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
Media studies
The Hidden Persuaders Is Flawed and Dated, Yet Its Warning Still Lands
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard is a 1957 exposé of how advertisers, political strategists and corporate managers used psychoanalysis … Read more
Artificial Intimacy Review, Turkle’s Brilliant Warning on Fake Empathy
Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines by Sherry Turkle is the most unsettling book I have … Read more
How to Eat an Elephant: A Brutally Honest Book Review (2026)
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time is not a book about elephants. It is Sarah Longwell’s … Read more
Propaganda Book by Edward Bernays Review: 5 Ways He Predicted Social Media in 1928
Propaganda book by Edward Bernays is one of the most influential and unsettling books ever written about public opinion, mass … Read more
The Age of Magical Overthinking: A Brilliant, Messy Mirror for Your Biased Brain
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell is a blend of cultural criticism, personal memoir, … Read more
Primetime 2026 Review, Pattinson Shines in a Satire That Blinks First
Primetime 2026 is a fictionalized drama about how Chris Hansen and a small NBC team turned hidden-camera stings of men … Read more
The Network Society Is Here, And It’s Reshaping Everything You Do
Did you know that in 1995, fewer than 40 million people used the Internet? By 2009, that number had exploded … Read more
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, an Analysis of Gail Dines’ Scathing Critique
Does the constant stream of sexual images in everyday media leave you wondering how we reached a point where extreme … Read more
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr: Why Your Brain Feels Broken in the Age of Distraction
Ever wonder why you can’t finish a single article without checking your phone? Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet … Read more
The Filter Bubble Book Review: Why You’re Probably Not Seeing the Full Internet
Can you really trust what shows up in your Google search results? Or has the internet quietly built a personalized … Read more
The Engineering of Consent by Edward L. Bernays: A Comprehensive Review
Do you ever feel like your opinions were shaped by forces you can’t quite identify? After reading this book, I … Read more
Trust Me, I’m Lying Review: Ryan Holiday’s Media Confessions Exposed
Can you really trust the news you read online? I spent years feeding the media monster, and what I learned … Read more
Manufacturing Consent Review: Why You’re Being Lied to by the Media
Do you ever get the feeling that the news isn’t telling you the whole story? It’s a question that lingers … Read more
No Logo Summary: Unmasking the Brutal Secrets of Global Brand Power
Why do so many of us feel simultaneously seduced and suffocated by the ubiquitous logos plastered across our cities, screens, … Read more
Doppelganger Naomi Klein: The Scary Truth About Mirror WorldÂ
Does it ever feel like the world has split in two, and you’re not sure which side of the mirror … Read more
How to Talk to AI Summary: Smart, Sobering Rules for Chatbots Now
What if the real AI problem isn’t that machines will replace us, but that we’ll slowly let them think, feel, … Read more
The Guy You Loved to Hate: A Masterclass in Media Manipulation
Do you remember exactly where you were when you realized that the “reality” in The Hills might be fake? Ever … Read more
Across the Universe Natan Last radical crossword history guide review
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle by Natan Last is the rare crossword book … Read more
A Revolution of Common Sense review – powerful, honest Trump book
Politics, Scott Jennings argues in A Revolution of Common Sense, stopped listening to ordinary people long ago and disappeared into … Read more
Of Beards and Men: a compelling, game-changing cultural history of beard
If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity, … Read more