Reading List Convergence

At the moment I’m reading The Man in High Castle by Philip K. Dick and Ethical Realism by Anatol Levin and John Hulsman. I cannot recommend either book enough. Reading the two books together has made each all the more interesting. The Man in High Castle, arguably the first real “alt-history” book, deals with a world in which the Axis won WWII. Ethical Realism is part history of Cold War foreign policy, part excoriation of the Bush administration and complicit Democrats, part analysis of how a failure to remember the former resulted in the policies of the latter. To read a fictional account of an era along side a very accurate history of it is a weird and wonderful thing.