Author: John Bryan Starr Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I don’t need to point out the importance of China in the world today. It’s the second most populous country in the world, one of the richest (by overall GDP), arguably the most influential in East Asia and one of the most instrumental in the rest of the world,... Continue Reading →
Author: Adrian Wooldridge Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 I had mixed feelings about this book. I’ve read both The Tyranny of Merit and The Meritocracy Trap. The first covers how meritocracy is a double-edged sword that both rewards people for effort but can punish them for failure and blame them for that outcome. The second reviews how the... Continue Reading →
Author: James C. Scott Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I started this book, I thought it would be a slightly dry and moderately vain attempt by a Political Scientist to stretch into several other social sciences to cobble together a mildly interesting theory explaining things that happened thousands of years ago that likely had little relevance today.... Continue Reading →
The Kat Bite 