Weekly Reading (2020/07/23)
Selections from the Web:
- Adam Tooze: Whose century?
- Brian Callaci: Digital Scab, Digital Snitch
- David Roth: How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat
- Jane Mayer: How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic
- Jedediah Britton-Purdy: What John Rawls Missed
- Moira Weigel: The Pioneers of the Misinformation Industry
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Robert A. Caro: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (2012)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Elizabeth Popp Berman: “What Should Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Starving the Beast, the Reagan Tax Cuts, and Modes of Historical Explanation,” Contemporary Sociology, (2019)
- David L. Swartz: “The Academic Trumpists: American Professors Who Support the Trump Presidency,” Theory and Society, (2020)
- Stephanie Dick: “AfterMath: The Work of Proof in the Age of Human–Machine Collaboration,” Isis, (2011)