Justin Grosslight

Book Review: A Beautiful Brick in the Wall — Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

January 2, 2023
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This is an indispensable study for anyone — including scholars, policy makers, and educators — who yearns to better understand how race and culture play out in a rarefied suburban milieu.

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Book Review: Humanizing Our Youth — “Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age”

May 28, 2022
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Throughout, Gen Z, Explained does its best to help readers relate to its protagonists by placing them in Gen Z’s shoes.

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Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

October 25, 2021
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Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

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Book Review: A Profound Meditation — “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”

August 16, 2021
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Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.

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Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

August 30, 2020
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With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

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Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology

August 27, 2019
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Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.

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Book Review: A Whirlwind Journey from Memory to Reason — Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

March 3, 2014
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“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.

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