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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    An Epidemic of Profits
    Empire of Pain
    Empire of Painby Patrick Radden Keefe An Epidemic of Profits

    Award-winning journalist Patrick Radden Keefe details the Sackler family’s incredible success fomenting and sustaining America’s opioid addiction.

  • Review
    Ideologues of the Alt-Right
    A World after Liberalism
    A World after Liberalismby Matthew Rose Ideologues of the Alt-Right

    Scholar Matthew Rose profiles the ideologues whose writings spawned and support today’s far-right philosophies.

  • Review
    Experts Who Take Action
    Upskill, Reskill, Thrive
    Upskill, Reskill, Thriveby James McKenna Experts Who Take Action

    Professional learning and teaching expert James McKenna provides a comprehensive program to help companies best enable their people to learn and retain new skills.

  • Review
    The Bond King’s Rise and Fall
    The Bond King
    The Bond Kingby Mary Childs The Bond King’s Rise and Fall

    Mary Childs — cohost of NPR’s Planet Money podcast — details the vertiginous rise and precipitate fall of Bill Gross, the insightful bond trader who foretold…

  • Review
    Economic Overlords
    Technofeudalism
    Technofeudalismby Yanis Varoufakis Economic Overlords

    Economist, political leader, and author Yanis Varoufakis accurately depicts the end of individuality under “technofeudalism.”

  • Review
    Uncovering Generational Truths
    The Generation Myth
    The Generation Mythby Bobby Duffy Uncovering Generational Truths

    Public policy expert Bobby Duffy explains how the media and lazy thinking perpetuate untruths about generational differences.

  • Review
    Learn from the Worst
    Extreme Economies
    Extreme Economiesby Richard Davies Learn from the Worst

    Economist Richard Davies explores the lives of people in nine “extreme economies” around the globe, each tested by a radical situation or challenge. What’s to be learned from…

  • Review
    A “Superordinate” Elite
    The Meritocracy Trap
    The Meritocracy Trapby Daniel Markovits A “Superordinate” Elite

    Yale law professor Daniel Markovits explains – using telling statistics and hard-nosed analysis – how meritocracy in the United States is not as democratic as it appears…

  • Review
    Startling Candor and Grace
    A Promised Land
    A Promised Landby Barack Obama Startling Candor and Grace

    Barack Obama grabs and holds your attention with his openness, absence of cynicism and willingness to share the backstage drama of his first term’s successes…

  • Review
    Vest in Life
    Flow
    Flowby Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Vest in Life

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s now 30-year-old essay on achieving flow and awareness remains timeless and current.