Chuck's 15 Favorite Books of 2015

Richard Beck

Interview: The texture of fear: Inside the mass hysteria of 1980s child sex abuse scares.

David Graeber

Interview: David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.

Finis Dunaway

Interview: How mass media moved environmentalism from the political to the personal.

By Joseph Hickman

Interview: An eyewitness report on chaos, death and the torture of life at Guantanamo Bay.

by Johann Hari

Interview: Telling the stories of private tragedies and public failures from the global drug war.

Andrew Hartman

Interview: The American left won the culture wars, but neoliberalism destroyed the battlefield.

Jennifer Carlson

Interview: Understanding the politics of American gun culture in an age of economic and social instability.

Marc Lewis

Interview: Development, not recovery: Why addiction is not a disease.

Flagg Miller

Interview: Al-Qaeda on Al-Qaeda: Analyzing the Bin Laden tape archive.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Interview: On survival, growth and mushrooms in the ruins of capitalism.

Greg Grandin

Interview: Wars abroad for battles at home: Henry Kissinger's imperial architecture.

Megan Erickson

Interview: Selling childhood in an age of austerity and division.

Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti

Interview: A new understanding of urban violence, from the margins of Buenos Aires.

Erin Murphy

Interview: DNA evidence is subject to the same errors and abuses as the rest of the justice system.

Antony Loewenstein

Interview: Disaster by design: How corporations cash in on endless global war.