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Book Review: The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society By Joseph E. Stiglitz In this book Joseph Stiglitz effectively shreds the destructive neoliberal economic dogma that has caused such immense suffering for the past 50 years. Siglitz artfully debunks the theories of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek so that they now no longer …
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Book review: The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator by David Fenton In this book, David Fenton shares a lifetime of experience on how to message effectively for political and activist campaigns. The author is brutally candid about his own failures, both career and personal—this lack of pretentiousness makes his …
Book review: Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War by W. Craig Reed This book is a military tech thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout—with real life anecdotes. Composed of material recently released from if-I-tell-you-I’ll-have-to-kill-you status, these stories are as sobering as they are entertaining. Reed superbly knits …
Book review: Building a Sustainable Home: Practical Green Design Choices for Your Health, Wealth, and Soul by Melissa Rappaport Schifman The point at which current methods of housing construction are no longer sustainable is clearly in view—it’s actually been within sight for some time. In this book Melissa Rappaport Schifman describes her actual experiences in …
Book review: The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes This is a candid conversation that is long overdue. As a person of color himself, Coleman Hughes refutes head on the (perhaps well meaning although dogmatic) assumptions of self declared antiracists such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi—to offer …
Book review: How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley In this book, Jason Stanley takes an overused and sometimes misrepresented word and puts meat on its bones, as the best designator for social phenomena that are occurring in our own time. It’s written for awareness rather than alarm—although an inadequate response to this awareness would be …
Book review: Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò In this book Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò goes beyond the usual justifications and proposals for reparations to descendants of enslaved people, to straightforwardly propose a world making project. Táíwò calls it the Constructive view. “Reconsidering” does not mean tossing out reparations, and instead expands the scope of the …
Book Review: Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney Defeating Donald Trump is the cause of our time—thus concluded Elizabeth Lynne Cheney, after a breathtaking account of the damage Trump has caused and the danger he continues to present as long as he is active. With extensive detail of objective facts …
Book Review: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson The lesson from the long view of history is to never give up in the present. The observations of historian Heather Cox Richardson—who’s been a bulwark of stability throughout and beyond the authoritarianism of the Trump presidency—are cause to take a …
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Book review: Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, by Andy Greenberg Real people and actual actions, all rolled together into an exquisite novel that is fully non-fiction. Turn after turn, Andy Greenberg keeps you on the edge of your seat in this fast moving narrative of real world …
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