The Spillover

Spillover Summer Reading: The Best Books on Forecasting, Silicon Valley, and the Future

August 5, 2026·1h 7m
Episode Description from the Publisher

In this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby swap summer reading recommendations, including fiction and nonfiction picks covering American thinkers’ predictions for the twentieth century, an Irish murder mystery, and a Stanford student’s exposé on Silicon Valley venture capital and start-up culture. Hosts:   Sebastian Mallaby, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)   Rebecca Patterson, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)   Mentioned on the Episode:   Dave Walter, Today Then   Manoj Pradhan and Charles Goodhart, The Unanchored Central Banker Tana French, The Keeper   Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance   Theo Baker, How to Rule the World   Want to keep up with The Spillover? Sign up to receive an email alert when new episodes are released.   The Spillover is a production of the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed on the show are solely those of the hosts and guests, not of the Council, which takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.

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