ybooks Read

Readers

Ben Wikler

2 books on the record · 28 Jul 2026 – 28 Jul 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

recommends it

Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

So, the first book I want to recommend is The Master of the Senate by Robert Caro. I I talk in the book uh about the the fight in Wisconsin and the the way that we under-rigged our state, which wound up requiring the flipping of the state Supreme Court.

on a podcast · 28 Jul 2026 · Report

recommends it

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

The second book that I I want to recommend is a book called Seeing Like a State. And this is a a book by someone who used to be a University of Wisconsin professor, actually, James C. Scott. Uh and it's about the ways that utopian projects often fall apart and totally backfire.

on a podcast · 28 Jul 2026 · Report

Everything Ben Wikler recommends — not just books — on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.