讀《FT·金融時報》學英語：《暗錢》

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Lisa Randall
Author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
《Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs》作者

I recommend Jane Mayer's Dark Money (Scribe/ Doubleday)—not because of the wordplay on dark matter but because Mayer's book does as good a job as any could of explaining how extreme, even crazy ideas have not only become normal in political dialogue and policy but have even come to dominate.Mayer's point isn't just that money can buy elections.It's that it can buy ideas, or at least their acceptance.
我推薦簡·梅耶爾的《暗錢》。不是因為文字方面《暗錢》和我自己著作書名里的黑暗物質(zhì)不謀而合，而是因為梅耶爾的書很好地闡釋了，極端乃至瘋狂的想法如何成為政治對話和政策方針中的常態(tài)，還甚至占據(jù)了主導地位。梅耶爾指出金錢非但可以收買選舉，它還可以收買意識，或至少是意識上的接納。

As a professor, I'm especially disturbed by money that buys centres at universities, which legitimise ideas to be used by purchased think-tanks that are then used to justify atrocious policies.Dark Money helps us understand our radically changed landscape.
作為一名教授，我對大學里金錢可以收買中間派的現(xiàn)象感到不安。這些現(xiàn)象是“收買智囊團”意識走向合法化的推手。而后這些被收買的智囊團會成為糟糕政策的辯護者。《暗錢》幫助我們理解這個被全然顛覆的環(huán)境。