What I'm reading about the tech right and Trump, a gonzo Iron-Age movie with dialogue in proto-Latin, my all-time favorite album now on streaming

Roundup 01/27/2025

Greetings from Read Max HQ, and welcome to our weekly roundup column, in which I pick out some worthwhile and often overlooked books, articles, movies, and music to recommend to paying subscribers. For this week’s round-up, I’ve got:

• A selection of articles and columns I’ve been reading about Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and associated depressing topics;

• an excellently cheesy and delightfully fun Italian action movie set in a mostly period-accurate Iron Age; and

• one of my favorite albums of all time, re-released and available on streaming for the first time.

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Now, the roundup: