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)