Invisible Doctrine
INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison If you follow politics much you’ll likely be familiar with the term neoliberalism, an economic and...
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THE FLAG AND THE CROSS: WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry “White Christian nationalism” is one of those political labels that has...
View ArticleBlame
BLAME: DEATH, DISABILITY, AND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR GUY MITCHELL By Dustin Galer Paul Fussell’s 1983 book Class: A Guide through the American Status System set out a social hierarchy ranging...
View ArticleSextinction
SEXTINCTION: THE DECLINE OF SEX AND THE FUTURE OF INTIMACY By Debra Soh The title hints at what may be an oversold crisis. Are we talking about an extinction-level event, an “ongoing sex famine,” or...
View Article1929
1929: INSIDE THE GREATEST CRASH IN WALL STREET HISTORY – AND HOW IT SHATTERED A NATION By Andrew Ross Sorkin There have been many books written about the most famous if not the greatest stock market...
View ArticleA World after Liberalism
A WORLD AFTER LIBERALISM: PHILOSOPHERS OF THE RADICAL RIGHT By Matt Rose One of the things that makes a discussion of the intellectual foundations of today’s right-wingers difficult is that their very...
View ArticleWaste Land
WASTE LAND: A WORLD IN PERMANENT CRISIS By Robert D. Kaplan The word “conservative,” at least when used to describe a political philosophy, has been debased in the twenty-first century to the point...
View ArticlePale Horse Rider
PALE HORSE RIDER: WILLIAM COOPER, THE RISE OF CONSPIRACY, AND THE FALL OF TRUST IN AMERICA By Mark Jacobson Pale Horse Rider is a valuable book that I didn’t enjoy reading. The reason is simple. It’s a...
View ArticleThe New Prophets of Capital
THE NEW PROPHETS OF CAPITAL By Nicole Aschoff There are two imperatives that control the psychology of the very rich. The first and most important is the need to hold on to their positions of wealth,...
View ArticleThe Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY: AMERICAN EVANGELICALS IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM By Tim Alberta In American Carnage Tim Alberta entered what was already a crowded field and wrote what I think is...
View ArticleLast Best Hope
LAST BEST HOPE: AMERICA IN CRISIS AND RENEWAL By George Packer I wonder when the crisis was supposed to end, and renewal get started? Published in 2021, Packer writes of how “Trump is gone and people...
View ArticleThe New Class War
THE NEW CLASS WAR: SAVING DEMOCRACY FROM THE MANAGEMENT ELITE By Michael Lind The essence of the Trump phenomenon is that by 2016 America had become a country consumed by anger, an emotion fueled by...
View ArticleRipper
RIPPER: THE MAKING OF PIERRE POILIEVRE By Mark Bourrie Mark Bourrie’s book on then Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was written to a tight deadline, coming out in the midst of the 2025...
View ArticleFire Weather
FIRE WEATHER: THE MAKING OF A BEAST By John Vaillant In Fire Weather John Vaillant gives a master class on writing non-fiction, balancing close reporting on a very local and specific incident – the...
View ArticleLeft Behind
LEFT BEHIND: DECLINE AND RAGE IN SMALL-TOWN AMERICA By Robert Wuthnow One of the most telling data points on the first election of Donald Trump in 2016 was his support among rural voters, and in the...
View ArticleWhen the Clock Broke
WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE: CON MEN, CONSPIRACISTS, AND HOW AMERICA CRACKED UP IN THE EARLY 1990S. By John Ganz I’ve mentioned before (at greatest length here) how books looking to explain the Trump era –...
View ArticleWhy Liberalism Failed
WHY LIBERALISM FAILED By Patrick J. Deneen In recent years Notre Dame University professor Patrick Deneen has become one of the gurus of a new conservative movement in American politics, with Why...
View ArticleTechnofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
TECHNOFEUDALISM: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM By Yanis Varoufakis There’s a chapter in Technofeudalism titled “What’s in a Word?” where Yanis Varoufakis makes the case for the need to invent a new language...
View ArticleThe Age of Grievance
THE AGE OF GRIEVANCE By Frank Bruni Over the years – meaning mainly the last ten years, or the Trump era – I’ve written a lot about this being an Age of Anger, to borrow the title of one of the better...
View ArticleAutocracy, Inc.
AUTOCRACY, INC. By Anne Applebaum It’s become clear in the twenty-first century that the familiar political labels of the twentieth – fascism, communism, liberalism – no longer have a lot of purchase,...
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