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What We’re Reading: America at War and a Killer in the Streets of Bucharest

A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II Maury Klein “A Call to Arms” is the story of the reindustrialization of the United States after the Great Depression deindustrialized it. Deindustrialization is perhaps the wrong term, since the industrial plant still existed. What was gone were the customers and the workers, who were […]

What We’re Reading: Moon Missions and Commercial Espionage

13 Minutes to the Moon Produced by BBC This past weekend, on the night of the summer solstice, which happens to be my favorite day of...

What We’re Reading: The Promise and a Dystopic Collection

Söz Written by Ethem Ozisik While observing social distancing, my family spent a lot of time watching TV. Since the beginning of May, they have been...

What We’re Reading: Political Evolutions and Middle Eastern Rivalries

The End of History and the Last Man By Francis Fukuyama In the 2008 German film “Die Welle” (The Wave), based on a real-life social experiment...

What We’re Reading: Colombian History and Croatian Wars

Colombia: Democracy Under Assault By Harvey F. Kline This book did not get off to a good start for me, and quite frankly, it never really...

What We’re Reading: Canada Obscura and Korean Tech

The Secret Life of Canada Produced by CBC Over the past couple of months, I’ve been searching for new podcasts to listen to, after running out...

What We’re Reading: In Bardo and in Exile

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What We’re Reading: Twin Crises of the 1950s

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What We’re Reading: Familiar Geopolitical Material

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What We’re Reading: Lenin and Wilson and Zombies

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What We’re Reading: A Prelude to Fascism and a Game of Strategy

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What We’re Reading: Binge Watching in Isolation

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