Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Dylan Schleicher
We have inherited and continue to live in a caste system, one that was built on and is still based on an arbitrary difference between people—the color of their skin.
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Editor's Choice
Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
By Dylan Schleicher
Zephyr Teachout explains how monopoly power is a form of government—and a form of tyranny.
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Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
By Dylan Schleicher
Change is not only occurring in the world around us, but in the worlds within us. What we’re going through now is going to change the story and alter the shape of our lives.
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
By Dylan Schleicher
A free press is foundational to a free society. We have gone too far in trading ours for the Silicon Valley notion that information wants to be free, even as Silicon Valley has built some of the world’s largest, most monopolistic corporations monetizing that supposedly “free” information.
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Editor's Choice
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes stared down two world wars and the Great Depression, and in response offered hope and optimism to the world through sound economic policy.
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
By Dylan Schleicher
Steven Johnson explains an inflection point in economic, political, and human history with a tale of high crimes on the high seas.
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Editor's Choice
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
By Dylan Schleicher
No, capitalism didn't cause this mess. But maybe we can use the many crises we are in as an opportunity to reimagine it so it stops contributing to the problems we face.
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The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
By Dylan Schleicher
Everyone in baseball and in business, an interest in either or in the way we think, should own this book.
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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By Dylan Schleicher
Valerie Hansen's new book will change the way you view the world of antiquity, and the world of today.
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Editor's Choice
Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
By Dylan Schleicher
The time we are living through feels extremely weird. Maybe a book on the strengths of being weird can help us through.