Monthly Archives: May, 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
While pretty much everyone in this book who is rich and powerful comes off looking bad, it is less a tale of typical fraud,...
The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics (Salena Zito and Brad Todd)
Most honest postmortems of Trump’s election are by Democrats focusing on what they missed. Usually, they are either narrow exercises in vote counting or...
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond (William Dalrymple and Anita Anand)
Koh-i-Noor is not about the diamond, to my disappointment. Oh, sure, it makes an appearance here and there in this book. But very little...
The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)
This book was once famous, but was mostly forgotten when Communism died and so-called liberal democracy seemed ascendant. It is increasingly famous again, and...
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (Henry Mayer)
William Lloyd Garrison is one of those nineteenth-century American figures about whom most people know a little, realizing they are important to American history,...
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (Jonah Goldberg)
I think this book is meant as a #NeverTrumper manifesto, an attempt to create intellectual backbone for that wispy band of conservative holdouts, who...