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Joseph’s 2025 Year in Books
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Joseph Stieb
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The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003
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Joseph Stieb
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Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut
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Yes, that's a great point. It's arguably the last unifying cultural product in the country! The conversation cuts many ways. ...more " |
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| An interesting look at how the NFL built itself into the world's wealthiest and America's most dominant sports league. Belson examines the rise of free agency, revenue sharing, TV deals, and the monetization of various other aspects of the league (ga ...more | |
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| this is probably a 3.5 for me, but I'll round up because only a few people in the world could have written this book and had it be not-terrible. The satirical element of the book is a bit obvious but it does get the point across. Bateman is such a re ...more | |
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| Maybe a 3.5 rounded up for me, as the ending became kind of trite and cheesy. This is a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim (or James)'s perspective, in which he's running away but also trying to rescue his family. I liked the first half a lot; there's a ...more | |
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Thanks! To some extent! I think the modern GOP is quite far from a Burkean temperament. But moderate Republicans might be closer in spirit to Burke.
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| I try to tackle one classic political text every year, and this year it was Burke's Reflections, widely considered a foundational text in conservative political thought. The book is really a long, long letter written to a French interlocutor quite ea ...more | |
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| Pretty fun book! I like these kinds of travelogue type books about fan mania in sports, and this one was cool because it was about a down period in Alabama football history. WSJ is a good writer who has a mix of droll detachment from the insanity and ...more | |
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| This felt kind of half-assed to me; something breathlessly composed in rush into print to be relevant. It wasn't clear to me what chapters served what function or what the thesis really was. Still, I've always liked Beinart, so I gave this a shot. He ...more | |
“What really has expanded is not so much a circle of empathy as a circle of rights—a commitment that other living things, no matter how distant or dissimilar, be safe from harm and exploitation. Empathy has surely been historically important in setting off epiphanies of concern for members of overlooked groups. But the epiphanies are not enough. For empathy to matter, it must goad changes in policies and norms that determine how the people in those groups are treated. At these critical moments, a newfound sensitivity to the human costs of a practice may tip the decisions of elites and the conventional wisdom of the masses. But as we shall see in the section on reason, abstract moral argumentation is also necessary to overcome the built-in strictures on empathy. The ultimate goal should be policies and norms that become second nature”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
