June 12, 2026 summary:Edwin Black’s The Farhud argues that the 1941 Baghdad pogrom was not an isolated event but part of a wider Nazi-Arab convergence shaped by anti-British politics, Arab nationalism, and antisemitism. 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.
