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The Cryptopians
Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from decen...
Antonio García Martínez
2022-08-01T19:03:26.000ZAntonio García Martínez
2022-05-01T20:26:06.000ZFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic...
Antonio García Martínez
2022-04-10T19:15:06.000ZAlso recommended by
Dave ElitchNational bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America's faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. Du...
Antonio García Martínez
2021-12-31T18:31:23.000ZAlso recommended by
Peter BoghossianA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called “Auschwitz,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known “righteous-gentile” Varian Fry, Dara Horn ch...
Antonio García Martínez
2021-12-31T17:55:29.000ZA "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus...
Antonio García Martínez
2021-08-07T18:21:06.000ZWalter J. Ong s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition coinciding with Ong s centenary year reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full...
Antonio García Martínez
2021-02-16T04:45:43.000ZAlso recommended by
Genevieve BellWe live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television com...
Antonio García Martínez