Peace in the Age of Chaos – Interview with Steve Killelea
I thought I’d get through Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future in a matter of hours. Instead, this 272-page book authored by Steve Killelea (published by Hardie Grant, 2020) took me days. I
Trump, the Republican Party and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol: An American Progressive’s View
The Rise of Republican Fascism and the Ethics of Resistance: A Review of Barack Obama, A Promised Land (New York: Random House, 2020) and Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking, a Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (New York: Simon &
Capitalism is Broken, Here’s How to Fix It
Book Review “ People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent ” by Joseph. E. Stiglitz (published by W.W. Norton & Co, April 23, 2019) Joseph Stiglitz’s latest book, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age
What if Trump Wins the 2020 election? “America 2034”: A Cautionary Tale
Book Review and Interview with Author Jonathan Greenberg What if, after the political horrors and social cruelties of his first presidential term, Donald Trump should win the 2020 election? That is the premise of Jonathan Greenberg’s new book America 2034: Utopia
The Soul of a Tech Titan: Satya Nadella book review
MICROSOFT MAKES A STUNNING TURNAROUND BOOK REVIEW: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella published by HarperBusiness September 26, 2017, 293 pages Hit Refresh, the best-selling memoir of its new CEO, Satya Nadella, aims for
American Leadership at Risk – And How to Win It Back
Updated 8 March 2018 Book Review “Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable” by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Author), Bernie Sanders (Foreword) Columbia University Press, February 7, 2017 When Professor Sachs, one of the world’s most influential economists, wrote the book
Unchain America
Book Review: "CAPTURED: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy" by Sheldon Whitehouse (Author) and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett (Contributor) Published 21 February 2017, New Press, 272 pages American democracy is in deep trouble, chained down by corporate power. This, in a nutshell, is the argument made
Trump Populism: A Threat to Democracy ?
Book review: What is Populism? By Jan-Werner Müller University of Pennsylvania Press, August 22, 2016. 136 pages. From Brexit, the referendum that kicked the UK out of the EU, to Trump’s election predicated on “draining the swamp” in Washington and making “America
Slumming it and The Value of Tourism
Book Review: Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty by Fabian Frenzel, 232 pages, (distributed for Zed Books, 15 June 2016) The UN predicts that by 2050, one in three people will live in a slum, perhaps this is
Our Explosive Digital Future – an Internet Pioneer’s Vision
BOOK REVIEW: “The Third Wave - An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future” by Steve Case When Steve Case’s book came out on 5 April 2016 (publisher: Simon & Schuster), it was an immediate New York Times and Wall Street Journal sensation,
‘The Refusal Of Work’
"THE REFUSAL OF WORK: THE THEORY & PRACTICE OF RESISTANCE TO WORK" by David Frayne, 270 pages, Zed Books (2015) Is work a joy or something we, like Dolly Parton in her hit single, must do each day from 9 to
Tight and Slack – A Millennial search
Life Models: “Tight and Slack” and the Search for Transcendence. Karan Bajaj Talks about Life and his Latest Novel "The Yoga of Max’s Discontent", published by Riverhead Books/Penguin House, out on 3 May 2016 Book Review and Author Interview A