Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia by Ben Bland
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: LOWY INSTITUTE PAPER
Although he has dominated Indonesian politics for years, President Joko Widodo remains a beguiling figure. He has consistently defied both his sternest critics and his strongest supporters. A brilliant instinctive politician, Jokowi, as he is known, was resoundingly re-elected in 2019. However, he has s ...Show more
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans
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Category: Current Affairs
If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now."This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man.The history of ...Show more
Democracy for Sale - Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
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Category: Current Affairs
'If you're concerned about the health of British democracy, read this book - it is thorough, gripping and vitally important' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland. Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild ...Show more
Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
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Category: Current Affairs
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Current Affairs
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
Cynical Theories - How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose & James A. Lindsay
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Category: Current Affairs
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ...Show more
Manias Panics and Crashes - A History of Financial Crises (Revised & Updated) by Aliber, Robert Z : Kindleberger, Charles P
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Category: Current Affairs
Disloyal - A Memoir - The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
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Category: Current Affairs
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney And Personal Advisor--The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval OfficeOnce Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staun ...Show more
Head Hand Heart - The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
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Category: Current Affairs
A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to Head (cognitive), Hand (manual/craft) and Heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies they have got out of kilter. One form of human aptitude -cognitive ability - has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive ...Show more
She Said: The New York Times Bestseller by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
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Category: Current Affairs
On 5 October 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. Hollywood was talking as never before. Kantor and Twohey outmanoeuvred Harvey Weinstein, his team of defenders and private investigators, convincing some of the most famous women in t ...Show more
Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
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Category: Current Affairs
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
Culture Warlords - My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
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Category: Current Affairs
"Lavin writes like her hands are on fire, forcing us to take a hard look at our ugliest truths." - Pamela Collof, The New York Times Magazine & Pro Publica Talia Lavin is every fascist's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic young Jewish woman, with the online investigative know-how to expose the ...Show more