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Nathaniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Abraham Lincoln is not a popular figure on the U.S. Left today — his racism is too well known. He did not aim to abolish slavery so much as contain it to the South. But he did not waver in his defense of the Union, and the unfolding of the Civil War ...more | |
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| I've led reading groups on Lenin's State and Revolution at least four times over the years, and I continue to love this book. Written while Lenin was hiding from the counterrevolution in 1917, this biting polemic gets at the central difference betwee ...more | |
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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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“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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