1. Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. I agree with many of the anti-therapy arguments in this book, but still I feel that “bad therapy” is a second-order phenomenon, not the initial cause of the growing mental health problems of America’s young people. Furthermore, the analysis (much like Jon Haidt’s recent work) should be more tightly framed in the context of the “most interventions really don’t matter that much” results in social science at the very general level.
2. Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon. Well-written and well-organized, this checks all the boxes for what I would want from a Fanon biography. Here is an Adam Shatz NYT Op-Ed on Fanon.
3. Nabila Ramdani, Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic. What is wrong with France, from a French-Algerian point of view. The book is full of substance, and there aren’t enough “stand alone books on countries,” so this is a good one whether or not you agree with all of the observations.
4. Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin. “Tassting the urine was the doctors’ original test for diabetes.” An excellent biomedical history, noting that the key breakthrough came in Toronto in the 1920s.
And the AEI Press has reprinted the 1951 Edward Banfield classic Government Project.
Rainer Zietlmann has a new book out How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity.
Lewis E. Lehrman has published his autobiography The Sum of It All. He was one of the important figures behind the Reagan Revolution, in addition to his longstanding presence amongst New York elites.
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