Books

Book Review

How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice

Ramin Skibba / Undark Apr 18, 2025 “A History of the World in Six Plagues” explores the racial and class inequalities linking infectious disease epidemics. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Book Review

The Political Poverty of “Abundance” Liberalism

David Sirota, Aaron Regunberg / The Lever Apr 7, 2025 Ezra Klein’s new book is supercharging elites’ campaign to deter Democrats from challenging billionaires and corporate power. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Interview

When History Rhymes: Muskism and McCarthyism

Alan Dean, Charles Petersen, Corey Robin / n+1 Mar 28, 2025 A conversation with Corey Robin on fear in the workplace. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Book Review

No-Man’s-Land: The Writing and Art of Guantánamo

Jacqueline Loss / NACLA Mar 14, 2025 A new book examines how art produced in Guantánamo reimagines empathy and resistance. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Books

What the Book Section Likes

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Jan 10, 2025 Publishing isn’t dying, but book media — narrow, conventional, status-obsessed — needs critical review. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

Here’s to the Changemakers and Culture Shapers of 2024

Truthdig staff / Truthdig Dec 27, 2024 Selections from Truthdig's year in films, books and interviews with artists who are shaping our world. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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The Alchemy That Powers the Modern World

Sarah Scoles / Undark Dec 13, 2024 Two recent books examine the use and abuse of uranium and the costs of producing the vital minerals needed to fuel tomorrow’s technology. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Media

From ‘Satisfactory’ to ‘Problematic’: Press Freedom in the U.S. Hit an All-Time Low

Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff / Seven Stories Press Dec 13, 2024 Legislative assaults on the media are a key driver of the downward spiral. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Book Excerpt

The Case for Digital Degrowth

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Nov 29, 2024 AI and data center energy consumption has been overhyped. Greening the digital society requires confronting deeper structural problems. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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‘Keep Her Body from Pain and Her Mind from Worry’

Stephanie Gorton / History News Network Nov 22, 2024 A history of the birth-control movement in literature. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Books

‘The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World’

Peter Taylor / NACLA Nov 1, 2024 Chomsky and Robinson’s new critical survey of American foreign policy seeks to dispel the myth that the United States is devoted to promoting democracy and human rights. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

TD Original

Novelizations Have Risen From the Grave

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Oct 31, 2024 A small horror publisher re-animates literature’s most terrifying and despised monster. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )