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)