el dang wants to read The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi
The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a …
Recommended by a recent Sinica Podcast guest.
The guest was one of the authors of The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy. On the strength of that interview, I think that's probably a very good book too. But it's so much about things I already believe that I'm not putting it on my own wishlist. I only manage to get through 1-2 nonfiction books a year, need to save that for things that aren't just going to be making me feel clever by confirming my existing beliefs.
The guest was one of the authors of The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy. On the strength of that interview, I think that's probably a very good book too. But it's so much about things I already believe that I'm not putting it on my own wishlist. I only manage to get through 1-2 nonfiction books a year, need to save that for things that aren't just going to be making me feel clever by confirming my existing beliefs.