Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein invites readers on a haunting intellectual journey through our fractured cultural moment, one in which truth and illusion blur into each other like reflections in a funhouse mirror. Known for her incisive […]
Malcolm Gladwell has always been a master of finding hidden patterns in the chaos of human behavior, and in Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, he revisits the concept that made him a household name […]
Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America is a lucid, urgent walk through American history that explains how the United States arrived at a precarious democratic moment and what it might take to reclaim the promise of self-government. […]
Pauline Harmange’s brief manifesto is not a coy thought experiment. It is a full-throated argument for misandry as a political position and as a psychic exit ramp from a world structured by male power. The title promises heat and the essay delivers, […]
Scott Ellsworth’s Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America aims for narrative propulsion over academic granularity, and for the most part it hits the mark. If you like your history […]
Richard V. Reeves’ Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It is one of the most talked-about social studies books in recent years, and for good reason. With the world shifting […]
Peter Beinart’s latest is not a neutral primer. It is a moral brief that asks readers to reconsider the dominant Jewish narrative of victimhood and supremacy, and to replace it with a story rooted in equality, shared safety, and the infinite value […]
If you ever doubted that geography still dictates the fate of nations, Tim Marshall’s The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World will change your mind. This compelling sequel to Prisoners of Geography dives deep into the […]
Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization arrives at a time when the world’s moral compass seems increasingly fractured. As the author of The War on the West and The Madness of Crowds, Murray has long […]
In The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and current CEO of Inflection AI, presents a sweeping exploration of the technologies poised to redefine our civilization. Joined by writer Michael Bhaskar, Suleyman invites […]