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Thinkers including K. Anthony Appiah, Priya Satia, and Greil Marcus pick their favorites.

Contributors to the January 2022 issue of TD magazine offer their book recommendations.

Take-no-prisoners memoirs, plus the inside track on Brexit, Sage and Unite

The Straits Times Mr Spock is not as logical as he'd like to think The Vulcan is a dramatic portrayal of the mistakes economists make in assuming that everyone is rational Tim Harford The sort of “rational”, overconfident forecasts made by Mr Spock and other fictional characters is common in real-world punditry.PHOTO: PARAMOUNT PublishedJun 17, 2021, 5:00 am SGT New: Gift this subscriber-only story to your friends and family https://str.sg/34co They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full

The Scout Mindset: What we learned from Dominic Cummings’ favourite self-help book Melanie McDonagh Self help books come and go, an awful lot of them coming from the US, home of self-reinvention. But few of them are required reading for anyone interested in Dominic Cummings’ thinking as he prepares to give evidence to a parliamentary committee tomorrow about the PM’s handling of the Covid pandemic. In a tweet a few days ago he declared that, “If the 20 most influential people dealing with Covid in UK Government had read/internalised Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset, ...