From the bookshelf: August 2024
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in August 2024.
Author: DJB
A voracious curiosity for the built environments of the world
G.E. Kidder Smith’s life work captures a transformational era in world history.
Hot bluegrass as summer cools down
Liam Purcell, Molly Tuttle, and Old Crow Medicine Show: great music to end the summer.
The birth of a new imperial order
A new work on the CIA highlights the often unintended and disastrous effects of unaccountable power.
A party returns to its roots
The policies that make up the care economy tap into a historical sense of community.
Drivel and distortion
The country’s political journalists are unserious and cannot seem to rise to the moment.
Observations from . . . August 2024
A summary of posts included in the MORE TO COME newsletter during August 2024.
The mysteries of our daily experience
Sometimes we need to stop over thinking and tend to the ordinary and mundane.
Recovering the roots of American democracy
As we craft a redemption story for America, may we be guided by hope, joy, and a fierce moral imagination.
Freedom
The rest of us are finally reclaiming the country and its symbols from right-wing extremists.
MORE TO COME... 