Dan Vergano Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan Vergano

"Facing illiberal democracies" Review of Democracy Against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall, by Tucker, Aviezer. Polity. 204 pp. https://t.co/mr8dMZcbO0 "A final chapter sees a future for liberal democrats, but with conditions." https://t.co/NYRII0nxCm

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"Living (and dying) in America" - https://t.co/xeOkcuCOXr A review of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, by Evan Osnos

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RT @ReginaLabelle: Review of ”The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth” in ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ points…

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Review of A History of Brainwashing, from Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale "a useful historical overview of controversies about brainwashing, from the Cold War to fake news spread by supporters of Donald Trump."

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A good thread by Ed. A good recent book on this is Sandro Galea's The Contagion Next Time -- https://t.co/QSxM1dGUbH A BU dean, Galea has been writing about the systemic weakness in US public health for decades. https://t.co/mSK1QkMvZ2

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Book Review: Marc Schuilenburg, Hysteria: Crime, Media and Politics - https://t.co/4oqxfm2vzs "social media enables the spread of hysteria" "... the enigma that hysteria still keeps popping up, gripping us with excessive emotions, when we have never had it so good."

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looks like a first step toward Larry Niven & Steven Barnes' 'Dream Park' a sci-fi murder mystery long begging to be made into a CGI movie Disney Takes Visitors to a Galaxy Far, Far Away https://t.co/x2JL5f5JN6

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RT @PublicDomainRev: Entering the public domain in 2022: A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh published in 1926. More info behind window 1 of ou…

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Reading Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight, out last year. A terrific history of the Espionage Act, Palmer Raids, and look into the hate-filled, still festering, heart of anti-immigrant Amerika. https://t.co/0qfnTusuAx

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RT @daniel_dsj2110: Saritha Ramakrishna reviews: Andrew Ross's "Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing": https://t.co/4CCd5unoj0