My ninety-eighth podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Paul Cartledge about his history of the development of democracy in the ancient world and how it has influenced our understanding of democracy today. Enjoy!

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Aled Davies about his book on how the growing financialization of the British economy in the 1960s and 1970s affected social democracy in the postwar era. Enjoy!

My thoughts on this week's Brexit vote.

From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp is a popular book of non violence resistance.

And that's what is at the core of a trial that might put 17 readers in jail for joining a book club and reading book.

WTF? 

These readers are going to face real jail time, up to 12 years, if convicted. 

Added to a few books that I've read and like. Which either confirmed that these books are the new list of must read, or that just are most popular books the writer could remember.

Nevertheless, these are really good books. Most of them I read, few are on my to-read pile.

A year already. And I still got a few dozens books that need to read. But these are going to jump the queue and go on the front of line.

Why? Human need to understand better about human and the system we live in. We could no longer afford to be ignorant. 

Time is pressing.