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The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
by Sarah Kendzior
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If canaries in coal mines were given names, a previous generation's canary might be named George Orwell. Our generation's canary should be named Sarah Kendzior. Sarah is recommended by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the 100 people you should follow on Twitter to understand the Global Economy.
Why? Because she's an expert on Central Asian authoritarian regimes. Unable to find a tenure-track professor position, she started writing prescient columns for AlJazeera describing the hollowing out of the American economic jobs real-time. These descriptions are so educational, if I was a millennial, this is the book I would hand to aging Boomers to explain to one's elders how today's economy and jobs are different. This book contains those essays.
Besides being clear-eyed and of-the-moment on American jobs and how they have gone to ruin, Sarah was a lone voice calling out in the wilderness about the dangers of Donald Trump before he was ever elected. She saw all the same signs in Donald Trump she saw in her Central Asian autocrats: cronyism, corruption, nepotism, and cried out to whomever would listen how these four years would be.
I recommend this book to every American. You'll discover how professions like journalism and higher education have changed so that only those who already have privilege are the ones who can do these jobs today.
I am going to investigate her podcast @GaslitNation and listen to that as well.
If canaries in coal mines were given names, a previous generation's canary might be named George Orwell. Our generation's canary should be named Sarah Kendzior. Sarah is recommended by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the 100 people you should follow on Twitter to understand the Global Economy.
Why? Because she's an expert on Central Asian authoritarian regimes. Unable to find a tenure-track professor position, she started writing prescient columns for AlJazeera describing the hollowing out of the American economic jobs real-time. These descriptions are so educational, if I was a millennial, this is the book I would hand to aging Boomers to explain to one's elders how today's economy and jobs are different. This book contains those essays.
Besides being clear-eyed and of-the-moment on American jobs and how they have gone to ruin, Sarah was a lone voice calling out in the wilderness about the dangers of Donald Trump before he was ever elected. She saw all the same signs in Donald Trump she saw in her Central Asian autocrats: cronyism, corruption, nepotism, and cried out to whomever would listen how these four years would be.
I recommend this book to every American. You'll discover how professions like journalism and higher education have changed so that only those who already have privilege are the ones who can do these jobs today.
I am going to investigate her podcast @GaslitNation and listen to that as well.