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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781399818063/summer-of-fire-and-blood · 23 Jul 2025
I often enjoy reading about history and know that we can learn a lot from it. We can certainly learn from the German peasant uprising but I'm not sure I took as much away from this book as I would've liked. It's well-written, well-researched and clearly co...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780393881516/stories-are-weapons · 11 Jun 2025
Topical, well-researched, compelling, concise. Framing recent campaigns, memes, psyops — whatever you'd like to call them as propaganda and weaponry feels both novel and accurate. It's a helpful framing for the moment we've found ourselves in. Everyone, ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593229866/no-more-tears · 3 Jun 2025
Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare empire and a household empire in the United States (and elsewhere, perhaps? I can't speak to that). That they are so deeply entrenched and recognizable is a crediting to their marketing and fierce defense of their brand. T...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781451656091/on-air · 17 May 2025
I've never been a fan of NPR in any meaningful sense — I trust their reporting, find it credible and reliable but have never become attached to its more lauded shows and the hosts attached to them. Steve Oney does a magnificent, engaging and thorough job...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/182141808/red-scare · 9 Apr 2025
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Our current political moment is one that rhymes with the red scare . Clay Risen does an admirable job covering the history of and events around the post-war red scare and the hysteria fueled House Un-American A...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781639733361/death-is-our-business · 1 Apr 2025
This felt like more of a primer on Wagner than a comprehensive history. Nonetheless, it’s a compelling explainer of private military companies (PMCs) with Wagner at the heart of it. From the conflict in Ukraine to its presence in Africa and Syria, Wagner...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781035037483/meltdown · 21 Mar 2025
A neatly organized chronology of yet another bank failure. You get some history on Swiss banking, a good deal of insight into the firm and a conclusion that ends with its failure and an acquisition by rival UBS (there's even a brief aside about the run on ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781668027813/when-the-sea-came-alive · 16 Mar 2025
I've never — probably will never — be a history buff. I enjoy reading about it, value the insights gleaned from studying it but never find myself getting lost in it. I don't actively seek it out, I do value it. The latter doesn't require that I do the ...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781529349252/smoke-and-ashes · 28 Feb 2025
This made for a fascinating read about a historical topic I only had a vague familiarity with. It's detailed inasmuch as it connects the spread of opium's history, production and consumption — meticulous research as narrative. Chinese rulers had banned o...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316276177/ask-not · 23 Feb 2025
The author's qualifier that they've taken creative license with some of these accounts is...well, it does a lot to strike down a lot of trust you might have had in what follows. Everything that's described is both salacious and not exactly beyond belief. T...