Henry Farrell
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, co-author of Underground Empire, and author of the Programmable Mutter newsletter.
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
Zeke Faux’s great book, Number Go Up
on programmablemutter.com · 29 Jun 2026 · Report
Dollars and Dominion by Mary Bridges
It's uh by a woman a historian uh called Mary Bridges called dollars and Dominion. And so it is on the one hand it is not about what is happening right now.
on a podcast · 27 Jan 2026 · Report
The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
And the final book is a book by Tinuan which has just come out called the score. And it's just a you know I don't even know how to begin to describe this book. It is about uh making pizza. It is about games.
on a podcast · 27 Jan 2026 · Report
The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
That question is explored in another extraordinary book, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales
on programmablemutter.com · 1 Dec 2025 · Report
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
Dan Wang suggests in his fantastic forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
on programmablemutter.com · 19 Aug 2025 · Report
The Concept of Representation by Hanna Pitkin
But they are in part supported by one of the great books of modern political theory, Hanna Pitkin’s The Concept of Representation
on programmablemutter.com · 5 Aug 2025 · Report
Aegypt by John Crowley
Crowley is one of the great unrecognized novelists of our time, and his Aegypt novel sequence seems exactly on point for the strange days we live in.
on programmablemutter.com · 20 Jun 2025 · Report
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
Nor do I do many promotional emails (this is the first in nearly a year), but if you want to provide some indirect support, and get what I sincerely think to be a very good book while you’re at it
on programmablemutter.com · 24 May 2025 · Report
The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
This is why I think that The Siren’s Call is a very important book.
on programmablemutter.com · 9 Mar 2025 · Report
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