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2025

Scarcity is a choice

From journalists Ezra Klein (New York Times) and Derek Thompson (The Atlantic), Abundance is a call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. The book examines the reasons behind the lack of progress on ambitious projects in the United States, including those related to affordable housing, infrastructure, and climate change.

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2025

The Lorax is a children-adult book written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, the main character, who “speaks for the trees” and confronts the Once-ler, a business magnate who causes environmental destruction. Part philosophical tale, part political manifesto, part moral lesson, its message is frightfully prescient.

Thanks to Luigi Mangione.

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2025

A 2000 novella by the 2023 Norwegian Nobel Prize in Literature that reads like a Biblical prayer: “pared down, circuitous, and rhythmic prose skilfully guides readers through past and present. A hypnotic meditation on life and death”. Totally brilliant.

Thanks to Pete Buttigieg.

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