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My Own Words
If you’re looking for something to distract yourself from the dismal spectacle of the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, you might find solace in My Own Words, a collection of essays, articles and speeches by the … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, nonfiction, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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The Socrates Express
How about a little philosophy, just to lighten things up? Over the last few months I’ve been reading serious books about serious topics: climate change, racism, misogyny, injustice at the US Supreme Court, and autocratic threats to our democracy. I … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, eric weiner, nonfiction, philosophy, socrates express, stoicism
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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change
Those tree-hugging liberals over at the Pentagon just don’t get it. They don’t understand that climate change is a hoax and the Trump White House doesn’t want to hear about it. They keep working away, defying Presidential directives, studying and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Energy, Environment
Tagged All Hell Breaking Loose, book review, climate change, Klare, nonfiction, Pentagon
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Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
Supreme Inequality By Adam Cohen Penguin Press, New York, 2020 The Supreme Court is not your ally. The Supreme Court does not protect the weak, the poor, or the downtrodden. The Supreme Court will not save us from Donald Trump. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Cohen, book review, elections, nonfiction, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Inequality, voting rights
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny By Kate Manne Oxford University Press, New York, 2018 On August 11, 2020, Joe Biden chose Senator Kamala Harris to be his 2020 running mate. Within minutes, Trump and other Republicans launched misogynist and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics
Tagged book reviews, Donald Trump, down girl, feminism, Hilary Clinton, Kate Manne, misogyny, nonfiction, patriarchy
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A Burning
A Burning By Megha Majumdar Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2020 Faced with a difficult moral choice, would you do the right thing? What if doing the right thing might cost you your job or the chance of a promotion? … Continue reading
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Tagged a burning, book reviews, fiction, kolkata, megha majumdar, novels
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Surviving Autocracy: Can American democracy survive Trump’s autocratic transformation?
Surviving Autocracy By Masha Gessen Riverhead Books, New York, 2020 Most people in the US today have never lived under a dictatorship. Maybe we’ve heard stories from our parents or grandparents who immigrated from such places, but we don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged autocracy, book reviews, democracy, masha gessen, nonfiction, putin, surviving autocracy, trump
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White Fragility
White Fragility By Robin DiAngelo Beacon Press, Boston, 2018 “White Fragility” sounds like a paradox. How can whites be fragile when we’re supposed to be the largest and smost dominant segment of US society? As author Robin DiAngelo explains it, … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, justice, nonfiction, race, racism, robin diangelo, white fragility
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So you want to talk about race
So you want to talk about race By Ijeoma Oluo Seal Press, New York, 2018 In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis, and the nation-wide protests that followed, many white people, … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, ijeoma oluo, nonfiction, race, racism, social justice
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Hachette Book Group, New York, 2019 Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their research into alleviating global poverty. In Good Economics … Continue reading
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Tagged banerjee, book reviews, duflo, growth, immigration, nonfiction, trade
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