Read More Year in Review, with Peter Singer, Anu Bradford, Michael Spence, and more

PS contributors offer some last-minute holiday reading (or gift) inspiration. The PS Say More Newsletter | [View this message in a web browser]( [PS Read More]( In this week's edition of PS Read More, PS contributors offer some last-minute holiday reading (or gift) inspiration. PS Contributors Recommend... [Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media]( By Tarleton Gillespie Anu Bradford says: "When I started researching the digital economy for my new book Digital Empires, this was one of the first books I read. It illuminates how tech companies make content-moderation decisions. Gillespie’s astute insights led me to ask whether the true 'digital empires' are not the governments, but the tech companies, while reinforcing my sense that digital governance needs to be rooted in the rule of law and overseen by democratic institutions." [Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope]( By Joelle Girgis Peter Singer says: "A climate scientist, Girgis served as a lead author for the [Sixth Assessment Report]( the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But Humanity’s Moment is not another dry recitation of the damage greenhouse-gas emissions are doing to our planet. Girgis intersperses the science with her personal experience of what it is like to live through what seemed to her like the start of the apocalypse: the hot, dry summer of 2019, when Australia’s ancient Gondwana rainforests burst into flames. Girgis had spent her life retreating to these forests – hitherto too wet to burn – when she needed a break from the stress of her work. But our failure to heed the warnings that she and other scientists had been issuing for decades had led to their destruction." [I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home]( By Lorrie Moore Ian Buruma says: "I don’t read very much contemporary fiction, but Lorri Moore’s latest novel gave me enormous pleasure. It is the story of a kind of road trip taken by a man, whose brother is dying in hospital, and a corpse. If one can imagine Ingmar Bergman making an American road movie, this is what it might look like. The tone is melancholic, the subject macabre, and the humor utterly wonderful." [The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy]( By Dani Rodrik Keun Lee says: "As we enter the de-globalization era, it is worth revisiting the globalization paradox Rodrik describes in this 2012 book. The basic argument is that we cannot have globalization, national sovereignty, and democracy all at once; we can have only two of the three. That is because globalization gives primacy to the interests of global businesses, not national governments or workers. Furthermore, it limits the effectiveness of national governments’ economic-policy tools, such as interest and exchange rates. As deglobalization advances, governments will gain more policy space and, ultimately, autonomy." [The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race]( By Walter Isaacson Michael Spence says: "In an age where governments, companies, investors, and civil society organizations are searching for ways to align their goals and operations with broader economic and social challenges, Cohen’s book is a gem. With the help of numerous case studies, it illuminates both the challenges this transition raises and practical solutions. The book also tackles the question of how to measure performance against established goals and includes many intriguing examples of imaginative design in pursuit of impact." [Trust]( By Hernan Diaz Jayati Ghosh says: "This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel can be compared to an onion: pull back one layer of meaning, and many more are revealed. A story within a story, with competing and often conflicting perspectives, it addresses money, finance, and enrichment; the complexity of human relationships; and the impact of perception and deception. As one character says: 'Money is a fantastic commodity. You can’t eat or wear money, but it represents all the food and clothes in the world. This is why it’s a fiction…. That’s what all these criminals trade in: fictions.' There are multiple fictions in this nuanced work of fiction, which left me intrigued and fascinated." For more inspiration, check out these books written by PS contributors, including Diane Coyle, Mohamed A. El-Erian, Stephen S. Roach, and more. [Read now](. 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