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"I wouldn't think of reading this book without a guide. Because Polanyi is an impossible read -- more difficult than Marx (he doesn't have Marx's love of language or Marx's humor), more difficult than Hegel (he doesn't have Hegel's pointed sense of kn"
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| This engaging and provocative econo-political book by a former Greek finance minister sets up a parallel between feudalism and today’s wired economy. In Middle Ages Europe, nobility owned the land, and ordinary people worked it, paying a portion of t ...more | |
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| Neoliberalism is a sloganeer’s term seldom defined. This book gives a good account of the term’s origins and development. For that alone, it is worth the read. However, much of it is uninformative ranting. The first 50 pages in particular can be skip ...more | |
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| We all know that mRNA-based vaccines saved us from the worst of Covid. The miracle was that those vaccines appeared so fast. The pandemic hit the US in 2020 and we were utterly helpless, but by December the RNA-based vaccine appeared out of nowhere. ...more | |
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| Pollan attempts to report current thinking on consciousness: what it is, how it works, where it came from, who has it and who doesn’t. However there is a scholarly position for nearly every conceivable idea about consciousness, so this survey of curr ...more | |
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| Internationally celebrated author Ibram X. Kendi is perhaps best known for his prize-winning book “How to be an Anti-Racist.” His newest, “Chain of Ideas,” Elaborates the thesis of the "Great Replacement Theory," that "they" are coming to take our jo ...more | |
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| Anarchism is still an active ideology apparently, and this short cri de coeur about climate change is in that context. It argues that time has already run out to abate devastating climate change and that fact pre-empts any hope for positive political ...more | |
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| Phage means eat, and bacteriophages eat bacteria. It’s a good thing they do or we’d all be dead. Bacteriophages (“phages” for short) are viruses that drill into their favored bacteria and deposit their own DNA, hijacking the bacteria’s cellular machi ...more | |
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| It's yet another infrastructure book but surprisingly interesting. It is not actually about the six raw materials: sand, salt, copper, iron, coal, and lithium. That would have been a hard science book about chemistry and physics—interesting in a diff ...more | |
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