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Book Review: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
In the face of soaring wealth inequality, Ingrid Robeyns‘ Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth calls for restrictions on individual fortunes. Robeyns puts forward a strong moral case for...
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Book Review: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
In Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, Alberto Toscano unpacks the rise of contemporary far-right movements that have emerged amid capitalist crises and appropriated liberal...
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Book Review: In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea
Jonathan White‘s In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea examines how changing political conceptions of the future have impacted democracy, arguing that contemporary challenges like economic...
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Book Review | The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and...
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draws from case...
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Book Review: The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses,...
In The Big Con, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington claim that our overreliance on the consulting industry has negative consequences for society, inhibiting knowledge transfer and corporate and...
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Book Review | Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the...
In Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy, Neil Lee proposes abandoning the Silicon Valley-style innovation hub, which concentrates its wealth, for alternative,...
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Book Review | The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism...
In The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China, Ya-Wen Lei explores how China has reshaped its economy and society in recent decades, from the era of Chen Yun to the...
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Book Review | Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics
In Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics, Toby Seddon analyses drug control policy and argues for a paradigm shift that decentres the West and recognises China’s historical and contemporary...
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Book Review | The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and...
In The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen contends that the focus on access in design around disability perpetuates inequalities, arguing instead...
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Book Review | Who’s Afraid of Gender?
In Who’s Afraid of Gender?, Judith Butler confronts contemporary attacks on gender from right-wing movements that have undermined the rights of women, queer and trans people in areas from reproductive...
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Book Review | One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax
In One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines human interrelatedness with, and responsibility within, the Earth System from a decolonial perspective. Drawing on a...
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America’s informal empire – what really went wrong in the Middle East
In this edited excerpt from the introduction to What Really Went Wrong, Fawaz A Gerges argues that US interventionism during the Cold War – especially in Iran and Egypt – steered the Middle East away...
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Book Review | Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
In Code Dependent, Madhumita Murgia considers the impact of AI, and technology more broadly, on marginalised groups. Though its case studies are compelling, Marie Oldfield finds the book lacking in...
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Book Review | A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-ups,...
In A Crash Course on Crises, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis survey the macroeconomics of financial crises, examining the before, during, and after stages of collapses through theoretical...
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Book Review | The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for...
The Culture Trap by Derron Wallace compares the academic experiences of second-generation Black Caribbean youth in New York City and London, arguing that “ethnic expectations” shape students’ outcomes...
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Book Review | The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
In The Road to Freedom, Joseph Stiglitz considers the relationship between capitalism and freedom, evaluating democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society. According to Danny Dorling, the...
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Book Review | China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is...
Kerry Brown‘s China Incorporated examines how China’s rise has reshaped the global political order, previously dominated by the US. Examining the impacts of Cold War modernisation paradigms and...
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Book Review | The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
In The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini explores the origins of patriarchy, debunking biological determinism and highlighting the role of nation building, social norms, and violence in...
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Book Review | The Bankers’ New Clothes
In a newly expanded version of their book, The Bankers’ New Clothes, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig demystify banking and expose how current financial regulatory practices enrich bankers while...
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Book Review | Fugitive Feminism
In Fugitive Feminism, Akwugo Emejulu probes the concept of humanity through the lens of Black feminist thought (particularly Audre Lorde) and reveals its intrinsic exclusions and biases. Deftly...
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