Badlands by C.J. Box

CJ Box has a new hero in Cassie Dewell, a sheriff's deputy who moves to North Dakota to take a position as chief investigator in the expanding shale oil country. This looks like the beginning of a new series just as good as his Joe Pickett series.

Re-read of An Intellectual History of Liberalism by Pierre Manent

This book, along with Manent's The City of Man, is indispensable for understanding what it means to be modern. And we are all inevitably modern.

Adios America by Ann Coulter

I generally don't read these types of contemporary political books, but my library had this and I gave it a shot. A very easy read and Coulter is actually pretty funny and, unfortunately, right about immigration.

The Enlightenment - Invention of the Modern Self by Leo Damrosch

This is a series of lectures by Prof. Damrosch and produced by the Great Courses. The theme is the development of the "modern self" during the Enlightenment, and touches on Boswell, Rousseau, Hume and others. I listened to this while doing my long runs. It's an excellent series and understanding the Enlightenment is critical to understanding ourselves, as we are all children of the Enlightenment whether we know it or not.