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Brian Hochman, author of The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States, described to WNYC’s All of It how surveillance became commonplace.
Necropolis author Kathryn Olivarius explained to Smithsonian Magazine how yellow fever exacerbated racial inequality in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Jamie Martin, author of The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, warned in the New York Times that aggressive efforts to quell inflation in the United States can have major, unpredictable effects around the world—including long-lasting negative consequences for countries in the Global South.
A Washington Post analysis, informed heavily by David Livingstone Smith’s Making Monsters, described how the Russian military encourages its troops to dehumanize Ukrainians.

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In his surprising and powerful new work, A Brief History of Equality, Thomas Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. We asked him about his impassioned new book: why he wrote it, how it’s optimistic, and what we need to do to continue making progress on creating an equitable world. …

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