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A self-help book with surprising depth

The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life
Arthur C. Brooks
Harvard Business Review Press
August  2025
272 pages
ISBN: 979‑8892792264

From ripples to torrents of conversions

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century
Melanie McDonagh
Yale University Press
November 2025
ISBN 978-0-300-26607-8

Asking important questions about AI

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao
Penguin Books
May 2026
496 pages
ISBN: 978-1802064650

The Evolution of a Peacemaker

David Trimble: Peacemaker
Stephen Walker
Gill Books
September, 2025
432 pages
ISBN: 9781804581926

How feminism has failed women

The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto
Leah Libresco Sargeant
University of Notre Dame Press
October 2025
232 pages
ISBN: 978 0268210335

The Original Church was the Catholic Church

The Original Church: What It Meant—and Still Means—to Be a Christian
James L. Papandrea
Scepter Publishers
September 2025
152 pages
ISBN: 978 1594175732

Answering the Unanswerable: The Failure of ‘Nuremberg’

“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”
― Michel de Montaigne

“He don’t know it’s anything he can’t know.”
— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away