June 27, 2026 summary: Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death argues that much of human life is organized around avoiding the awareness of mortality: READ
goodshit Body of Secrets by James Bamford is an investigative history of the NSA that argues the agency became one of the most powerful and least understood institutions in the U.S. national-security system. Its core idea is that signals intelligence has shaped major Cold War and post–Cold War events, often with very little public oversight.
