Out with Spinoza, in with Mlodinow

Although I am up to my ears in reading assignments of the political variety, I am currently more interested in the news of Hawking's new book with Leonard Mlodinow. I have been reading Mlodinow's earlier work, Feynman's Rainbow, which I discovered at a shop in Gatlinburg. I'm fascinated by Richard Feynman and loved reading Surely You're Joking and Perfectly Reasonable Deviations, and my interest in Mlodinow's work has increased as I meander through this story of his experiences with Feynman as he struggled to find his place at Caltech and Feynman battled cancer in the late stages of his life. Between this and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, political theory may never leave the back seat. Which really seems the best place for it.