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Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

EU politics

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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J. Malcolm Garcia – Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful: Afghan Stories

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Book Review by Ron Jacobs Cross-posted from Counterpunch. J. Malcolm Garcia is a journalist. Then again, he is so much more. He travels to lands besieged by war and imperial economic policies and exposes the […]

Economics

The Paradox of Debt by Richard Vague

August 15, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Steve Keen Very rarely do I review a book and find that the best way to convey its significance is to quote, verbatim, its first four paragraphs: In 2020, during the darkest […]

National Politics

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

August 2, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Geoffrey Roberts Are historians, as Serhii Plokhy suggests, really the worst interpreters of current events, except for everyone else? As a historian myself, I would like to believe so. It’s a comforting […]

Solutions

Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, by Darrin M. McMahon

July 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Branko Milanović, cross-posted from his blog. The ideological history of the idea of equality (“Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea”) is an ambitious, erudite and well-written book by Darrin M. McMahon. […]

Climate Crisis

Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System by Paddy Le Flufy

June 11, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Manda Scott We’re in the midst of a polycrisis. If generalised, unaligned AI doesn’t terminate us, the oceans seem likely to die before we do, and if we manage to survive both, […]

Corruption

Taking Control – Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit by Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, Lee Jones, Peter Ramsay

May 21, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 2

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose We shall soon be marking the seventh anniversary of the Brexit Referendum of 23 June 2016. The four authors of this book were part of the Full Brexit collective […]

Climate Crisis

Breaking Together – a freedom-loving response to collapse by Jem Bendell

May 11, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Andrew Medhurst “This book provides…the basis for freeing ourselves from old compromises, and exploring what we might do with the rest of our lives.” Jem Bendell It’s no exaggeration to claim that […]

Economics

Branko Milanović – Peter Turchin: End Times

April 13, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

For almost two decades, Peter Turchin has been involved, with many colleagues and co-authors, in an epochal project: to figure out, using quantifiable evidence, what are the forces that lead to the rise, and more […]

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Climate Crisis

Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

EU politics

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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