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David Wineberg

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Straight Dope: What I Learned from My First Thousand Nonfiction Reviews

What I learned from my first thousand nonfiction reviews

2019

David Wineberg

Stories

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

5d ago

The total frustration of Gen Z in China as capitalism runs amok

Involution is a new word for me. It describes the hyper-competitive, dog-eat-dog existence of Chinese graduates looking to establish…

The total frustration of Gen Z in China as capitalism runs amok

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Oct 24

No need to seek aliens as Earth is home to the most bizarre lifeforms imaginable

A bestiary is a collection of tales about select animals. It used to include fables, stories, traditional songs and myths. Now world-famous…

No need to seek aliens as Earth is home to the most bizarre lifeforms imaginable

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Oct 17

Plain, observable truth: one last book from Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal died in 2024, but his last book is just coming out now. It is something to be grateful for. In Minds I’ve Met, de Waal…

Plain, observable truth: one last book from Frans de Waal

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Oct 11

Even as war heroes in the Middle East, Uyghurs circle the drain of victimhood by the Chinese

Our Hearts Burned For Home is a true story worthy of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. The twists, the irony and the Catch-22 plight of…

Even as war heroes in the Middle East, Uyghurs circle the drain of victimhood by the Chinese

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Oct 4

Demonizing women for 4000 years, and incredibly, the story never changes

Western literature, religion and culture have a single consistent theme, according to Eleanor Johnson. They hate women with a passion. They…

Demonizing women for 4000 years, and incredibly, the story never changes

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Sep 27

Cultural minefields from around the world as headscratching entertainment

It is difficult to see beyond your own culture to understand another one. Worse, people tend to assume everyone thinks the way they do. And…

Cultural minefields from around the world as headscratching entertainment

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Sep 20

Fleecing the Flock, Part 2: The ironies, contradictions and hypocrisy of Christian women shilling…

After her blockbuster Jesus and John Wayne, telling the largely white male story of American evangelicals , I looked forward to what…

Fleecing the Flock, Part 2: The ironies, contradictions and hypocrisy of Christian women shilling…

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Sep 15

Modern fascism is everywhere, even where it isn’t

End Times Fascism, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor could have packed a real punch. Instead, it mostly revisits the entire Trump regime…

Modern fascism is everywhere, even where it isn’t

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Sep 13

Far from net beneficial, tech solutions make people poorer and more stupid

It’s one thing to hate all the wonders of the internet age, but quite another to understand what they are doing to people, and why we…

Far from net beneficial, tech solutions make people poorer and more stupid

The Straight Dope

David Wineberg

Sep 6

Featured Book

Stories

The total frustration of Gen Z in China as capitalism runs amok

Involution is a new word for me. It describes the hyper-competitive, dog-eat-dog existence of Chinese graduates looking to establish…

No need to seek aliens as Earth is home to the most bizarre lifeforms imaginable

A bestiary is a collection of tales about select animals. It used to include fables, stories, traditional songs and myths. Now world-famous…

Plain, observable truth: one last book from Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal died in 2024, but his last book is just coming out now. It is something to be grateful for. In Minds I’ve Met, de Waal…

Even as war heroes in the Middle East, Uyghurs circle the drain of victimhood by the Chinese

Our Hearts Burned For Home is a true story worthy of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. The twists, the irony and the Catch-22 plight of…

Demonizing women for 4000 years, and incredibly, the story never changes

Western literature, religion and culture have a single consistent theme, according to Eleanor Johnson. They hate women with a passion. They…

Cultural minefields from around the world as headscratching entertainment

It is difficult to see beyond your own culture to understand another one. Worse, people tend to assume everyone thinks the way they do. And…

Fleecing the Flock, Part 2: The ironies, contradictions and hypocrisy of Christian women shilling…

After her blockbuster Jesus and John Wayne, telling the largely white male story of American evangelicals , I looked forward to what…

Modern fascism is everywhere, even where it isn’t

End Times Fascism, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor could have packed a real punch. Instead, it mostly revisits the entire Trump regime…

Far from net beneficial, tech solutions make people poorer and more stupid

It’s one thing to hate all the wonders of the internet age, but quite another to understand what they are doing to people, and why we…

Humans are so complex they need whole books to tell them how read other humans.

Humans are so complex they need whole books to tell them how read other humans. And they will be shocked and amazed doing so. Pamela…

David Wineberg