Bookworm

Was out traveling for a few days.

I finished up Senator Santrorum's It Takes a Family. Good book. It's a mandatory read for social conservatives and those who believe that a nation of morals and a foundation of values is better than value-neutral teaching. Thankfully, it wasn't as religious as I had expected.

I am currently reading Dawn Over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq, written in 2004 by an embedded journalist. Like a nerd, I'm also listening to P.J. O'Rourke's Peace Kills and a 12 hour lecture on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, a book on my must-read list.

Next up, I'll be reading Christopher Hitchens' A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq to counter the next three books I'll be tearing through: Understanding Iraq, Blood Money, and Blind Into Baghdad. I'll be taking an Iraq War class this summer, so I'm researching neoconservative excuses for nationbuilding and oil profiteering. Unfortunately, few books are written about the nitty gritty details of our involvement, so I'll have to settle with books which justify our actions.