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Thank You for the Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission (2022), Mark Leibovich. The last Leibovich book I read...

The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change The World (2022), Ian Bremmer. Bremmer talks about five or so crisis...

On a school trip to Europe with my granddaughter, we discovered an unexpected inconvenience. It was difficult to find a place to pee....

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (2008), William Bernstein. My main interest was how trade affected the start (and...

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2022), Richard Cohen. Cohen was publishing director for two London publishers,...

There is no lack of tyrants, both petty and seriously big. Putin is the most obvious thug now, with plenty of dishonorable mentions for...

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (2009), Dan Koeppel. This is another tale of American exceptionalism: bringing a...

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016), Brian Christian and Thomas Griffiths. An algorithm is a set of...

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (2021). Michael Schur (he created The Good Place). This is a surprisingly...

There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century (2021), Fiona Hill. Hill became a senior director of the NSA in...

How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence (2019), Jonathan Daly. The Great Divergence has two parts according to...

Paul Krugman indicated that global trade was facilitated by bigger boxes—shipping containers. Their use meant considerably lower costs...

Democrats are in charge in Washington and seem to crash and burn in terms of getting things done, like the infrastructure bills. Biden’s...

Peril (2021), Woodward and Costa; Woodward seems to know everyone in Washington and get them on the record. This story tells the end of...

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021), Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. Several books on decision making and...