One part I love about 's podcast is his guests recommend three books at the end. I had a chance to recommend three on the Podcast I just did with him, will link to my Goodreads reviews of them in the next three tweets.
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Who We Are and How We Got Here by uses ancient genetic data to paint a complex picture of the history of humanity. He manages to charts the ups and downs of inequality hundreds of thousands of years ago. Amazing science.
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.'s The WEIRDest People in the World uses genetics, history, evolutionary biology, economics, and more to understand the causes and consequences of the culture he calls Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic.
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This culture begat the world of the The Myth of the Rational Voter by about why it is rational for voters to be uninformed (because individually they don't decide outcomes), how that results in bad policies, and what can be done about it.
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P.S. I limited myself to nonfiction for . But I read more fiction. One of the best novels I read last year was The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by . (Don Quixote also very good but it was published before 2021.)
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P.P.S. I haven’t been posting any Goodreads reviews lately because I’ve been a lot more work, somewhat more tweeting, and I’ve finally gotten around to reading Gravity’s Rainbow.
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