Actualiteit
De meest urgente uitdagingen van vandaag — van economische ongelijkheid en cyberoorlog tot politieke breuklijnen en financiële crises — vereisen een heldere analyse en goed onderbouwde perspectieven. Boeken over Actuele Zaken onderzoeken de krachten die onze wereld hervormen en bieden deskundige inzichten in de systemen, het beleid en de machtsdynamiek die het hedendaagse leven bepalen.
Actualiteit Boeksamenvattingen
The End of Reality
Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?
Politiek
Technologie
Business
Economie
Sociologie
Immersief
The End of Reality
Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?
Politiek
Technologie
Business
Economie
Sociologie
Autocracy, Inc.
A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Globalization
International
Autocracy, Inc.
A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Globalization
International
The Winner-Take-All Society
Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.
Economie
Sociologie
Business
Politiek
Capitalism
The Winner-Take-All Society
Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.
Economie
Sociologie
Business
Politiek
Capitalism
The Post-American World
American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Globalization
International
The Post-American World
American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Globalization
International
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.
Politiek
Recht
Geschiedenis
Misdaad
America
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.
Politiek
Recht
Geschiedenis
Misdaad
America
Waste Land
When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
International
Economie
Oorlog
Waste Land
When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
International
Economie
Oorlog
Crisis Economics
Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.
Economie
Financiën
Business
Geschiedenis
Politiek
Crisis Economics
Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.
Economie
Financiën
Business
Geschiedenis
Politiek
The Dying Citizen
The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Political
Cultureel
The Dying Citizen
The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Political
Cultureel
How to Stop Fascism
The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Filosofie
Activisme
How to Stop Fascism
The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Filosofie
Activisme
The Assault on Truth
Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Democracy
Media
Sociologie
The Assault on Truth
Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Democracy
Media
Sociologie
National Populism
National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Economie
Political
National Populism
National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Economie
Political
Shattered Nation
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
Politiek
Sociologie
Economie
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Armoede
Shattered Nation
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
Politiek
Sociologie
Economie
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Armoede
The Invention of Russia
Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.
Geschiedenis
Rusland
Politiek
21e Eeuw
20e Eeuw
The Invention of Russia
Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.
Geschiedenis
Rusland
Politiek
21e Eeuw
20e Eeuw
Heroic Failure
Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Cultureel
Europe
Heroic Failure
Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Sociologie
Cultureel
Europe
Wildland
Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.
Business
Financiën
Geld
Wealth Creation
Zelfhulp
Wildland
Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.
Business
Financiën
Geld
Wealth Creation
Zelfhulp
Winter Is Coming
Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.
Politiek
Rusland
Geschiedenis
Oorlog
Democracy
Winter Is Coming
Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.
Politiek
Rusland
Geschiedenis
Oorlog
Democracy
House of Trump, House of Putin
Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Rusland
Misdaad
True Crime
House of Trump, House of Putin
Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Rusland
Misdaad
True Crime
Un-Trumping America
The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Overheid
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Un-Trumping America
The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Overheid
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
The Fall of the House of Bush
An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Biografie
Oorlog
Military
The Fall of the House of Bush
An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Biografie
Oorlog
Military
How Britain Ends
Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Uk
Sociologie
Europe
How Britain Ends
Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Uk
Sociologie
Europe
The Silenced Majority
The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.
Politiek
Journalistiek
Activisme
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Geschiedenis
The Silenced Majority
The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.
Politiek
Journalistiek
Activisme
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Geschiedenis
When the Money Runs Out
Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.
Economie
Financiën
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Globalization
When the Money Runs Out
Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.
Economie
Financiën
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Globalization
Reckless Endangerment
Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.
Economie
Business
Financiën
Geschiedenis
Politiek
Reckless Endangerment
Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.
Economie
Business
Financiën
Geschiedenis
Politiek
Moveable Feasts
Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.
Eten
Geschiedenis
Business
Economie
Globalization
Moveable Feasts
Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.
Eten
Geschiedenis
Business
Economie
Globalization
Facts and Other Lies
The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.
Politiek
Sociologie
Psychologie
Technologie
Media
Facts and Other Lies
The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.
Politiek
Sociologie
Psychologie
Technologie
Media
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Overheid
Recht
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Overheid
Recht
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
A Necessary Evil
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
America
Overheid
Filosofie
A Necessary Evil
The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
America
Overheid
Filosofie
Winner-Take-All Politics
The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.
Politiek
Economie
Geschiedenis
Business
Sociologie
Winner-Take-All Politics
The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.
Politiek
Economie
Geschiedenis
Business
Sociologie
Laboratories of Autocracy
How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Political
Laboratories of Autocracy
How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Amerikaans
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Political
Iran's Grand Strategy
Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
Iran
Midden-Oosten
International
Iran's Grand Strategy
Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.
Geschiedenis
Politiek
Iran
Midden-Oosten
International
Ill Winds
Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
China
Globalization
Economie
Ill Winds
Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
China
Globalization
Economie
The Destructionists
Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Journalistiek
Amerikaans
Political
The Destructionists
Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Journalistiek
Amerikaans
Political
Beyond Outrage
The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.
Politiek
Economie
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Amerikaans
Capitalism
Beyond Outrage
The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.
Politiek
Economie
Sociale Rechtvaardigheid
Amerikaans
Capitalism
Dangerous Charisma
A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.
Psychologie
Politiek
Biografie
Leiderschap
Geestelijke gezondheid
Dangerous Charisma
A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.
Psychologie
Politiek
Biografie
Leiderschap
Geestelijke gezondheid
The New Rulers of the World
The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Oorlog
Media
The New Rulers of the World
The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.
Politiek
Geschiedenis
Economie
Oorlog
Media
