Missive #704 Published 2 May 2026

A word of warning - if you are one of those ultra-modern people who can't get along with characters who are restrained and circumspect, who do not communicate their feelings with modern-day standards of openness etc, this book won't be for you. I know from reading reviews that a lot of such readers do exist. The people who populate this book are circumspect, discreet and undemonstrative to a very high degree. If that bothers you, give this book a miss. As great as it is, you probably won't like it.

Missive #702 Published 27 April 2026

How to Slay a Wizard is about the people who run the tricks, the tricks themselves, and the one lie at the root of every spell ever cast on a living man or woman. It is not a political book. It is not a religious book. It is a book about manipulation, who does it, how it works, and why it requires your participation to be effective.
This book will teach you what a wizard is, what an alchemist is, and why the difference matters. It shows how spells are structured like jokes that never deliver the punchline. It explains why the most forbidden word in America is forbidden and what the vampire myth is actually describing. It tells you how to spot a liar before the lies take root. And at the very end, the book exposes the one lie that has to be believed in order for any of it to work on you. It is so simple you might laugh. That's the point.

Missive #699 Published 22 April 2026

I may have read this book many years ago but glad that I have read it now. A entertaining book that brings to light what the military is like in many respects. Recommended.

Missive #698 Published 20 April 2026

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own Reformation. In Debunking Economics , he eviscerated an intellectual church – neoclassical economics – that systematically ignores its own empirical untruths and logical fallacies, and yet is still mysteriously worshipped by its scholarly high priests.

Missive #696 Published 18 April 2026

This is the second essay, published as a book, in the 'Future series'. I again asked ChatGPT to write the book review which I think is much better than the promo.