读《FT·金融时报》学英语：《暗钱》

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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.
我推荐简·梅耶尔的《暗钱》。不是因为文字方面《暗钱》和我自己著作书名里的黑暗物质不谋而合，而是因为梅耶尔的书很好地阐释了，极端乃至疯狂的想法如何成为政治对话和政策方针中的常态，还甚至占据了主导地位。梅耶尔指出金钱非但可以收买选举，它还可以收买意识，或至少是意识上的接纳。

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.
作为一名教授，我对大学里金钱可以收买中间派的现象感到不安。这些现象是“收买智囊团”意识走向合法化的推手。而后这些被收买的智囊团会成为糟糕政策的辩护者。《暗钱》帮助我们理解这个被全然颠覆的环境。