Reviews are listed alphabetically by author's last name.
"Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception" By George Akerlof and Robert Shiller Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member
“Poor White” by Sherwood Anderson Reviewed here by Rev Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member
“On Violence” by Hannah Arendt (1969) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart. a long time UUJEC board member.
“Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth” by Ugo Bardi (2020) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart. a long time UUJEC board member.
“Limits and Beyond -50 years on from The Limits to Growth –What did we learn and what’s next?” edited by Ugo Bardi and Carlos Pereira – A report to the Club of Rome (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member
“The Origin of Wealth” by Eric Beinhocker reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
“War in Ukraine –Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict” by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas Davies (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"The Hidden Wound" by Wendell Berry, 1970 and 1989 reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Iron John: A Book About Men", by Robert Bly (1990) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, long time UUJEC board member.
"How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide" by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"Humankind: a Hopeful HIstory" by Roger Bregman (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science" By Claire Brown, Ph.D. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member
“Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age”, “How the US Financial System has Gone Wrong and How to Rebuild It” by Ellen Brown. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Second Machine Age" By Erik Brynjlofsson and Andrew McAfee reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
“Used to Be UU: The Systematic Attack on UU Liberalism: What You Need to Know and What You Need to Do” by Frank Casper and Jay Kiskel (2021) reviewed here by long time UUJEC board member, Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations" by Amy Chua (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
“Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity” by The Club of Rome (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response" by Mike Cole (2009) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Transforming Conflict: The Blessings of Congregational Turmoil" by Terasa Cooley (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Green New Deal and Beyond" by Stan Cox (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Against Illiberalism: A critique of illiberal trends in liberal institutions with a focus on Unitarian Universalism" by David Cycleback (2022) reviewed here by longtime UUJEC board member, Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Live Not By Lies -A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"This is an Uprising!" by Mark and Paul Engler reviewed here by Terry Lowman, UUJEC co-chair.
"They’re Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions" by Bill Fletcher Jr Reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Steury UUJEC Administrator.
"Listen Liberal" by Thomas Frank, The Ruin of the Democratic Party by Meritocracy and Technocracy reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History", 2019 by Steve Fraser and reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
“Liberalism and its Discontents” by Francis Fukuyama (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
“Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope" by Joëlle Gergis (2022) reviewed here by Kara Nicholson, an Australian bookseller.
"Crisis in US Health Care: Corporate Power vs. The Common Good" by John Geyman, M.D. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"The Dawn of Everything-A New History of Humanity", by David Graeber and David Wengrow reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a long time UUJEC board member.
Combined Review of "Dark Age America" by John Michael Greer, and "Ages of Discord" by Peter Turchin. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann. Reviewed here by Rev. Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member.
"The Cult of Trump: A Leading Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control" by Steven Hassan (2019) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“Of Cults and Mind Control”, 2021 review of "The Cult of Trump" by Steven Hassan reviewed on Substack and linked here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, long time UUJEC board member.
"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" by Chris Hedges (2006) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral imperative of Revolt by Chris Hedges. Reviewed here by Rev. Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member.
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival" By Richard Heinberg (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Welcome to the Great Unraveling" by Richard Heinberg and Asher Miller (2023) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, long time UUJEC board member.
"A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life" by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a long time UUJEC board member.
"Explaining Post Modernism: skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Faulcault" by Stephen Hicks 2011. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
“Why Orwell Matters” by Christopher Hitchens (2002) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, 1951 Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Ivermectin for the World" by Dr. Justus Hope (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"The Fascism this Time: And the Global Future of Democracy" by Theo Horesh (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"The Arc of a Bad Idea - Understanding and Transcending Race" (2016) by Carlos Hoyt reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, longtime UUJEC board member.
"The Bubble and Beyond" by Michael Hudson (2014) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism, or Socialism", (2022) by Michael Hudson reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, long time board member.
'The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies' by Susan Jacoby reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Bright Green Lies" by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Max Wilbert (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"Degrowth" By Giorgos Kallis (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
“Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?” by Steve Keen. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"How To Be an Antiracist" by Ibram Kendi (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"The Clot Thickens-The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease" by Dr. Malcom Kendrick (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“The True Flag” by Stephen Kinzer Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair.
“Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture” by Dan Kovalik (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Dark Age Ahead" by Jane Jacob reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too” by George Lakey. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"Toward a Living Revolution: A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change” by George Lakey. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"These Truths" by Jean Lapore reviewed here by Rev Judith Deutsch.
"Identity Capitalism, The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality" by Nancy Leong (2021), reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Runaway Inequality" by Les Leopold, reviewed here by Kit Marlowe, UUJEC Secretary.
"Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World" by Rabbi Michael Lerner (2019). Calls for a New Politics of Respect and Generosity, Rejecting Leftist Blaming and Elitisma reviewed here by Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry" by Robert Lifton (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism –A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China” by Robert J. Lifton (1961) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite" by Michael Lind (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"Everybody is Wrong About God" by James Lindsay (2015) reviewed here by Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from Woke Religion” by James Lindsay, Sept 9, 2020 reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" by Ian Lopez (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (2018) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
“The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All – But There is a Solution” 2023, by Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Don’t Label Me" How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Cultural Wars by Irshad Manji (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse by Andrei Martyanov (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Woke Racism, How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black Americans by John McWhorter (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC Board Member.
“Debt or Democracy – Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice” - By Mary Mellor. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“Global Inequality – A New Approach for the Age of Globalization” by Branko Milanovic reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Racial Contract" (1997) by Charles Mills reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy: Black Power and Unitarian Universalism by Mark Morrison-Reed reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"1619 Project" of the New York Times reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a long time UUJEC board member.
"Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb: Quantum Economics for the Real World" by David Orrell (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal” 2021 by George Packer reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" 2018 by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore reviewed here by Terry Lowman, UUJEC co-chair.
"The Anatomy of Fascism: by Robert Paxton (2004) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Confessions of An Eco-Sinner" by Fred Pearce reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Streury
“Duopoly: How the Republicrats Control the Electoral Process” by Darryl Perry, (2011) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", by Jordan Petersen (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a long time UUJEC board member.
"A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a long time UUJEC board member.
"Counter Wokecraft, A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond by Charles Pincourt with James Lindsay (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" by Steven Pinker (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody" by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System By T.R. Reid. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism" by Toure´ Reed (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“Of Boys and Men-Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It” by Richard Reeve (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care" by T.R. Reid Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less” By John Robbins Reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Steury UUJEC Administrator.
“Beyond $15, The story of the Seatac living wage battle” by Jonathan Rosenblum. Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair.
“The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against the Progressives’ War on Fun” by Noah Rothman (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"A Renegade History of the United States" 2010 by Thaddeus Russell reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society" Second edition, 1998 by Arthur Schlesinger reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
A Self-Confessed White Supremacy Culture: The Emergence of an Illiberal Left in Unitarian Universalism by Anne Schneider (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left" By Roger Scruton (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"San Fran-sicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities" by Michael Shellenberger (2021) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide" by Stuart Sim & Borin Van Loon (2012) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality" by Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott (2019) and reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, board member...This excellent little survey of “public options” shows exactly how much the US has suffered from the ideology of neoliberal economics.
“How the World Really Works:The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going” by Vaclav Smil (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“Woke – An Evangelical Guide to postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and more” by John Stackhouse (2023) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
"People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent" by Joseph Stiglitz (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
“How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System” By Wolfgang Streeck. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Hate Inc." by Matt Taibbi reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)" By Olufemi Taiwo (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a longtime UUJEC board member.
"Reconsidering Reparations", by Olufemi Taiwo (2022) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, a longtime UUJEC board member.
"The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet” By Nina Teicholz. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman" by Howard Thurman (1979) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
“The Tierra Solution” by Frans Verhagen (2012) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"In the Know" by Russell Warne (2020) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"How the Woke Won: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance, and Reason” by Joanne Williams, 2022 reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"The Corporate Criminal: Why corporations must be abolished" by Steve Tombs and David Whyte. Reviewed here by Rich Florentino UUJEC Board Member.
“Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth” by Peter Turchin. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy" by Batya Ungar-Sargon (2021), Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Beyond the Messy Truth" by Van Jones, the 2008 Ware Lecturer at GA. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Paradox of Debt" by Richard Vague 2023 reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
"Less Medicine, More Health" written by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch 2015 Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair
"White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America" by Joan Williams 2020, reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Caste, The Origins of our Discontents" written by Isabel Wilkerson 2020 and reviewed here, Rev Judith Deutsch's sermon as a review.
"Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy" by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinett Reviewed here by Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Administrator
"The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Market" By Paul Wilmott and David Orrell Reviewed by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member, published in the SIAM News
“Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems”, Second Edition, by L. Randall Wray.
Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member
“Critical Race Theory and Woke Culture: America’s Dangerous Repeat of China’s Cultural Revolution” by Mike Zhao (2022) reviewed
here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.