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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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| The main thing I learned about this book is that it is maddeningly difficult to connect Shakespeare's life and context to the content of his plays. He was, after all, someone who made his living writing a lot of plays. Shapiro details the political a ...more | |
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| A remarkable book, maybe the best combat/war memoir I've ever read (it's certainly up there). Leckie is a vivid, beautiful and funny narrator who communicates the pathos, bathos, and sheer grime of the Pacific War and life in the Marines. Leckie foug ...more | |
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| Thought this was fine. The book is pulpy and goes fast, but it does feel a bit corny even though books like this have obviously been hugely influential. The characters are pretty good, and there are some decent laughs. But I was expecting a better my ...more | |
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| Really good book! I thought the first half kind of meandered around too much, but I suppose SK had to provide background on the triangular trade for the general reader. I wasn't aware of the horrific story of the Zorg and its consequences for the tra ...more | |
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| This was wild, sprawling, darkly, confusing, and singular; a reflection of the Vietnam War in literature if there ever was one. In some ways, the book is kind of a mess, with some plot lines that overlap and others that's kind of drift off, a decent ...more | |
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Really useful and timely book. Nasr enhanced my understanding of Iranian grand strategy since the 80s considerably as well as my grasp on IRanian history. He makes a few big points in this fairly slim book: First, he identifies the Iran-Iraq War as th ...more |
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“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
