Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-02-15
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 169
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Mia Wong recommended Debt by David Graeber and Direct Action by David Graeber, and discussed Border Economies by James Gerber. Also mentioned: The Dictator's Army by Caitlin Talmadge.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Border Economies
Discussed“Now there's a pretty interesting book that I read recently called Border Economies Cities Bridging the US Mexico Divide by James Gber Gerber. James Gerber. Okay.”
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Debt
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is a sweeping anthropological examination of the history and social functions of debt, credit, and power across human civilizations.
Recommended“It's based on forcing countries to like pay back loans that were taken out by dictators. Go read Greyber's debt the last 5,000 years. Yeah. It's very good.”
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Direct Action
Direct Action by David Graeber is an ethnographic account of the alter-globalization movement, detailing the author's firsthand experiences with and participation in the major anti-globalization protests of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Recommended“I would also recommend uh David Greyber's uh direct action in ethnography which is him writing about the original like anti like alter globalization protests and his like time in them. Yeah. So, you know, if you need direct action ideas, they they did some fun stuff with dressing guys up like marshmallows so police batons would bounce off of”
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The Dictator's Army
The Dictator's Army by Caitlin Talmadge is a political science and military history book that analyzes how regime characteristics and internal security concerns affect the operational effectiveness and battlefield performance of authoritarian armed forces.
Recommended“And it it's just one of these things like there's a very good book that I think people need to read if you want to know kind of the operational impact this is going to have both on the US military and probably to an extent law enforcement. We look at agencies like the FBI. There's a book called the”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Um, author of a couple books, Schoolhouse Burning, uh, public education and the assault on American democracy, and then more recently, uh, dangerous learning, the South's long war on black literacy.”
“Um, author of a couple books, Schoolhouse Burning, uh, public education and the assault on American democracy, and then more recently, uh, dangerous learning, the South's long war on black literacy.”
“So, I spent a good a pretty good deal of time on this disunion question in in my new book, Dangerous Learning, because I'm you most of that book is focused on the three decades leading up to the Civil War.”
“And and like I said, you know, Dangerous Learning just came out, you know, a week or so ago, really helping us, I think, helping us to see this current moment through a long lens of of war on black equality, black just free and open debate.”