Five Books That Will Make You Think Differently About Capitalism

How should we shape the economy to deal with income inequality and climate change? What role should the state play in economic activity? Should we fear AI? These questions are some of the most important ones facing us today. In this post, we’ll have a look at how an array of scholars have tackled them, …

Review: Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2017)

So I appreciate that I’m a bit late to the party with this one, and I know I don’t normally review works of fiction, but I’ve just finished reading this book and I had to say something about it. (Though given that I typically review history books, and that this is a work of historical …

Review: Padraic X. Scanlan, Slave Empire (2020)

Scholars, up until the 1930s, have seen the abolition of slavery as the major turning point in the  history of the British Empire, the keystone of British Liberalism, and the foundational contribution Britain has made to the world. This is a view that is still endorsed by politicians today. It is a view that requires …