Books
Elaine Scarry’s “On Beauty and Being Just”
Jenny Odell’s “How To Do Nothing” (& Cal Newport’s “Deep Work”)
Samantha Power’s “A Problem From Hell”
Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted”
Leslie Jamison’s “Empathy Exams”
Juno Mac and Molly Smith’s “Revolting Prostitutes”
Jen Pahlka’s “Recoding America”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”
Erica Chenoweth’s “Why Civil Resistance Works”
Robert Caro’s “Working”
Octavia Butler’s “Kindred”
Hisham Matar’s “The Return”
Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal”
Marshall Rosenberg’s “Nonviolent Communication”
Jay Caspian Kang’s “The Loneliest Americans”
Not Books
Andrea Long Chu’s “On Liking Women”
Martha Nussbaum’s 2017 Jefferson Lecture (which I now can only find here)
Amia Srinivasan’s “The Aptness of Anger” (^could be read with the above)
Ward Farnsworth on "Rules and Standards" (short) or Cass Sunstein’s “The Problem with Rules” (very long)
Kofi Agawu (my dad)’s Intellectual Autobiography (He would be mortified for me to list this here, but my guess is he won’t see this!)
Ariel Levy’s A World Without Pain
Matt Bruenig’s response (video) to Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America”
Ezra Klein’s interviews with Janet Lansbury and C. Thi Nguyen (both before my time on the show :)
