Books to read

Reddit discussion of Acemoglu’s book

Fun collection of books, by Noah Veltman

Reflections on woodworking

w/ links to other years too

Forward by Hitchens

Hitch provides high praise: “You can chuck out your Alan Bullock and Joachim Fest and Hugh Trevor-Roper biographies, in my opinion, and read only one relatively short book: The Meaning of Hitler, by the brave, brilliant former German exile Sebastian Haffner. In one dense paragraph, written in 1978, before the Kershaw disclosures, he guessed correctly that Hitler’s maniacal reaction to the Munich revolution in 1918–19 was the key that unlocked everything.”