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Books, music, etc. from August 2015

September 1, 2015 by Luke Leave a Comment

Books

  • MacAskill, Doing Good Better
  • Coyne, Faith vs. Fact
  • Shanahan, The Technological Singularity
  • Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People
  • Kissinger, World Order
  • Harris, @War
  • Silberman, NeuroTribes
  • Krebs, Spam Nation

López’s Dog Whistle Politics was rarely persuasive. A lot of stuff like “Reagan said these two race-baiting things, and then people voted for him and didn’t mind his regressive tax policies, because they were racist and fell for his dog whistle statements.” I assume lots of Americans are fairly racist, and I assume politicians use racist dog whistles from time to time, but I don’t know how important those dog whistles are for American politics, and López didn’t put much effort into supporting his claims on that question.

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature (2014)
  • Cut Chemist, The Audience’s Listening (2006)
  • Mal Waldron, Up Popped the Devil (1973)
  • Patrick Carney, “Bojack’s Theme” (2014)
  • The Weeknd, House of Balloons (2011)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  • Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky (2012)
  • Joe Swanberg, Digging for Fire (2015)

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