#bookreview

Dan Wang's "Breakneck": A Lesson in Disavowed Hawkishness

Like Klein and Thompson's Abundance, Dan Wang wants the U.S. to build. But Breakneck isn't about raising living standards—it's about preparing for war.

Nov 4 •

Harris’s 107 Days and the Missing Reckoning: Gaza

Early coverage of Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, has been unfair. Yet Harris still won't adequately deal with the Biden administration's…

Oct 17 •

The Poverty of Abundance

Abundance liberalism won't defeat fascism.

Sep 22 •

Review: Not Enough Fight

'Fight' by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes offers a gripping account of the 2024 presidential election, placing blame on both Biden and Harris for…

Jul 2 •

Between MAGA and a Hard Place

Two books—one on Steve Bannon and the global far right, the other on life at a Chinese university—reveal a world increasingly riven by competing…

Apr 11 •

What’s the Matter with Kentucky?

Are Trumpists found—or made? A ground-level report from eastern Kentucky only tells half the story.

Apr 2 •

Technofeudalism and Telecoms

Taking a closer look at two books—Yanis Varoufakis's 'Technofeudalism' and Eva Dou's 'House of Huawei'—reveals the deep entanglement of technology and…

Mar 7 •

Proust's Housekeeper

Céleste Albaret invites us to share in the delight that a person like Marcel Proust, for all his strangeness, ever walked among us.

Dec 20, 2024 •

In Praise of Planning

In our crisis-ridden world, could centralized economic planning, rather than the ideal of free markets, be the solution?

Dec 11, 2024 •

How to Buy Power and Influence People

Musk's Twitter takeover makes little business sense, but it has given the world's richest man a global megaphone and easy access to Trump's incoming…

Nov 25, 2024 •

The Upside-Down Philosopher

Reviewing Slavoj Žižek's 'Freedom: A Disease Without a Cure' (2023).

May 21, 2024 •

Unpacking Stalin's Library

The puzzle of a murderous dictator who was also a voracious reader remains unsolved despite the author's efforts.

Dec 22, 2023 •

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