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My best 2020 reads:
1. On Corruption in America, @Sarah_Chayes. Understanding how corruption, at both the local and global level, drives conflict, instability, and insecurity is absolutely essential if we’re going to end endless wars and repair democracy.
1. On Corruption in America, @Sarah_Chayes. Understanding how corruption, at both the local and global level, drives conflict, instability, and insecurity is absolutely essential if we’re going to end endless wars and repair democracy.
Chayes has been at the forefront of charting out this challenge and the need to confront it both at home and abroad. Importantly pulls no punches in describing the corruption in our own political system which we tolerate by redefining it as "not corruption."
2. Tomorrow the World, by @stephenwertheim. Excavating the history of how “internationalism” came to be redefined as “global military supremacy,” Wertheim basically explains to the fish in the DC foreign policy fishbowl what water is...
Wertheim doesn't offer just a critique, but also an alternative approach for American global engagement that isn’t based on military domination and endless wars. DC’s worst people hate this book, which is an additional reason for you to buy it.
3. Against the Web, Michael Brooks. This dismantling of “Intellectual Dark Web” frauds is intellectually rigorous, very funny, and above all, deeply humane -- the things that made Michael so great, and his sudden passing earlier this year such an enormous tragedy...
With Michael's death, we lost not only an excellent human being but one of our smartest, boldest, and most compassionate voices for a new progressive internationalism. Let us carry on the work.
4. @JamaalBowmanNY’s letter to Rabbi Weiss. Then-candidate Bowman responded to criticism of his positions on Israel-Palestine with a beautiful, courageous, and unapologetic declaration of commitment to racial justice, equality, and human security everywhere, without exception...
This is the Democratic Party we can have if we want it. https://riverdalepress.com/stories/bowman-to-weiss-we-have-so-much-to-learn-from-each-other,72045
