Joshua M Brown

The Invention of Air: My Reaction

Coming into the home stretch of my Seven Books plan for this summer and I’m really excited to tell you about the fifth book – The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson. I was completely floored by how quickly I was able to read it and how packed with fascinating information it was. You may not know…

a modest proposal

Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ carried the subhead “For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick” and it represents the very highest form of sarcasm and satire. He offers a solution for mass poverty, with a completely straight…