There's some interesting essays in here but a great many of them are very stupid. The Samantha Power and Jack Goldsmith essays are interesting for their author's perspectives as former government officials. Powers's perspective on foreign disinformation and hacking's impact on the election was interesting because of her former role as a high level diplomat. The Jack Goldsmith essay was a history of domestic intelligence gathering (and dirty tricks) from the perspective of an intelligence community insider. I disagree with Powers and Goldsmith on certain key points, but their perspective as experts made for good essays.
Watt's critique of Common Sense is another outstanding essay, breaking down how "common sense" in political discourse is a code word to differentiate an in-group from "others".
I also enjoyed Elster's essay on Napoleon III's rise to power, even if (by his own admission) the story is of limited relevance to the situation we find ourselves in today.
Other honorable mentions are the essays by Minnow, Strauss, Holmes, & Stone.
The rest of the essays were kinda stupid.
Some of the more optimistic essays (such as Sunstein's & Stenner's/Haidt's) seemed to be backed up mostly by selective memory and wishful thinking.
Cowen's essay suggests that the US government is too large and decentralized for fascists to take over, while ignoring other factors, such as the militarization of police throughout the country.
Feldman's essay tried to answer the title question through pedantry. Actually, many of the essays got hung up on inconsequential differences between 1930s-style fascism and the kinds of authoritarianism we are seeing develop throughout the world today.
Kuran's idea that students and activists working to shut down fascists are the real authoritarians is idiotic.
Overall, this book was a little disappointing.

Zombie apocalypse told in the form of vignettes in the form of interviews. Despite being a zombie horror story, it has a lot of heart. The one with the dogs and the bit about the whales made me especially sad. While some of the characters were just kind of explication vehicles, some of the characters were also very compelling (such as the guy with the dogs, the girl who went to Canada, the Hikikomori, and the Hibakusha). World War Z also has a lot of humor.

Follows the lives & experiences of various workers who came from the rural country to work in the factories of Dongguan. Also follows the life and experiences of the author and her family. I found both the stories of the young workers making it in the big city and the stories of the author's family being scattered by the wars of the 20th century to be very engaging. The author's family stories provided much of the historical background in Factory Girls, although the author seemed to be trying to connect her family's sojourns to those of China's migrant workers. There is a surprising amount of humor too.

Introduction to the life of J Edgar Hoover. Before I read this book, I hadn't realized how thoroughly the FBI was the product of Hoover's skilled publicity and political maneuvering. It makes me want to read more about the history of the FBI!

Not sure if we can call this a novel or not. It's more of an anthropology or archaeology of the future. Very slow moving and conceptual and philosophical. There's a story of a journey (Stone Telling), but there's a bunch of other short stories, and poems and non-sequiteurs. Explores philosophy of life & art. Rewards close reading, so I think I'll re-read the book, & look for the cassette that originally came with it (recently re-issued on CD & LP under the title "Music & Poetry of the Kesh" https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh).

Memoir of a woman working at Facebook 2005-2010. An inside look at how Facebook became the social media platform we know, love, & hate today. Includes much discussion of workplace culture at Facebook & in Silicon Valley in general. Losse speculates on Zuckerberg's motivations and worldview, but her account solidifies my image of him as a profit-robot. Losse's account also solidifies the view that the dissemination of spam and disinformation is a feature not a bug of facebook. The part towards the end where a parade of Russian investors (with possible mob connections) now feels very topical, introducing the possibility that the largest social media site in America was cultivated early on by Russian oligarchs and mobsters.
A good read. Now I'm just waiting for a MySpace tell-all to come out.

Amazing time-travelling slave narrative. Explores the complex and twisted relationships of masters and slaves. Butler writes with a lot of heart, but she is merciless! A great illustration of how white & male supremacy stunts all relationships.
The edition I read had a whole introductory essay by Robert Crosley, so I don't feel like there's that much more for me to add in a review of Kindred. Crosley's intro had a lot of spoilers, but it did help me look out for details and ideas that I probably wouldn't have caught if I had skipped it, or read it at the end. Also, the edition I read was an omnibus of the 2 Parable books, with Kindred at the end. I would suggest reading Kindred before reading the Parables, since Butler wrote it first, and it deals with the present and the past (while the Parables are all about looking ahead.

Graphic Biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Don't skip the endnotes; they add a lot of background info and the commentary is sometimes hilarious. The author sometimes admits the limitations of himself as a white man writing a biography of such an iconoclastic black author, but it's hard to imagine anyone capturing everything about Hurston (except perhaps for the lady herself, teamed up with an interviewer, who would then have a catastrophic falling out with her afterwards). Author/Artist has also done a bio of Margaret Sanger, and I can't wait to check it out (from the library).

Focuses on Ms Marvel's friends. Maybe it's a superhero comics thing, but I feel like the story was a little rushed. I think I would have liked the story better if it had been slower with more build up and character development. It was still a fun read!

Child of Pied Noirs' memoir of her trip to Algeria to visit her family's old hometown, guided by an Algerian expatriate. Also tells the story of the Pied Noirs and Algeria's war of independence. Touches on Algeria's post liberation struggles.