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March Reading List

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On April 1, 2026
Here’s my reading list for March. This is last month’s list and you can follow it back from there. Professional: Kathleen DuVal, Native Nations: A Millenium in North America (Random House, 2024). This important and prize-winning book perhaps isn't perfect--no book covering this amount of territory actually...

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On March 10, 2026

The saddest words in the English language are "I don't read fiction." And yet, even here at LGM. commenters talk about how they don't read anymore. That's horrible. Social media.

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January Reading List

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On February 1, 2026
Here's my reading list for January. Here's the December list and you can follow it back from there. Professional Reading: Sanford Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal (Princeton University Press, 1998). I miss labor histories like this, when historians engaged in serious...
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October Reading List

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On November 1, 2025
Here's my October reading list. You can see last month's list here and follow it back from there. Professional Reading: Elie Mystal, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025). Mystal, who is the law writer for The Nation, writes...
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Someone pointed this out yesterday in our discussion of the decline of reading. Our devices are leading to functional illiteracy because parents find reading to their kids boring, unlike watching Tik Toks. Last week, former elementary school teacher Spencer Russell posed a question to parents...
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