Contents for Thrice Removed
Alphabetical list so older posts don’t get lost in the shuffle! (Original date of writing included — many of these were moved here from older blogs.)
BOOKS
Arendt’s On Violence — philosophy (Aug/19)
Beavan’s No Impact Man — environment, climate change (Feb/10)
Born’s Deepening Community — philosophy, sociology, community (Aug/17)
Brown’s Braving the Wilderness — psychology, self-help (Dec/17)
Camus’s The Plague — retelling, environment (Aug/19)
Carr’s The Shallows — internet, psychology (Sep/14)
Chomsky’s Understanding Power — politics, sociology (Jul/13)
Cozolino’s Neuroscience for Psychotherapy — psychology, neuroscience (Dec/23)
Davis’s Disconnect — health, internet (Jan/11)
Davis’s The Secret History of the War on Cancer — health, politics, industry (May/09)
Diamond’s Collapse — climate change, politics, genocide (Aug/14)
Epictetus’s Enchiridion — climate change, stoicism
Erikson’s Childhood and Society — identity, Sartre, Freud, Cozolino (Mar/24)
Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning — psychotherapy, meaning of life (May/23)
Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle — psychology, philosophy (Dec/11)
Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents — philosophy, physiology (Jul/12)
Freud’s Future of an Illusion — philosophy, science v religion (Jan/12)
George’s The Big Necessity — environment, sanitation (Jul/09)
Gertz’s Nihilism — philosophy (Jan/21)
Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology — philosophy, internet (Jan/19)
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence —psychotherapy (Nov/23)
Greenblatt’s The Swerve — philosophy, Epicurus, Lucretius (Aug/12)
Han’s The Burnout Society — philosophy, Freud, Aristotle (Oct/24)
Hari’s Lost Connections — psychology, anxiety, depression (Feb/18)
Hedges’s Empire of an Illusion — sociology, pornography, politics (Aug/13)
Holthaus’s The Future Earth — environment, climate change (Jul/20)
Kendi’s Antiracism — race, education (May/21)
Klein’s The Shock Doctrine — neoliberal politics, privatization (Jan/10)
Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction — environment, climate change (Mar/14)
Kolbert’s Under a White Sky — environment (Jun/21)
Laird’s Price of a Bargain — economics, politics, China (Dec/09)
MacKinnon’s Call to Stop Shopping — consumerism, shop local (Jul/21)
Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline — capitalism, covid-19, feminism (Jan/24)
Mann’s Madhouse Effect — environment, psychology (Aug/19)
Mann’s New Climate War — environment, legislation (May/21)
Manne’s Down Girl — gender equity, philosophy, sociology, politics (Jul/18)
Manson’s Everything is F*ucked — “philosophy,” self-help (Mar/20)
Maté’s The Wisdom of Trauma — self-help, psychotherapy (Jul/23)
McQuaig’s Sport and Prey of Capitalists — politics, Ontario, privatization (Jul/20)
Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands — psychotherapy, race (Aug/23)
Monbiot’s Heat — environment, energy transition (May/09)
Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage — environment (Jan/18)
Montaigne’s “Of Cruelty” — philosophy, morality (Jul/11)
Nagle’s Kill All Normies — politics, internet (Aug/18)
Neff’s Self-Compassion — psychology, Jung (Aug/24)
Odell’s How to Do Nothing — internet, philosophy, psychology (Jul/19)
Prensky’s Teaching Digital Natives — internet, education (May/12)
Rawat’s Hear Yourself — mindfulness, spirituality (Nov/21)
Rich’s Losing Earth — environment, politics (Aug/19)
Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness — philosophy (Jun/17)
Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons — educational reform (Jul/15)
Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit — philosophy, education (Apr/21)
Saul’s A Fair Country — Canadian history (Aug/13)
Seligman’s The Hope Circuit — positive psychology, history (Mar/19)
Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life — philosophy (Jul/17)
Slee’s No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart — economics, psychology, (Jan/10)
Snyder’s On Tyranny — politics, genocide (Dec/17)
Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex — philosophy, equity, sex work (Nov/21)
Thich’s Miracle of Mindfulness — mindfulness, psychology, spirituality (Aug/11)
Varoufakis’s Economics for Dummies — economics, philosophy (Apr/19)
Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth — environment (Apr/19)
Yalom’s The Gift of Therapy — psychotherapy (Jan/24)
LECTURES and INTERVIEWS
Chomsky’s Interviews — Ralph Nader, Yanis Vanoufakis, Contrapoints…
Hedges on America: The Farewell Tour — politics (Aug/18)
Hedges on Revolution, Media, Prison, Corruption, and Hope — prison (May/20)
Reich’s The System — with Sandel on politics, economics (May/20)
Solms’s 2019 Wallerstein Lecture — neuro-psychotherapy, Freud (Mar/23)
Taylor’s Crises of Democracy — politics (Nov/16)
DOCUMENTARIES
Before the Flood — climate change, environment (Nov/16)
Century of the Self —Curtis, psychology (Aug/16)
Disruption — climate change, activism (Aug/14)
End of Suburbia — car culture, environment (Aug/09)
Ethos — politics, environment (Aug/14)
Food Inc. — agriculture, health, vegetarian (Nov/09)
Game Changers Review — vegetarian, health, sports (Dec/19)
HyperNormalisation — Curtis, psychology (Nov/16)
Inequality for All — Reich, economics, neoliberal politics (Nov/14)
Inside Job Condensed — politics, economics, mortgage scandal (May/12)
Planet of the Humans Review — “documentary,” environment (Apr/20)
Water on the Table — environment, water resource management (Dec/10)
The Wisdom of Trauma — Gabor Maté, addiction, ADHD, psychology (Jul/23)
COLLECTIONS OF IDEAS
Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital — Buddhism, addiction (Jan/23)
Changing Perceptions of Autism — Theory of Mind, empathy (Dec/23)
Developing the Capacity for Rational Choices — psychotherapy, Epictetus, Descartes, Jung (Dec/24)
End of Exploitation? — Aristotle, Seneca, Montesquieu, Rousseau… (Mar/24)
Fruitful Exploration of the Core — identity, Descartes, Locke, Hume (Dec/23)
On Marxism and Limits to Capitalism — Marx, Locke, Mill, Smith… (Sep/23)
Sharing the Art of Helping — therapy vs coaching vs bartending (Jun/24)
