gifts, brilliance, and flaws. The authors (and Oppenheimer himself) did a very good job of explaining the shifting American understandings of "communism" in general from the late '20s into the '50s; how the same person's sympathies could shift over the decades with Stalin's flavor of repressive communism. (It echoes what I've learned from the families of Jewish communists in NYC that I know as neighbors; communism was seen as laudable in Spain, and preferable to fascism, but tended to attenuate to a more palatable socialism over time and due to WW2.)

Mr. Cummings narration was fine, but he'd obviously struggled with Strauss' name, and the audio patches were obvious and disruptive to narrative immersion; they should have re-recorded much more of it for audio quality consistency.

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Decent Bio. Bonhoeffer as Evangelical? Umm. When

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-23-24

Aside from those parts where the author tried to fit Bonhoeffer into the author’s own worldview, it was a good story.

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History of a Productive, Difficult Partnership

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-20-23

Gardner’s reading is excellent. This story is solid Meacham research spun in word-painted prose.

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Lush Production with Very Good Stories

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-13-23

Unlike others here, I found some of the stand-alone chapters among the best. Not all, though.

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Lessons from Computer Science and Pragmatic Living

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-13-23

Very good overview of how the lessons of data handling (storage, sorting, caching, branching) apply to and arise from the human experience

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Clean, Clear Reading of Essential Text

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-04-23

On Liberty is a dense text capably read in this edition. I’d have liked just a little more EQ midrange removal.

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Rational Thoughts on Modern Evil-Finding

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-14-22

I’m a moderate, a position increasingly radical in this increasingly polarized American society. I’ve been politically unaffiliated since Gingrich’s harbor-no-dissent tactics drove me from the GOP. I’m sympathetic to and support in acts many programs considered progressive, but I’ve resisted the broad brush and persecution of contemporary “wokeness,” even if I understand some of the underlying motivations.

This audiobook resonated powerfully with me. I walked away from one dogmatic religion decades ago. I can avoid this one too, while still doing good works.

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