Weekly Reading (01/07/2018)
Selections from the Web:
Politics:
- Ajay Singh Chaudhary: In the Court of the Centrist King: Emmanuel Macron and Authoritarian Liberalism
- Rachel Bryan: The Duality of the Southern Thing
History:
- Allison Meier: How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
- Eric Foner: The Embryo Caesar (Review of Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering The Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis Jr.)
- Joe Thompson: Four Revolutions: Part 1: A Concise History Of The Quartz Revolution
- Neal Ascherson: Big Man Walking (Review of Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman)
Labor
- Danny Vinik: The Real Future of Work
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- William Taubman: Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Nancy Fraser: “A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi,” New Left Review, (2013)
- Perry Anderson: “Origins of the Present Crisis,” New Left Review, (1964)
- Seán Ó Riain: “Time–Space Intensification: Karl Polanyi, the Double Movement, and Global Informational Capitalism,” Theory and Society, (2006)
- Yakov Feygin: “Dreaming of a Humane Plan: International Expert Networks and the Globalization of Soviet Economic Thought,” (Manuscript, 2017)