The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It, by Jamie Bartlett, Hachette Books, 320 pages, $29 Newcomers to bitcoin sometimes dismiss the …
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, by Jonathan M. Katz, Macmillan, 432 pages, $29.99 The legend of Smedley Butler has sustained …
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, by Raymond B. Craib, Spectre/PM Press, 304 pages, $24.95 When Michael Oliver was a …
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States, by Brian Hochman, Harvard University Press, 368 pages, $33.67 America’s first wiretapping conviction happened in 1864. A stockbroker named D.C. …
Few people are more qualified to write about wrongful convictions in the U.S. than M. Chris Fabricant, the director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project. His group has freed …
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela, by William Neuman, St. Martin’s Press, 352 pages, $22.08 The Bolivarian Cable Train was an …
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, by James Kirchick, Henry Holt and Co., 848 pages, $29.99 During J. Edgar Hoover’s 48 years as FBI director, people often gossiped …
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 704 pages, $35 There’s a simple story about life before civilization, …
Today, “if you ask a semi-educated young person to identify the root cause of most American problems, there’s a strong possibility they will say, ‘Capitalism.’” In the ’90s, the more …
You may know George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan from such contrarian classics as The Case Against Education, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, and the polemical …