BOOK REVIEWThe Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distractionby Jamie Kreiner 2023 About the AuthorJamie Kreiner is a historian of the early Middle Ages and associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. Her work on the early Middle Ages examines the politics, ethics, and scientific sensibilities of those underappreciated centuries. About … Continue reading The Wandering Mind
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War By Other Means
BOOK REVIEWWar By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistanceby Daniel Akst 2022 About the AuthorDaniel Akst was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson … Continue reading War By Other Means
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The Leak
BOOK REVIEWThe Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratoryby Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond 2022 About the AuthorsRobert P. Crease is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, where he has taught for more than three decades. He is the author of The … Continue reading The Leak
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How the West Brought War to Ukraine
BOOK REVIEWHow the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastropheby Benjamin Abelow 2022 About the AuthorBenjamin Abelow has worked in Washington, DC, writing, lecturing, and lobbying Congress about nuclear arms policy. He holds a B.A. in modern European history from the … Continue reading How the West Brought War to Ukraine
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Hitler’s Trojan Horse
BOOK REVIEWHitler's Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945by Nigel West 2023 About the AuthorNIGEL WEST is an intelligence expert and critically-acclaimed author. Such is his depth of knowledge in these fields that The Sunday Times noted that, 'His information is often so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of … Continue reading Hitler’s Trojan Horse
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Tasting History
BOOK REVIEWTasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipesby Max Miller and Ann Volkwein 2023 About the AuthorMax Miller is the creator and host of the viral digital series Tasting History with Max Miller on YouTube. Max’s channel has been covered in outlets like America’s Test Kitchen, ABC’s Localish, Chowhound, Foodsided, GLAAD, KTLA … Continue reading Tasting History
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Poverty, by America
BOOK REVIEWPoverty, by Americaby Matthew Desmond 2023 About the AuthorMatthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth … Continue reading Poverty, by America
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