Writing has a big role to play in righting the world order — Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate with the week’s big news story. The few minutes it takes to read this newsletter will make you smarter, faster. If you’d rather listen, click on the audio button above for a human, not AI…

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The day news broke that Henry Kissinger was dead social media started to be flooded with photos from Bangladesh. One sticks out particularly in my memory. It was of a young woman, who lived in the West, along with her grandmother, who lived in Dhaka. My grandma lived, despite Kissinger…

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Heat waves and hope in 2053 and are whales really worth $13 to each of us? — Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate with the week’s big news story. The few minutes it takes to read this newsletter will make you smarter, faster. If you’d rather listen, click on the audio button above for a human, not AI…

Great stuff. Thanks for this. Really makes me want to go see the film.

Who knew, but the UK PM clearly has a sensitive soul that cleaves to the marble representations by Greek sculptor Phidias to decorate the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple. Unless, it’s all about politics — “Rishi loses his marbles”™ Politico. I wish I’d been clever enough to think of the headline Politico chose for the remarkable sight of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak losing his rag over the Parthenon sculptures. The sculptures, incidentally, are known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, in memory of the…

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It is wrong to attack members of the Jewish community anywhere and wrong to attack members of the Muslim community anywhere. Thanks for reading