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Book Review: Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us by Ro Khanna In this book, Ro Khanna articulates what true progressivism should look like. While promoting dignity and equitable opportunity for persons from all walks of life the default posture is communication and problem solving, without paternalism—from any quarter. Khanna …
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Book Review: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder [Expanded audiobook edition, which is updated in 2022 with 20 new lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine] This audiobook starts with Timothy Snyder narrating his own short book from 2017, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. That previous work served …
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Book Review: Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever, by Nomi Prins From the documented accounts in this book, Nomi Prins demonstrates that the stock market has little relation to, and even less impact on, the real economy where most people live. Although left brain bean counters will be right at …
Book Review: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson This is the clearest explanation I have seen anywhere of why racial animosity persists in the US and elsewhere. Through objective scholarship and observations, Isabel Wilkerson decodes (what should be) the obvious: Race is only a pointer to caste—the irrational visceral need to assert …
Book Review: The World After Capital, by Albert Wenger In this book Albert Wenger colors outside of the lines with convincing arguments and research. The author portrays the practical possibility of a near ideal world with compelling empirical evidence from today’s state of technology. Imagine an environment in which everyone is able to pursue their …
Book Review: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else), by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò This book is rich espresso, well worthwhile in keeping up with its rapid pace of concentrated thought. Táíwò takes the reader through the unintentional mistakes of well meaning (white) people who (understandably) feel that deference is the …
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Book Review: The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy, by David Gelles If this book doesn’t boil your blood you’re part of the problem. In this account of the late GE CEO Jack Welch, David Gelles illuminates the essence …
Book Review: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, by: Joseph Henrich If you’ve ever wondered how Western culture, language, and technology came to have the prominent role it has worldwide, the answer may be literally WEIRD from a reading of Joseph Henrich’s book. WEIRD in this case …
Book Review: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed by Andrew J. Bacevich The Apocalypse this book refers to is the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which upended several previously sacrosanct presuppositions about economics, society, and diplomacy. Andrew Bacevich addresses the history and condition of the United States and the role the US is …
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Book Review: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin This book is an inside look at combating the dangerous scheming of those who would rather have a United States that is autocratic and oligarchic. The author, Jamie Raskin, a member of the US House of Representatives from a DC suburb …
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