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Book Review: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris This is why we can’t have nice things. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in a digital war zone with packets of cyber ordnance landing all around us and on us. You might not be hearing physical explosions just yet, but …
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Book Review: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris Through an anecdotal style, Harris articulates the clearest and most common-sense policy you will find anywhere. On issues including law enforcement, education, drug and prison reform, banking, and immigration, the reader is sure to see a coherent vision of the most effective means …
Book Review: People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz Here is government policy ready-made for implementation. Through solid argument and historical example, Joseph E. Stiglitz demonstrates that the solution is Keynesian—government unapologetically has an indispensable role in the well-being of everyone, including the rich in a fair …
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Book Review: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond Listen to your adversaries! No, really listen—not necessarily to abandon your position and adopt theirs, but to understand their perspective (whether flawed or not) and so increase your ability to communicate productively with them. This is the take away from Jared Diamond’s description of …
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Book Review: The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson As a comprehensive collection and analysis of scholarly research, this book is an essential supplement to your secondary school education (and probably that from college too) about the French Revolution. Don’t venture citing the French Revolution without first reading this complete and objective history …
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Book Review: Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century by Mark Blyth An excellent history lesson on how New Deal values began to be eroded, a process that accelerated in the 1970s. Documents how public acquiescence to supply side economics was no accident, but instead was the result of deliberate well funded …
Book Review: Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank Documents how some people who consider themselves to be Liberals are not living up to their proclaimed values. Points to how prosperity can be extended to those left behind. —
Book Review: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo This book is a worthy and indispensable read. It is about and for white people, and how to eliminate our unconscious and ubiquitous racism. Robin DiAngelo addresses white progressives in particular about the pervasive racism we all …
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Book Review: If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved by Michael Tomasky For any hope of rectifying today’s dysfunctional polarization, this book is a must read. The title says it all, and the author delivers as it promises. Michael Tomasky takes the famous quote of Benjamin Franklin …
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Book Review: The Bankers’ New Clothes: Whats Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig This is a must read, especially if finance is not your forte. Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig take a topic that is as equally unbearably boring as it is essential for the well-being of …
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