A List of the Books Read over the Last 11 Years by My Zoom Book Club

You can probably tell we're a fun bunch of guys. * or ** or even *** means excellent. 2/19/15: Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century ** 4/2/15: Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy ** 5/14/15: Stephen Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature * 7/16/15: Boltanski, Luc and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism 9/1/15: Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind ** 10/26/15: Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money 12/14/15: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind 2/9/16: Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity 4/5/16: Enzo Traverso, Fire & Blood 6/14/16: Robert Putnam, Our Kids ** 9/7/16: Pearson & Hacker, Winner Take All Politics ** 1/22/17: Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.* 4/2/17: Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in their Own Land 6/5/17: Phil Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown 8/7/17: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 9/9/17: Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution & Cooperation 12/11/17: David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy 2/26/18: James C. Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism 4/23/18: Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History 7/31/18: Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 9/25/18: Mary Jo Maynes & Ann Waltner, The Family: A World History + Jonathan Schulz et al’s article “The Origins of WEIRD Psychology” + Perry Anderson’s book review “The Family World System” (a review of Goran Therborn’s Between Sex & Power). 12/17/18: Goran Therborn, Between Sex & Power 2/11/19: Robert Putnam, American Grace ** 5/8/19: Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies 7/28/19: Michael Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent * 10/7/19: Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power ** 12/9/19: Christopher Boehm. 2001. Hierarchy in the Forest. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. *** 3/15//20: Carol Gilligan & David Richards, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future 5/31/20: Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political & Global 8/17/20: Carl Schmitt, Political Romanticism 11/9/20: Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home 1/11/21: Ronald Inglehart, Cultural Evolution 4/5/21: Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World 7/22/21: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age 9/26/21: Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 1/9/22: David Graeber & David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 4/10/22: Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise & Fall of Information Empires * 8/16/22: Tony Wood, Russia w/o Putin: Money, Power & the Myths of the New Cold War 10/30/22: Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein & Olivier Sibony, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. * 1/8/23: Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies & the Fate of Liberty * 4/16/23: Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World *** 7/10/23: James Bridle’s New Dark Age: Technology & the End of the Future 10/22/23: Charles Tilly’s Durable Inequality ** 1/7/24: Paul Tough’s The Inequality Machine 3/31/24: Michael Mann's Sources of Social Power, Vol 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 7/8/24: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness * 11/24/24: Angela Saini's The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality 1/19/25: Richard Reeves, Of Boys & Men * 4/20/25: Randall Collins, The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education & Stratification ** 8/10/25: Mike Davis, Planet of Slums 11/9/25: Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism 1/19/26: Kyle Chayka: Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture