What to Book: Harpoon by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz. An interesting, and at times riveting, account of how Mossad (and eventually its global counterparts) realized the key to fighting terrorism is to choke off the flow of money. Harpoon is also an eye-opening guide to the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated illegal operations, from rogue governments to terrorists outfits to money launderers to the drug cartels. (For a browsable look at all the books you could want for your holiday reading binge, check out GoodReads Best Books of 2017; it’s like the People’s Choice Awards for books…)

+ What to Word: For many readers, the link to the NextDraft word of the year didn’t work yesterday. Hopefully it does today.

+ What to TV: The perfect Christmas content for those not feeling the Christmas spirit is Black Mirror’s White Christmas starring Jon Hamm.

+ What to Learn: Tom Whitwell’s pretty random and very interesting list of 52 things I Learned in 2017.