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Reviewing "What Is This Thing Called Science?" by Alan Chalmers
What exactly is science? Is there anything particularly special about scientific knowledge that distinguishes it from other forms of...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 2015 min read
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Reviewing "Unlikely Partners" by Julian Gewirtz
How did Chinese reformers gain the knowledge necessary to completely transform their economy in the 1980s? An answer could be found in...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Reading "Economists with Guns" by Bradley Simpson
In the early/mid-1960s, U.S. policymakers saw Sukarno's Indonesia shifting dangerously to the left. The government was aligning with the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 30, 202312 min read
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Reading "Who Lost Russia?" by Peter Conradi
Sunday Times editor Peter Conradi has written an accessible, engaging and comprehensive account of U.S.-Russian relations from the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Dec 30, 202215 min read
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Reading "The Killing Season" by Geoffrey Robinson
The anti-leftist purge in Indonesia in 1965-66, which resulted in half a million dead and a million detained without trial, has received...
Christopher Soelistyo
Dec 10, 202220 min read
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Reading "The Economic Weapon" by Nicholas Mulder
The Economic Weapon is a fascinating and highly reaable account of the birth of the modern economic sanctions, a tool, short of war yet...
Christopher Soelistyo
Nov 11, 202224 min read
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Reading "Tomorrow, the World" by Stephen Wertheim
This book by historian Stephen Wertheim is an impassioned account of the emergence of US global military dominance after World War II....
Christopher Soelistyo
Nov 11, 202218 min read
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Reading "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 7, 202236 min read
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Reading "Not One Inch" by Mary E. Sarotte
This book is incredibly timely. Published just three months before Russia invaded Ukraine this February, "Not One Inch: America, Russia...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jun 18, 202239 min read
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Reading "Shutdown" by Adam Tooze
The Covid pandemic is the global crisis par excellence. Rarely, if ever, before had a singular event impacted so many people across the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Apr 21, 202221 min read
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