Category: politics
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Book Review: The Road to Freedom, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
I read this book in the cool dark mornings and eternally bright evenings of the New Zealand summer while on a three-day hike with my family. I was immediately hooked by the premise: What do we mean when we advocate for ‘freedom’, and what happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?…
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Book Review: Everyone Who is Gone is Here, by Jonathan Blitzer
“No one ever wants to migrate. The whole thing is a fight not to become invisible.” These are the words of an immigrant who lost an arm and a leg trying to enter the promised land. Making the invisible suffering of migrants visible is this book’s ultimate triumph. Blitzer does a masterful job at capturing…
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Book Review: Surviving Autocracy, by Masha Gessen
I am naive. I bought this book imagining it had something to do with Gessen’s time growing up in the Soviet Union. I was wrong; it was a book written towards the end and shortly after the first Trump term — an attempt to reckon with that brief but irreversible period in American life. This…
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Book Review: On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder
This beautiful, intimate book about what freedom really means is the book we all need as the term becomes increasingly abused by the far right.
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Book Review: Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ passenger-seat ride through the chaos years of Facebook is riveting, shocking, often funny, and perhaps a little too perfect.
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Book Review: Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
On March 18 — release date — I downloaded Ezra Klein’s and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance to my Kobo. Despite being in a foreign country with no access to English-language new releases, in a couple of clicks, I had in my hand what friends in New York, London, and Melbourne were all also reading at the…
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Book Review: Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War describes the collapse of civilization in unforgettable detail.
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Book Review: Chip War, by Chris Miller
Chris Miller’s ‘Chip War’ exposes the fragility of one of the world’s most critical supply chains.
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Book Review: Trust the Plan, by Will Sommer
Will Sommer’s ‘Trust the Plan’ suggests that the rise of conspiracy theories in the West has less to do with online algorithms and more to do with offline realities.