by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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by Durga Changpeng Zhao’s Freedom of Money is an unusually self-reflexive work for a figure so deeply entangled in the infrastructural power struggles of contemporary finance. It is at once memoir, apologia,
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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by Nil Katrina Manson’s Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is at once a work of embedded journalism, a character study, and an unsettling meditation
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by Eric Sebastian Mallaby’s The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence is an ambitious, at times unsettling, attempt to narrate the making of a technological epoch through the
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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by Durga Caroline Wong’s The AI Cybersecurity Handbook offers a comprehensive, forward-looking exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. Framed as both a diagnostic survey and a practical guide,
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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