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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
    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.

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    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
    Mutual Misunderstanding
    Talking From 9 to 5
    Talking From 9 to 5by Deborah Tannen Mutual Misunderstanding

    Linguist Deborah Tannen explores the complexity of gender-based office communication and how it affects women.

  • Review
    An Exponential Tomorrow
    The Exponential Age
    The Exponential Ageby Azeem Azhar An Exponential Tomorrow

    Host of the Exponential View podcast Azeem Azhar paints a detailed, grim portrait of a future in which tech giants immune to the will of governments…

  • Review
    Looking at Musk
    Elon Musk
    Elon Muskby Ashlee Vance Looking at Musk

    Ashlee Vance takes a long, perhaps too admiring look at Elon Musk, Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.

  • Review
    Speak with Confidence
    Mastering the Art of Public Speaking
    Mastering the Art of Public Speakingby Michael J. Gelb Speak with Confidence

    Executive coach Michael J. Gelb, a prolific self-help author, offers a basic blueprint for everyone who is fearful of public speaking.

  • Review
    Economic Theory Vs. Real Life
    The Economists’ Hour
    The Economists’ Hourby Binyamin Appelbaum Economic Theory Vs. Real Life

    New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum delves deep into the histories and philosophies of influential economists to see how their ideas have shaped the American…