The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War o ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
The End of Solitude - Selected Essays on Culture and Society by William Deresiewicz
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four tha ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour. For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophi ...Show more
Peripathetic : Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From one of the New Yorker's most exciting young writers: a brilliant breakdown of how algorithms have shaped our physical and artistic worlds. The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms ha ...Show more
The Furies: Three Women and Their Violent Fight for Justice by Elizabeth Flock
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A stunning narrative investigation into three real-life women who used violence to fight back against their oppressors The Furies tells the stories of three unforgettable women who chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them - government, poli ...Show more
No Judgement : On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know.It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out o ...Show more
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words. ...Show more