Weekly Reading (02/24/2020)
Selections from the Web:
- Corey Pein: Class Carpetbagger
- Corey Robin: The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
- David Kaib: The Most Basic Fact About Politics is Slack
- Jillian Foley: The Strange Quest to Crack the Voynich Code
- Kathryn Joyce: Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life
- Max Read: Peter Thiel’s Latest Venture Is the American Government
- Talia Lavin: To Dream of a Jewish President
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)
- Sarah T. Roberts: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (2019)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Joseph Fronczak: “The Fascist Game: Transnational Political Transmission and the Genesis of the U.S. Modern Right,” Journal of American History, (2018)
- Megan Black: “Prospecting the World: Landsat and the Search for Minerals in Space Age Globalization,” Journal of American History, (2019)
- Patrik Aspers, Petter Bengtsson, and Alexander Dobeson : “Market Fashioning,” Theory and Society, (2020)
- Verónica Martínez-Matsuda: “For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration’s Competing Visions for Farm Workers’ Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s,” Journal of American History, (2019)