Issue 2016 December 17
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BOOK REVIEW: A continuing analysis
LIBERTY OR DEATH: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee Yale University Press, Yale Hardcover: 488 pagesISBN: 9780300189933 Price: AUD$57.95 Reviewed by Bill James General Charles de Gaulle once asked: “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” France has always been a nation of striking regional differences, and this was no…
BOOK APPRAISAL Religious incredulity: a most modern virtue
WHAT SHOULD I BELIEVE? by Dorothy Rowe Routledge, London and New York Paperback: 312 pages Price: AUD$41.90 Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch This book is now several years old, but age should not excuse it from the kicking it richly deserves. Many of its propositions seem perennial and are evidence of the fact that really bad ideas are very hard to…
