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Nathaniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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Egon Krenz seems like a nice guy, to judge from the first volume of his three-part autobiography. He believes in gender equality, a human right to housing, and a decisive break with Germany's fascist past. Born in 1937 in what is now Poland, Krenz gre ...more |
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| The standard narrative of U.S. Jewish history goes something like this: For several generations after fleeing the Pale and arriving on America's shores, Jews leaned left. But after the Six-Day War in 1967, Jews broke with the Left and turned toward Z ...more | |
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| Sonja Larsen grew up in a cult. Her parents were restless seekers, drifting from one commune to the next, until her mom settled on NATLFED, the National Labor Federation — a front for a secretive group called the Communist Party (Provisional Wing). T ...more | |
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Ellen Huet brought down the sex cult OneTaste with her reporting for Bloomberg in 2018. Her book, expanding on this reporting, appeared less than a year after its leaders were convicted on forced labor charges. OneTaste sold "orgasmic meditation," 15 ...more |
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| With so many leftists practicing yoga, I wanted to understand the overlap between yoga and far-right politics. But I found this book both too detailed and too vague. It offers numerous deep dives into early 20th-century yoga pioneers in the English-s ...more | |
“I give myself credit for having seen clearly in a number of important situations. In itself, this is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, goodwill, and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.”
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