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Showing posts with label Books Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Book Review: Abundance (2025). Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson.

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I have long been an admirer of Ezra Klein, his writing and his New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show . In my opinion, he is one of the ...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Book Review: Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2022). Richard V Reeves.

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I recently read this truly excellent book by Richard Reeves, on a topic which the author mentions he was discouraged from writing about by s...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Book Review: Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy (2023). Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud.

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This brand new non-fiction book combines the true story of a recent masterpiece of complex investigative journalism with revelations that ar...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Book Review: Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (2022). Bill Browder.

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In 2015, Bill Browder, a young businessman and major Western investor in Russia during the early post-Soviet era, published a bestselling au...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Book Review: Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy (2021). Tom Nichols.

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As you’ll recall, just last week, I did an “Honorable Mentions” post on five books about authoritarianism, democracy and recent politics. Co...