Read Turn Coat, book 11 of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
Another bad people/creatures/whatever doing bad stuff with magic, while Dresden stops them, while getting completely beat up book. I don’t mean that as a bad thing though. That’s why I read the books!
This had some interesting world-building stuff, with some new stuff in over-arching story. Also read the short story that takes place after the book (in the anthology Side Jobs), an interesting look at the relationship between Harry and Murphy.
Currently reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn. Just started it, so don’t have much to say about it yet.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The Reactionary Mind by Cory Robin.
Robin’s core argument is that conservatism’s animating value is not freedom, small government, religion, or even an attachment to the past. Instead it’s the belief in, and defense of hierarchy. He goes further to argue that Government and civic hierarchy is secondary to private and social systems. And the reason conservatives are so quick to defend hierarchy in institutions is the fear that liberation will leak into the private affairs of industry, society, and ultimately the home.
I’m suspicious of the thesis, but I have to admit, some of his ideas have worked like decoder rings for why MAGA acts the way it does.