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📖 Cults Like Us by Jane Borden (★★★★☆)

An "engrossing, unputdownable" (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes...

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📖 When the Clock Broke by John Ganz (★★★★☆)

One of The New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Barack Obama summer reading pick One of Publishers Weekly 's ten best books of 2024 A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today. With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated,...

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📖 Against Tech Oligarchy by JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine (★★★★★)

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with...

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