Gavin Jacobson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Adam Hochschild reviews Patrick Weil's 'The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psycho-biography of Woodrow Wilson' https://t.co/QoXzGM8fIH

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Longtermist philosophers like MacAskill act as real-life versions of Hari Seldon in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, who tries to guide the long-term future of humanity. https://t.co/muSSQD3s0l

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@DanielZamoraV Agree. This is the question Mike Davis was trying to answer in Planet of Slums

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“I used to half-joke that Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit was real science because you could use it to predict what Kanye West was going to do next.” https://t.co/L2a9b3G2pI

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@re_colston Not forgetting Michael Mann's tetralogy on 'The Sources of Social Power'

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@Matthuber78 Dylan Riley writes a few observations about this in his forthcoming ‘Microverses’

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Great piece by @phoebraithwaite on Vron Ware's 'Return of a Native' and "England’s post-colonial melancholia". https://t.co/FbLZyg3CTy

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"Disorder [has] a larger role for geopolitics; perhaps this owes something to her column for the New Statesman or her role on the Talking Politics podcast, where she provided a hard-nosed foil for David Runciman’s airy speculations". https://t.co/Ywdie86NFA

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"The Afghan state is not so much collapsing before our eyes as revealing itself as a fiction." Dispatch from Kabul by @MacaesBruno https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/08/afghanistan-reviled-president-being-exposed-powerless

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Terrific list by @lionel_trolling. The only title I would add is Victoria di Grazia’s ‘The Perfect Fascist’, which is a staggering work imo https://t.co/PGbSO98Kyt