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Category: Current Events

Chip War by Chris Miller

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023
Topics: Business / Finance, Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.2/10. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller Book about the history of computer chips and international geopolitics that has become entangled with the processes of manufacturing them. The COVID pandemic has highlighted the fragility of the computer chip supply chain: chips require a complex network of hundreds…

Moonshot by Albert Bourla

Posted on December 21, 2022December 21, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.5/10. Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Dr. Albert Bourla Book by the CEO of Pfizer on the story of how the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was made. Most of the events in this book will be familiar to anybody who has been following the news for the past three years,…

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen

Posted on March 14, 2021April 10, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction, World

Rating: 7.9/10. Summary Book about American’s involvement in the Middle East. The author is an American journalist who stationed in turkey, and discovered surprising things about how the locals viewed her country. For most of recent history (except for the 9/11 attacks), the relationships were one-sided: America intervention has always been a key part of…

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

Posted on November 21, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.0/10. Written in July 2020, this book gives an analysis of ways which Covid is changing the world: which trends are temporary and which are here to stay. Many of the changes were already in progress for some time, and Covid only sped it up or exposed it for the world to see. Covid…

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

Posted on August 18, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.2/10. Explains how relationships between countries are affected by geography, sort of like the CaspianReport YouTube channel, but in book format. Russia is concerned with getting access to a warm-water port, which explains why they invaded Afghanistan and recently Crimea. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s lost a lot of territory, and…

Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein

Posted on February 16, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.5/10. Legal aspects of impeachment, written by a famous American lawyer. It’s a little-known clause in the constitution, designed to keep a balance of power, and so far, three presidents have been seriously in danger of impeachment before Trump (Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton). Impeachment is designed for serious misuse of presidential powers against the…

The Pipeline and the Paradigm by Samuel Avery

Posted on December 17, 2019April 10, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 6.8/10. The Keystone pipeline runs from Alberta down into the US into Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, and has attracted a battle between environmentalists and the oil industry. In this book, the author (an environmentalist who installs solar panels) interviews various people involved in the pipeline. There is first the local concern of…

Trump: A Graphic Biography by Ted Rall

Posted on June 5, 2018April 7, 2022
Topics: Current Events, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.3/10. A biography of Trump in graphical novel format. This book was written after Trump won the republican primaries (May 2016) but before he won the presidency (Nov 2016). First, the book describes the political and economic circumstances that led to Trump coming into power. After the 2008 financial crisis, many low-skilled Americans felt…

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