2023 - a fools review

The best book, some goodbye's and hellos

In 2023 my top book has got to be The Tyranny of Merit - What’s Become of the Common Good by Michael Sandal.

from wikipedia:

Michael Joseph Sandel^[3] (/sænˈdɛl/; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard Law School, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the 2011's "most influential foreign figure of the year" (China Newsweek).^[4][5] He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.

It’s the best take I’ve read on the culture wars. I’ve been obsessed with this since they started canceling me. I lost a regularly received artist in education grant in the ear…