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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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June Reading List

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On July 1, 2025
Here’s my list of books read in May. Last month’s list is here. You can follow previous months from there. This goes out to my book patron, known as PS, who sends me books that make up a good portion of the fiction list. Your generosity...
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