Arendt has a discursive style that I find hard to stay engaged, so I only made it through the first four chapter.

Overview of the landscape and sociology of the “New Right” written by someone who is at minimum a fellow traveller. Michael Malice (which I am assuming is a pseudonym since the author points out many times that he is a Soviet Jew). The book is interesting in that it is a look at the New Right from someone who is somewhat sympathetic to their worldview. Malice is himself an Anarcho-Capitalist in the tradition of Murray Rothbard so he at least has many of the same “enemies” (mainly the Progressive…

Story of the 2008 global financial crises as told by the principal responders in the US government: Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve), Tim Geithner (President of the New York Fed) and Hank Paulson (Secretary of the Treasury). Primarily an exculpation of their actions during the crisis so take it for what it’s worth. The one argument put forwarded that I hadn’t heard (mostly because of my ignorance, not because it hasn’t been made) is that the intention was never to let Lehman…