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Nathaniel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nathaniel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Thai Jones traces his family history back through 3-4 generations, but this multigenerational saga never feels self-indulgent, because this family tree sits right at the center of U.S. radical politics. Jones's parents were leading members of the Weat ...more |
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| This is one of those books where the title is a work of art — I hope whoever came up with it gets credit. "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism" proves its thesis with lots of empirical data: in the Stalinist states, where everyone's basic needs ...more | |
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| Last year I read a biography of Kurt Vonnegut. I learned that he spent twenty years trying to write this book — his whole career was building up to it. I read Slaughterhouse-Five in high school (I think), and I remembered it as my least favorite Vonn ...more | |
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| Virtually all historically knowledgeable people recognize that the Moscow Trials and the Great Purges were horrific crimes against socialism based on shameless lies. Yet once in a while, you still encounter Stalinists who believe that millions of Com ...more | |
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| An introduction to the Palestinian Left written in German might immediately arouse suspicion. But the author, Thomas Schmidinger, is an Austrian political science professor at a university in Iraqi Kurdistan who was active in the early Green Party in ...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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