Wonk Bridge Presents — The Wonk Bridge Holiday Reading Review 2019

Maxi Gorynski
8 min readDec 12, 2019

This article was originally published on Wonk Bridge

From videoblocks.com

It’s that time of year again.

And yes, we listened, and yes, we heard your cries of consumerism disgruntled when we published last year’s Holiday Reading Review with less than a week to spare before Christmas.

So once again, with considerably greater punctuality, Wonk Bridge presents The Wonk Bridge Holiday Reading Review — 2019 edition, with words from contributors, friends and readers of Wonk Bridge on their essential reading for the festive period.

Founder’s Pick

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime, by Bruno Latour

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“Legendary French sociologist Bruno Latour makes an ambitious and, in my opinion, successful attempt at crafting a political “Theory of Everything”, a new political compass for our times.

In many ways, the 2010s were a transitory decade — letting go of now outdated 20th century notions and shifting to the 21st century agenda dominated by dramatic…

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Maxi Gorynski

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