Weekly Reading (01/26/2020)
Selections from the Web:
- Audrey Winn: “The Algorithm Made Us Do It”: How Bosses at Instacart “Mathwash” Labor Exploitation
- Ed Burmila: Democrats Should Embrace a Few Purity Tests
- Greg Afinogenov: Tenure Is Not Worth Fighting For
- J. W. Mason: What Should be Universal and Free?
- John Ganz: Andrew Yang and the New American Tories
- Letícia Duarte: Meet the Intellectual Founder of Brazil’s Far Right
- Madeleine Wattenbarger: Business as Usual
- Mark Dery: Nostradamus of the Obvious
- Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein: Barons of Crap
- Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein: Everyone Wants to Be a Bank
- Thomas Meaney: Trumpism After Trump
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Claudio Saunt: West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (2014)
- J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World (1962)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Alex Lichtenstein: “From the Editor’s Desk: 1619 and All That,” The American Historical Review, (2020)
- Joanna Radin: “The Speculative Present: How Michael Crichton Colonized the Future of Science and Technology,” Osiris, (2019)
- Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy : “Seeing Like a Market,” Socio-Economic Review, (2017)