Book review
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Review: Invisible Women. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed by Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: Too Much and Never Enough. How my Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L Trump
There is not much about Donald Trump in this book that is a surprise. What Mary Trump does succeed in, however, is giving us clues to Donald Trump’s success.
- Populism
- USA
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Review: The Far Right Today, by Cas Mudde
The thrust of Cas Mudde's book explains how ‘the far right in general, and the populist radical right in particular’ has become normalised in the mainstream.
- Populism
- USA
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Review: The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution. Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames
The chronology of devolution has been obsessively picked over in Scottish public culture, but there remain sharp differences of opinion about its causal drivers.
- Devolution
- Scotland
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Review: Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham, by Jon Bloomfield
Having worked for the city council on urban policy, Jon Bloomfield wants to tell a positive story about Birmingham.
- Immigration
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Review: The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism, by Catherine Rottenberg
Catherine Rottenberg’s book engages intensively and critically with texts that demand women ‘do better and work harder’.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen, by Michel Eltchaninoff
Michel Eltchaninoff's new book offers a timely and original look at the Le Pen phenomenon from the perspective of her thought processes.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: The Four Horsemen. The Conversation that Sparked an Atheist Revolution, by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett
Back in 2007, four figureheads of New Atheism met for drinks and an informal discussion of their views. The video quickly went viral.
- Media
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Review: Authentocrats. Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness, by Joe Kennedy
Joe Kennedy's new book is filled with curious incidents in our recent political and cultural history
- Elections & Campaigning
- Populism
- Identity Politics
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Review: Identity. Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition, by Francis Fukuyama
By failing to engage with identity politics at a grass-roots level, Fukuyama misses the opportunity to discover new ways forward.
- Identity Politics
