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By Molly Crabapple — Reviewed by Bidrohi Sometimes a book answers a question you didn’t know how to ask. I picked up Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple because I wanted to better understand Jewish history beyond the familiar narratives. Most discussions about Jewish identity eventually arrive at Israel and Zionism, often […]

I picked up Why We Sleep not because I didn’t believe sleep was important, but because I wanted to understand how much it really matters. Like most of us, I’ve always known sleep is “good for you.” But this book made me realize how casually we ignore something so fundamental to our health and well-being.

There are wars we see and then there are wars we don’t. Chip War by Chris Miller tells the story of one such invisible conflict, one that doesn’t unfold on battlefields but inside laboratories, factories, and supply chains. It is a story about semiconductors — the tiny chips that power everything from smartphones to fighter

By Anil Seth Few questions are as profound as this one: What does it mean to be conscious? Not simply to think or process information, but to experience the world—to feel, perceive, remember, and exist as a self. I picked up Being You by neuroscientist Anil Seth with that question in mind, especially in the

By Peter Thiel and Blake Masters Some books don’t try to meet you halfway. Zero to One doesn’t soften its edges or seek consensus. It speaks with confidence, sometimes bordering on certainty, about how progress happens and who gets to shape it. I read it not as a startup manual, but as a glimpse into

In an age where artificial intelligence is increasingly described through headlines of fear, failure, and overreach, I picked up The Alignment Problem looking for clarity rather than confirmation. I wanted to understand what “alignment” actually means — not as a slogan, but as a real technical and ethical challenge. Brian Christian delivers exactly that: a

Some books inform you. Others unsettle you. The Anxious Generation does something quieter and heavier — it makes you look back. Not with regret exactly, but with the kind of awareness that comes only after something precious has already passed. I read this book out of curiosity — wanting to understand what phone-based, internet-based childhood

There is a certain kind of book that makes you pause—not because it is wrong, but because it is confident. Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind is one of those books. He writes with the certainty of someone who has spent a lifetime studying intelligence, convinced that the human mind is ultimately a system

We live in an age where fear and fascination walk side by side. Artificial intelligence — once a curiosity of science fiction — now sits at the heart of daily life, guiding, sorting, predicting, and, increasingly, deciding. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is a stark meditation on what

When you grow up outside America, you learn its story through a strange lens — part admiration, part myth. You’re told about liberty, invention, and the courage of explorers who “discovered” new worlds. What you don’t hear is the blood beneath those discoveries. Lies My Teacher Told Me shattered that lens for me — not