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What We're Reading

Weekly reviews of what’s on our bookshelves.

What We’re Reading: Hard Times in the Hill Country and Resilience

Cole Altom -

Selected Readings of Robert Caro By Robert Caro This past weekend, I was left alone for the first time in a long time thanks to the pandemic, standing sentry to our four dogs, including a puppy, two goats, an angry cat, several chickens and fish, and my own vices. With socializing out of the question, […]

What We’re Reading: American Generals and the Truth About Trade Wars

George Friedman -
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today  By Thomas E. Ricks This study of the evolution of U.S. generals is revealing of...

What We’re Reading: Russian Tragedy and Securing the Western Hemisphere

Ekaterina Zolotova -
Train to Samarkand By Yakhina Guzel Shamilevna “Train to Samarkand” is a new novel by Russian writer Guzel Yakhina, who gained notoriety in Russia after her...

What We’re Reading: A History of Uyghur Resistance

Valentina Jovanovski -
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land By Gardner Bovingdon In “The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land,” author and professor of Central Eurasian studies Gardner...

What We’re Reading: Taking Cyber Seriously

Phillip Orchard -
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War By Fred Kaplan A reader recommended Fred Kaplan's “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” to me,...

What We’re Reading: Capitalism’s Viability

Ryan Bridges -
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? By Robert Kuttner Almost two months ago, I praised Branko Milanovic for his ability to write a dystopian narrative about the...

What We’re Reading: Ottoman History

Ekaterina Zolotova -
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire By Jason Goodwin As the summer tourism season heats up after a long pause, books on...

What We’re Reading: Gold Digging

Valentina Jovanovski -
Toward the Midnight Sun By Eoin Dempsey As she makes the perilous journey north from Seattle to the Yukon, Anna Denton carries a heavy weight on...

What We’re Reading: After the Revolution

Cole Altom -
After the Revolution By Robert Evans Every Texan worth their salt knows that Texas fought a war of independence to become its own republic. That Texans...

What We’re Reading: The Holocaust and Capitalism

George Friedman -
Generations of the Holocaust Martin S. Bergmann and Milton E. Jucovy I sometimes read books on Judaism, because, well, I’m Jewish. There’s a part of Judaism...

What We’re Reading: The Evolution of Money and the Russian State

Ekaterina Zolotova -
The History of the Russian State By Boris Akunin “The History of the Russian State” is a project by Boris Akunin – the pen name of...

What We’re Reading: Goodbye to Budapest

Valentina Jovanovski -
Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising By Margarita Morris Hungary was far from free after World War II. Despite the collapse of the...
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