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Wants to read Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing

Finished reading Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

Wants to read The Curse of Chalion

Wants to read The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity

Finished reading City of Blades

Rated Even Zombie Killers Get The Blues 8/10

An interesting take on the zombie apocalypse genre, especially for military buffs.

Wants to read Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Wants to read The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

Wants to read House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

Wants to read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Rated Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 8/10

Brain-bendy in the manner of those optical illusions where you think you're seeing a vase and then you realize it's two faces and you can't unsee the faces. The overall theme is that "racism" isn't a problem caused by "race," but rather the opposite - "race" is a concept used to justify and offer a basis for "racism." A very academic and sociological but sharply and brightly argued series of essays, challenging and eye-opening, drawing on foundational sociologists like Durkheim, DuBois and Weber to explain how race isn't some pre-existing fact about the world, but rather a retroactive justification for oppression. The comparison with "witchcraft" is quite deliberate and even explicitly spelled out in one essay. What the authors do very successfully is *describe* how their ideas operate in practice, and the ideological implications, without having to point out that the net effect of "racecraft" is monstrous, leading to not just absurdity but real suffering and violence. Highly recommend.

Wants to read War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

Wants to read The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

Wants to read The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology

Wants to read Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present

Finished reading Clariel

Finished reading Islands in the Net

Reading Scammer

Rated Pimp: The Story of My Life 10/10

Rated The Triumph of Caesar 6/10

Wants to read The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

Rated A Murder on the Appian Way 6/10

Finished reading Realware

Wants to read The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going

Wants to read Women and Gender in Islam