As the world tumbles down into a pandemic shaped rabbit-hole Ascher is wracked with guilt that her aunt was buried without the Jewish burial rights of purification. Cohn not only traces its strange origins as a forgery (a plagiarized adaptation of a French satire, rewritten most likely by the Russian secret police) and its dissemination around the world (spread by powerful figures that included Henry Ford), he also makes sense of the book as a “literary” document—how it’s structured, how it uses rhetorical tricks and tactics to spread its insidious message, and why it has stubbornly endured for over a century. In 2020, a third of the 300,000 missing women in the United States were Black, and in that same year, I was almost a victim of human trafficking myself. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization.

As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages. Rice’s work is concerned with the question of documentary and archival evidence, what makes a thing “true,” and how that proof moves through the world. I found the story of the conspiracy well told and quite interesting (albeit not as shocking as perhaps the blurb makes out), and genuinely worth the read.The result is a scholarly yet eminently accessible study that strives to make sense of how archival and documentary evidence creates our shared understanding of history. In a time of increasing epistemic confusion, Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen brilliantly complicate the usual distinction between fact-based rationality and conspiracy theory by analyzing the infiltration of official disinformation into the public sphere and by exploring the blurred line between paranoid thinking and critical theory. Born Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton to a British economist father and psychotherapist mother of Jewish-Hungarian descent, Denton attended Oxford University. Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, also published by Duke University Press.

With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Thankfully the authors’ humour takes the edge of what could otherwise be a dry, and depressing read, it’s important to note however they don’t make fun of those caught it in the web of conspiracy thinking. Even though most of the characters are not particularly likable, you do learn to see the world through their eyes - not an easy task! But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. It’s a murder mystery that takes place during those first few months, when what was happening in the world seemed unthinkable, going out meant breaking a lockdown, and contact with anyone might be fatal.With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the.