For someone who goes on and on about staying curious, I haven’t made a lot of time to read books.
Until now.
I just finished one by one hell of a bold thinker — the sociologist Musa Al-Gharbi. We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite looks like a takedown of “wokeness,” but is actually a very uncomfortable mirror held up to the kinds of people, left and right, who have arguments about things like “wokeness” in the first place — college-educated professional types (like me!) who dominate things a whole lot more than we think we do.
One big takeaway for me: the educational divide is everything. And the assumptions it’s baked into so much of society about who deserves what are in need of some serious questioning.
Next on the reading list? Yuval Levin’s American Covenant. Yuval is a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute I connect with not on his politics, but on his sense of political virtue. This book zooms in on the U.S. Constitution and the frameworks it lays out that, in his view, contain a genius we’ve forgotten.
Got any books that have lit you up lately? Hit reply and let me know.
I’m bound to love a great recommendation. 😉
— Moni
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