Stephen Hawking knew what questions to ask -- and he wasn't bad at the answers either, as his last book indicates.
Bookshelf
Reviews and essays on books.
Jason Brennan's When All Else Fails makes a rigorous argument that our right to self-defence and to defend others applies even against violence committed by the state.
Guy Standing's primer is an excellent guide to the main talking points of the Universal Basic Income.
Capitalism Without Capital is an impressive work that fills the mainstream gap on the intangible economies.
The danger to capitalism comes from capitalists. A new book, 'The Myth of Capitalism', illustrates how this works.
The Ambassador's Club is an important scholarly work and a great read for anyone interested in Indian foreign policy.
Vinay Sitapati's biography of PV Narasimha Rao shows the ancient influence on this modern politician.
Tony Joseph’s 'Early Indians' is a lucid and important work on the earliest Indians.
Deepshikha Shahi’s philosophical-literary study of the Arthashastra lays the foundation for a new era in global IR theory.