A better text on the philosophy of science than anything I read in university. Paley's watchmaker isn't dismissed or treated with derision but rather an essential ingredient for understanding any theoretical breakthrough: context (with jokes!).
If you can get past the stunning naivety of a former CIA agent on European holiday concluding domestic political division is a novel factor in forever war, Ackerman provides a play-by-play of America's comprehensive failure to the Afghani people even in the last days of Kabul.
Higgs' own journey through the history of discordianism and magical realism is as engaging as his attempt to suss out how much of the KLF was nonsense, ahead of its time, or often both.
The art is a bit rough and it features the single worst line of dialogue in the entire fiction, but surprisingly good for such an early piece of Battletech lore.
It's easy to miscast Derrida's work as ultimately nihilistic. Instead, Strathern does a great job illustrating how subjectivity is more a call for epistemic humility than the great relativistic Satan the Derrida's critics interpret him to be.
It's not what you think. This isn't a superhero book and the climax isn't even the firefight at the end but rather two GI's–who aren't Frank Castle–arguing over what America really is.
