Journalism | Sopranu

WTF America?! Book Review and Summary by Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas

WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy by Ben Meiselas, Brett Meiselas, and Jordy Meiselas … Read more

Pay Attention by David Pakman is the rare book about the attention economy written by someone who is paid by … Read more

I finished American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark … Read more

Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek is the book that finally breaks … Read more

Do you really know who first told the world about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, and what it cost him? Most … Read more

Can one book change how you see a nation’s founding heroes forever? This is exactly what happened to me when … Read more

Do you know why a nation born from a war that killed millions still can’t find peace, and why the … Read more

Do you ever wonder what would actually happen if a genetically modified pathogen escaped from a lab and no one … Read more

Can you really trust what shows up in your Google search results? Or has the internet quietly built a personalized … Read more

Can you really trust the news you read online? I spent years feeding the media monster, and what I learned … Read more

Did you ever wonder why we feel so disconnected from our own countrymen, even though we share the same flag … Read more

Did you know that a two-second silent video clip of a teacher can predict their semester-long student evaluations with startling … Read more

Do you ever get the feeling that the news isn’t telling you the whole story? It’s a question that lingers … Read more

Do you ever lie awake at night wondering what would actually happen if someone pushed that button? Not the vague, … Read more

Do you ever feel informed all day, yet strangely less able to think, remember, argue, or care? Neil Postman’s Amusing … Read more

Why does Patricia Cornwell’s True Crime: A Memoir feel less like a celebrity autobiography and more like a forensic examination … Read more

Why do some mysteries tighten around your thoughts and refuse to let go—until you realize you’re halfway obsessed, too? In … Read more

Did Michelle McNamara’s relentless pursuit of the Golden State Killer finally bring him to justice, or did her obsession cost … Read more

The book “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad is a scorching, timely examination … Read more

When democracies backslide, they rarely fall with a bang—they soften, then sag, and then one day you wake up and … Read more

We drown in screens that promise reality, yet leave us spiritually thirsty; Christ and the Media names the thirst—and shows … Read more