{"id":6906,"date":"2025-05-29T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:01:51","slug":"light-reading-to-save-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/light-reading-to-save-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Reading to Save Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know I&#8217;m a power reader.\u00a0 Amongst the &#8220;pleasure reading&#8221; options, I&#8217;ve been spending more and more time reading work that intersects with the political and social challenges facing the United States. I&#8217;ve shared this with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project2029.me\/\">Project 2029<\/a> group that I&#8217;m working with, and thought there may be wider interest. I&#8217;ll probably add to this post as things get read. If you have suggestions, I&#8217;m happy to hear them!<\/p>\n<p>Also, join Project 2029! We could use the help.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant -George Lakoff<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gutenberg Galaxy -Marshall McLuhan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amusing Ourselves to Death -Neil Postman<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economics<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World on Fire -Amy Chua<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything -Naomi Klein<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Krugman\u2019s Substack:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Krugman | Substack<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feeding the Machine, The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI -James Muldoon, et al<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Half-Earth Socialism -Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doughnut Economics -Kate Raworth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It -Robert B. Reich<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Age of Surveillance Capitalism -Shoshana Zuboff<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emergency Management\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme Cities -Ashley Dawson<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything is Tuberculosis -John Green<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if We Get It Right? -Ayana Elizabeth Johnson<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last Fire Season -Manjula Martin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis -Samantha Montano<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paradise Built in Hell -Rebecca Solnit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America\u2019s Culture -Chip Colwell<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Veins of Latin America -Eduardo Galeano<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crazy as Hell &#8211; Hoke S. Glover III &amp; V. Efua Prince<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stamped from the Beginning -Ibram X. Kendi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myth America -Kevin M. Kruse (actually, just about any of his books)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Democracies Die &#8211; Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Founding Myth -Andrew L. Seidel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great River -Boyce Upholt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Age of Revolutions -Fareed Zakaria<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizing<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Resistance &#8211; Erica Chenoweth &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/240678278_Why_Civil_Resistance_Works_The_Strategic_Logic_of_Nonviolent_Conflict\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free link\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get on the Job and Organize -Jaz Brisack<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let This Radicalize You &#8211; Kelly Hayes &amp; Mariame Kaba<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politics<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Origins of Totalitarianism -Hannah Arendt<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democracy Awakening -Heather Cox Richardson<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There Is No Place for Us Working and Homeless in America -Brian Goldstone<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Language of Climate Politics -Genevieve Guenther<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Learned Hand (referenced during Cory Booker\u2019s Filibuster) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/research-learn\/spirit-liberty-speech-judge-learned-hand-1944\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Spirit of Liberty&#8221; Speech by Judge Learned Hand, 1944<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America Last -Jacob Heilbrunn<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hit\u2019em Where It Hurts -Rachel Bitecofer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Death of Truth -Steven Brill<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruin Their Crops on the Ground -Andrea Freeman<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Agenda -Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America -Crawford Gribben<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiding in Plain Sight, They Knew, View from Flyover Country -Sarah Kendzior<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tightrope -Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tyranny of the Minority -Steven Levitsky &amp; Daniel Ziblatt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes &#8211; Leah Litman<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Most Tolerant Little Town -Rachel Louise Martin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law -Elie Mystal<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arbitrary Lines. How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it -M. Nolan Gray<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recoding America -Jennifer Pahlka<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Highest Law in the Land -Jessica Pishko<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Stand Up to a Dictator -Maria Ressa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White Rural Rage -Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class -Sarah Smarsh<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mutual Aid -Dean Spade<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tyranny -Timothy Snyder (short)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Ice Is Gone -Paul Bierman<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s Left -Malcolm Harris<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serviceberry -Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hidden Systems -Dan Nott (graphic novel format)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Weight of Nature -Clayton Page Aldern<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cows Save the Planet -Judith D. Schwartz<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves -Nicola Twilley<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know I&#8217;m a power reader.\u00a0 Amongst the &#8220;pleasure reading&#8221; options, I&#8217;ve been spending more and more time reading work that intersects with the political and social challenges facing the United States. 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