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A list of books about the zeitgeist in America (as of early 2025)

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<title>At least ten books by women about the political zeitgeist in America right now (early 2025)</title>
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<h1>Books about the political zeitgeist in America right now (early 2025)</h1>
<h1>At least ten books by women about the political zeitgeist in America right now (early 2025)</h1>
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<td>The Power Worshippers</td>
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<td>Culture Warlords</td>
<td>Talia Lavin</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banality of a life indistinguishable from other lives.</td>
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<td>Republic of Lies</td>
<td>Anna Merlan</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">It takes a profound level of self-importance to claim without evidence that the feds are after you.</td>
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<td>Nomadland</td>
<td>Jessica Bruder</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">Statistically they blend in with the rest of the population, since the law requires them to maintain fixed - in other words, fake - addresses. No matter how widely they wander, nomads must be officially "domiciled" somewhere. Your state of residence is where you get vehicles registered and inspected, renew drivers' licenses, pay taxes, vote, serve on juries, sign up for health insurance (except for those on Medicare), and fulfill a litany of other responsibilities. And living nowhere, it turns out, means you can live anywhere you want, at least on paper.</td>
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<td>Unholy</td>
<td>Sarah Posner</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">...the hard-line opposition to abortion followed the organization of the religious right, rather than serving as the impetus for it.</td>
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<td>Pastels and Pedophiles</td>
<td>Mia Bloom &amp; Sophia Moskalenko</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">The allegations that QAnon makes about adrenochrome are the modern manifestation of a blood libel.<br>Consider for a moment how completely nonsensical this allegation is. Anyone familiar with Jewish dietary laws, called <i>kashrut (kosher)</i>, knows that Jews have an antipathy toward blood.</td>
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<td>Men Who Hate Women</td>
<td>Laura Bates</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<td class="snippet">As one typical site puts it: 'The internet was... created by men (for other men), and it is only by our divine manly grace that women are permitted to use it.' Tell that to Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.</td>
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<p><a class="button" href="#moids">&gt; Show books by men too?</a></p>
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<p><a class="button" href="#">&gt; Aahh! Never mind!</a></p>