How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
The architect Christopher Alexander died recently. As the (surprisingly good) New York Times obituary described him: [Alexander] believed that ordinary people, not just trained architects, should have...
7 Jul 202256min
Current Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney
The bestselling novels of Sally Rooney have been subject to endless chatter. She has been hailed as the great millennial novelist by some, her work called "extraordinarily lucid, gorgeous and nuanced....
7 Jul 20221h 1min
How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?
One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking books of our time is Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso) by Troy Vettese and Drew Pe...
7 Jul 202257min
Inside the Real World of Union Organizing
Daisy Pitkin has been in the labor movement for two decades and is the author of the new book On the Line A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, which tells the sto...
7 Jul 202246min
How the War In Ukraine Can Be Ended
Anatol Lieven is an international relations expert and journalist who serves as a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His books include Russia and Ukraine and most recent...
7 Jul 202251min
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”
Cryptocurrencies have been hyped in Super Bowl ads and promoted by everyone from Bill Clinton to Glenn Greenwald to Spike Lee to Larry David to New York City mayor Eric Adams (who has pledged to turn ...
7 Jul 202253min
How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)
Kate Raworth is an economist at Oxford University whose book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist is a radical attempt to rethink foundational concepts in economics an...
31 Mai 202250min
The Terrifying and Stupid Ideas of "Neoreactionaries"
A recent article in Vanity Fair about the National Conservatism Conference profiles figures on the "New Right," including Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, Blake Masters, and a deeply unpleasant individual cal...
31 Mai 202249min
