50 Books like The War on Science

Parasitic Mind

by Gad Saad • 2020

The West is not just polarized; it is infected. The pathogen came from the university.

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🦠 Idea Contagion 🏛️ Campus Culture Wars 🎭 Identity Politics 🤐 Political Correctness 🩹 Victimhood Culture

Parasitic Mind 95%

The West is not just polarized; it is infected. The pathogen came from the university.

by Gad Saad 2020

3.94

9k+ ratings

🦠 Idea Contagion 🏛️ Campus Culture Wars 🎭 Identity Politics 🤐 Political Correctness 🩹 Victimhood Culture

Cynical Theories

by Helen Pluckrose • 2020

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

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🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

Cynical Theories 95%

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

by Helen Pluckrose 2020

4.10

6k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

How Woke Won

by Joanna Williams • 2022

Woke ideology was not a grassroots uprising: it was imposed from above to divide and control.

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🏛️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🎓 Academic Freedom 🗣️ Free Speech 😢 Victimhood Culture

How Woke Won 95%

Woke ideology was not a grassroots uprising: it was imposed from above to divide and control.

by Joanna Williams 2022

4.09

175 ratings

🏛️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🎓 Academic Freedom 🗣️ Free Speech 😢 Victimhood Culture

The Constitution of Knowledge

by Jonathan Rauch • 2021

Two invisible rules keep society tethered to reality. Both are being dismantled.

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🧠 Social Epistemology 🏛️ Liberal Tradition 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📢 Disinformation 🎯 Cancel Culture

The Constitution of Knowledge 95%

Two invisible rules keep society tethered to reality. Both are being dismantled.

by Jonathan Rauch 2021

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Social Epistemology 🏛️ Liberal Tradition 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📢 Disinformation 🎯 Cancel Culture

The Tyranny of Opinion

by Russell Blackford • 2018

Conformity is eating liberalism from the inside, and censors don't all sit on the right.

3.92

🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎯 Cancel Culture 🪪 Identity Politics 🐑 Conformity

The Tyranny of Opinion 94%

Conformity is eating liberalism from the inside, and censors don't all sit on the right.

by Russell Blackford 2018

3.92

36 ratings

🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎯 Cancel Culture 🪪 Identity Politics 🐑 Conformity

The Madness of Crowds

by Douglas Murray • 2019

Identity politics became the West's substitute faith. A gay dissenter counts what we are losing.

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🏷️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 🩹 Victimhood Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

The Madness of Crowds 94%

Identity politics became the West's substitute faith. A gay dissenter counts what we are losing.

by Douglas Murray 2019

4.20

17k+ ratings

🏷️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 🩹 Victimhood Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

Free Speech And Why It Matters

by Andrew Doyle • 2021

The argument for free speech when offense is treated as violence and platforms police every word.

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🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Hate Speech Laws 🔕 Censorship

Free Speech And Why It Matters 93%

The argument for free speech when offense is treated as violence and platforms police every word.

by Andrew Doyle 2021

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1k+ ratings

🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Hate Speech Laws 🔕 Censorship

The Identity Trap

by Yascha Mounk • 2023

An ideology that centers race and gender is dividing the left. The origin story, and a better way.

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🏛️ Identity Politics 💬 Free Speech Debate ⚖️ Equity Vs Equality 📚 Critical Theory Critique 🌐 Social Cohesion

The Identity Trap 93%

An ideology that centers race and gender is dividing the left. The origin story, and a better way.

by Yascha Mounk 2023

4.05

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Identity Politics 💬 Free Speech Debate ⚖️ Equity Vs Equality 📚 Critical Theory Critique 🌐 Social Cohesion

Science Fictions

by Stuart Ritchie • 2020

From power posing to cancer cures, how fraud, hype, and broken incentives corrupt science.

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🧪 Metascience 🔁 Replication Crisis 🕵️ Scientific Misconduct 📉 Publication Bias 🔓 Open Science

Science Fictions 93%

From power posing to cancer cures, how fraud, hype, and broken incentives corrupt science.

by Stuart Ritchie 2020

4.34

3k+ ratings

🧪 Metascience 🔁 Replication Crisis 🕵️ Scientific Misconduct 📉 Publication Bias 🔓 Open Science

America's Cultural Revolution

by Christopher F. Rufo • 2023

The bombs stopped. The ideas didn't. How the 1960s left captured every institution you trust.

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⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ American Conservatism 🎓 Academic Politics ✊ Student Radicalism 🏗️ Institutional Capture

America's Cultural Revolution 93%

The bombs stopped. The ideas didn't. How the 1960s left captured every institution you trust.

by Christopher F. Rufo 2023

4.21

1k+ ratings

⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ American Conservatism 🎓 Academic Politics ✊ Student Radicalism 🏗️ Institutional Capture

Speechless

by Michael J. Knowles • 2021

Political correctness is not politeness. It's a Gramscian takeover of culture, one word at a time.

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🥊 Culture Wars 🗣️ Language And Politics 🤐 Speech And Censorship 🏛️ Institutional Capture 📚 Cultural Marxism

Speechless 93%

Political correctness is not politeness. It's a Gramscian takeover of culture, one word at a time.

by Michael J. Knowles 2021

4.24

3k+ ratings

🥊 Culture Wars 🗣️ Language And Politics 🤐 Speech And Censorship 🏛️ Institutional Capture 📚 Cultural Marxism

Race Marxism

by James Lindsay • 2022

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

4.23

364

🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

Race Marxism 93%

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

by James Lindsay 2022

4.23

364 ratings

🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

Intellectuals and Society

by Thomas Sowellm • 2009

The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📢 Social Criticism 🧠 Intellectual Overreach 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚙️ Social Engineering

Intellectuals and Society 93%

The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.

by Thomas Sowellm 2009

4.29

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📢 Social Criticism 🧠 Intellectual Overreach 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚙️ Social Engineering

Testosterone

by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young • 2019

Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.

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🔬 Science Studies ♀️ Feminist Science 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science 🧬 Biology And Society ⚖️ Scientific Bias

Testosterone 93%

Testosterone isn't a male hormone or aggression fuel. The real molecule is far stranger.

by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young 2019

4.06

320 ratings

🔬 Science Studies ♀️ Feminist Science 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Science 🧬 Biology And Society ⚖️ Scientific Bias

The Closing of the American Mind

by Allan Bloom • 1988

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

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🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

The Closing of the American Mind Summary

The Closing of the American Mind 93%

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

by Allan Bloom 1988

3.76

6k+ ratings

🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

The Death of Expertise

by Thomas M. Nichols • 2017

Why do people resent the experts who know more? A diagnosis of the cultural war on knowledge.

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🛡️ Anti-Intellectualism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🗞️ Media Criticism 🎓 Higher Education Critique 🏛️ Trust In Institutions

The Death of Expertise 93%

Why do people resent the experts who know more? A diagnosis of the cultural war on knowledge.

by Thomas M. Nichols 2017

3.82

10k+ ratings

🛡️ Anti-Intellectualism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🗞️ Media Criticism 🎓 Higher Education Critique 🏛️ Trust In Institutions

Don’t Burn This Book

by Dave Rubin • 2020

A former progressive's playbook for when the mob calls you a Nazi and demands an apology.

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🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🌐 Intellectual Dark Web ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 📰 Media Bias

Don’t Burn This Book 93%

A former progressive's playbook for when the mob calls you a Nazi and demands an apology.

by Dave Rubin 2020

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4k+ ratings

🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🌐 Intellectual Dark Web ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 📰 Media Bias

Nonsense on Stilts

by Massimo Pigliucci • 2008

Science isn't one method but many. Learn how they actually work, and the impostors can't hide.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🚧 Demarcation Problem 🔮 Pseudoscience 🔬 Scientific Method 🏛️ Science And Society

Nonsense on Stilts 93%

Science isn't one method but many. Learn how they actually work, and the impostors can't hide.

by Massimo Pigliucci 2008

3.89

1k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🚧 Demarcation Problem 🔮 Pseudoscience 🔬 Scientific Method 🏛️ Science And Society

A Letter to Liberals

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • 2022

Science silenced, dissent crushed, trillions siphoned: the pandemic response that liberals policed.

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🏥 Public Health Policy 💉 Vaccine Safety ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

A Letter to Liberals 93%

Science silenced, dissent crushed, trillions siphoned: the pandemic response that liberals policed.

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2022

4.39

359 ratings

🏥 Public Health Policy 💉 Vaccine Safety ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

What's Our Problem?

by Tim Urban • 2023

A society can think like a scientist or a zealot. Right now, the zealot is in charge.

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🧭 Polarization 👥 Tribalism 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏷 Identity Politics 🧠 Group Psychology

What's Our Problem? 93%

A society can think like a scientist or a zealot. Right now, the zealot is in charge.

by Tim Urban 2023

4.24

6k+ ratings

🧭 Polarization 👥 Tribalism 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏷 Identity Politics 🧠 Group Psychology

Excellent Sheep

by William Deresiewicz • 2014

Elite universities promise merit; they deliver a system that rewards compliance over curiosity.

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🎓 Higher Education ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 💸 Class Privilege 📖 Liberal Arts Defense 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Excellent Sheep 93%

Elite universities promise merit; they deliver a system that rewards compliance over curiosity.

by William Deresiewicz 2014

3.88

7k+ ratings

🎓 Higher Education ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 💸 Class Privilege 📖 Liberal Arts Defense 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Don't Burn This Country

by Dave Rubin • 2022

The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.

3.90

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🚫 Cancel Culture Critique 💪 Self-Reliance 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Institutional Decline 🗣️ Free Speech

Don't Burn This Country 93%

The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.

by Dave Rubin 2022

3.90

498 ratings

🚫 Cancel Culture Critique 💪 Self-Reliance 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Institutional Decline 🗣️ Free Speech

The Joy of Science

by Jim Al-Khalili • 2022

Spot falsehoods, change your mind, and find wonder: the scientific method applied to daily life.

3.60

624

🔬 Scientific Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📰 Misinformation 🤔 Critical Thinking ✨ Scientific Wonder

The Joy of Science 93%

Spot falsehoods, change your mind, and find wonder: the scientific method applied to daily life.

by Jim Al-Khalili 2022

3.60

624 ratings

🔬 Scientific Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📰 Misinformation 🤔 Critical Thinking ✨ Scientific Wonder

The End of Gender

by Debra Soh • 2020

A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.

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3k+

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧️ Transgender Debate ♂️♀️ Sex Differences 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria ✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism

The End of Gender 92%

A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.

by Debra Soh 2020

3.90

3k+ ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧️ Transgender Debate ♂️♀️ Sex Differences 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria ✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism

Pasteur's Quadrant

by Donald E. Stokes • 1997

The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.

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150

🧪 Science Policy 💰 Research Funding 🧬 Basic Research 🏛️ Government Science 🧑‍🔬 Scientific Workforce

Pasteur's Quadrant 92%

The report that sold America on funding pure science: the engine of health, security, and growth.

by Donald E. Stokes 1997

3.82

150 ratings

🧪 Science Policy 💰 Research Funding 🧬 Basic Research 🏛️ Government Science 🧑‍🔬 Scientific Workforce

The Age of American Unreason

by Susan Jacoby • 2008

Suspicion of ideas predates the American republic. The forces feeding it have never been louder.

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🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📚 Intellectual History 📺 Media Criticism 🔬 Science Denial

The Age of American Unreason 92%

Suspicion of ideas predates the American republic. The forces feeding it have never been louder.

by Susan Jacoby 2008

3.85

3k+ ratings

🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📚 Intellectual History 📺 Media Criticism 🔬 Science Denial

Free Speech

by Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

4.18

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Free Speech 92%

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

by Jacob Mchangama 2022

4.18

500 ratings

📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

The Abolition of Man

by C.S. Lewis • 1943

The final product of denying objective value is not freedom but a humanity ruled by impulse.

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🏛️ Natural Law Ethics 🔬 Scientism Critique 🎭 Subjectivism Critique 📚 Classical Education ⚖️ Objectivity Of Morality

The Abolition of Man 92%

The final product of denying objective value is not freedom but a humanity ruled by impulse.

by C.S. Lewis 1943

4.12

42k+ ratings

🏛️ Natural Law Ethics 🔬 Scientism Critique 🎭 Subjectivism Critique 📚 Classical Education ⚖️ Objectivity Of Morality

Deception

by Rand Paul • 2023

The lab-leak evidence the NIH buried and the scientific establishment's campaign to dismiss it.

4.47

549

🦠 Pandemic Origins 🤫 Scientific Censorship 🕵️ Institutional Cover-Up 📣 Whistleblowers 🐍 Libertarian Critique

Deception 92%

The lab-leak evidence the NIH buried and the scientific establishment's campaign to dismiss it.

by Rand Paul 2023

4.47

549 ratings

🦠 Pandemic Origins 🤫 Scientific Censorship 🕵️ Institutional Cover-Up 📣 Whistleblowers 🐍 Libertarian Critique

Ignorance

by Stuart Firestein • 2012

Science runs on ignorance not facts and the real skill is knowing which question to chase.

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1k+

🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🎓 Science Education 🔬 Scientific Method 🔍 Research Practice 🗣️ Public Understanding Of Science

Ignorance 92%

Science runs on ignorance not facts and the real skill is knowing which question to chase.

by Stuart Firestein 2012

3.86

1k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🎓 Science Education 🔬 Scientific Method 🔍 Research Practice 🗣️ Public Understanding Of Science

A Lab of One's Own

by Rita Colwell • 2020

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

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🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

A Lab of One's Own 92%

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

by Rita Colwell 2020

4.24

719 ratings

🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

Marxismo norteamericano

by Mark R. Levin • 2021

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

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🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

Marxismo norteamericano 92%

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

by Mark R. Levin 2021

4.16

4k+ ratings

🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

The Vision of the Anointed

by Thomas Sowell • 1995

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

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3k+

🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

The Vision of the Anointed 92%

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

by Thomas Sowell 1995

4.40

3k+ ratings

🧐 Public Policy 📢 Social Criticism 📊 Statistical Fallacies 💥 Policy Failure 🎭 Ideological Bias

In Defense of a Liberal Education

by Fareed Zakaria • 2015

The STEM panic misses the real skills gap: writing, analysis, and learning how to learn.

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3k+

📚 Liberal Arts Defense 🏛️ Higher Education Crisis ✍️ Writing As Thinking 📜 History Of Universities 💻 Online Education

In Defense of a Liberal Education Summary

In Defense of a Liberal Education 92%

The STEM panic misses the real skills gap: writing, analysis, and learning how to learn.

by Fareed Zakaria 2015

3.83

3k+ ratings

📚 Liberal Arts Defense 🏛️ Higher Education Crisis ✍️ Writing As Thinking 📜 History Of Universities 💻 Online Education

Liberty in the Age of Terror

by A.C. Grayling • 2009

The West answered terrorism by curtailing the very liberties it claimed to protect.

3.57

143

🛡️ Civil Liberties 💣 War On Terror 💬 Free Speech 👁️ Surveillance State 🎭 Identity Politics

Liberty in the Age of Terror 92%

The West answered terrorism by curtailing the very liberties it claimed to protect.

by A.C. Grayling 2009

3.57

143 ratings

🛡️ Civil Liberties 💣 War On Terror 💬 Free Speech 👁️ Surveillance State 🎭 Identity Politics

Post-Truth

by Lee McIntyre • 2018

Tobacco companies perfected the blueprint for making people doubt facts. Now it powers politics.

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2k+

🔬 Science Denial 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📢 Disinformation 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🏛️ Post-Truth Politics

Post-Truth 92%

Tobacco companies perfected the blueprint for making people doubt facts. Now it powers politics.

by Lee McIntyre 2018

4.01

2k+ ratings

🔬 Science Denial 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📢 Disinformation 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🏛️ Post-Truth Politics

Time to Think

by Hannah Barnes • 2023

A children's gender clinic gave puberty blockers, tracked nothing, and silenced its own staff.

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🏥 Gender Medicine ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏚️ Institutional Failure 📋 Healthcare Policy 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Time to Think 92%

A children's gender clinic gave puberty blockers, tracked nothing, and silenced its own staff.

by Hannah Barnes 2023

4.33

1k+ ratings

🏥 Gender Medicine ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏚️ Institutional Failure 📋 Healthcare Policy 🔍 Investigative Journalism

10 Books That Screwed Up the World

by Benjamin Wiker • 2008

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism ⚠️ Dangerous Ideas 🔗 Totalitarianism Origins

10 Books That Screwed Up the World Summary

10 Books That Screwed Up the World 92%

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

by Benjamin Wiker 2008

3.43

1k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism ⚠️ Dangerous Ideas 🔗 Totalitarianism Origins

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro • 2020

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

4.06

5k+

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Summary

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps 92%

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

by Ben Shapiro 2020

4.06

5k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

Sex Matters

by Mona Charen • 2018

Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.

3.71

331

🔍 Feminism Critique 🧬 Sex Differences 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💍 Marriage Defense 🍸 Hookup Culture

Sex Matters 92%

Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.

by Mona Charen 2018

3.71

331 ratings

🔍 Feminism Critique 🧬 Sex Differences 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💍 Marriage Defense 🍸 Hookup Culture

The Golem (Canto Classics)

by Harry Collins • 1992

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

3.77

341

🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

The Golem (Canto Classics) 92%

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

by Harry Collins 1992

3.77

341 ratings

🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

The Misinformation Age

by Cailin O'Connor • 2018

False beliefs spread through social networks, not faulty brains. And the math proves it.

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🧠 Social Epistemology 🕸️ Network Science 💭 Belief Formation 🏭 Manufactured Doubt 🔬 Scientific Consensus

The Misinformation Age 92%

False beliefs spread through social networks, not faulty brains. And the math proves it.

by Cailin O'Connor 2018

3.77

1k+ ratings

🧠 Social Epistemology 🕸️ Network Science 💭 Belief Formation 🏭 Manufactured Doubt 🔬 Scientific Consensus

Groupthink

by Christopher Booker • 2020

The psychological engine behind the Reign of Terror now powers modern politics and climate policy.

3.12

116

🧠 Mass Psychology 👥 Social Conformity 🫧 Collective Delusion 📢 Echo Chambers 🏛️ Ideological Capture

Groupthink 92%

The psychological engine behind the Reign of Terror now powers modern politics and climate policy.

by Christopher Booker 2020

3.12

116 ratings

🧠 Mass Psychology 👥 Social Conformity 🫧 Collective Delusion 📢 Echo Chambers 🏛️ Ideological Capture

Google Archipelago

by Michael Rectenwald • 2019

Silicon Valley didn't just get political. It built a totalitarian machine and called it progress.

3.84

120

🤖 Big Tech Criticism 🚫 Cancel Culture 🔇 Digital Censorship 🗣️ Free Speech 📹 Digital Surveillance

Google Archipelago 92%

Silicon Valley didn't just get political. It built a totalitarian machine and called it progress.

by Michael Rectenwald 2019

3.84

120 ratings

🤖 Big Tech Criticism 🚫 Cancel Culture 🔇 Digital Censorship 🗣️ Free Speech 📹 Digital Surveillance

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

by Chris Chambers • 2017

How psychology's methods enable bias, fraud, and shaky results, and the reform that could fix them.

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🔬 Research Methods 🔄 Replication Crisis 🔓 Open Science 🚫 Research Misconduct 📊 Data Manipulation

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology Summary

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology 92%

How psychology's methods enable bias, fraud, and shaky results, and the reform that could fix them.

by Chris Chambers 2017

4.41

268 ratings

🔬 Research Methods 🔄 Replication Crisis 🔓 Open Science 🚫 Research Misconduct 📊 Data Manipulation

The Quick Fix

by Jesse Singal • 2021

How psychology's biggest fads escaped the lab, became policy, and did harm, despite the evidence.

3.91

1k+

🧠 Pop Psychology 🔬 Bad Science 🧪 Replication Crisis 📺 Media Hype 📰 Science Journalism

The Quick Fix 92%

How psychology's biggest fads escaped the lab, became policy, and did harm, despite the evidence.

by Jesse Singal 2021

3.91

1k+ ratings

🧠 Pop Psychology 🔬 Bad Science 🧪 Replication Crisis 📺 Media Hype 📰 Science Journalism

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

4.37

10k+

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals Summary

Black Rednecks and White Liberals 92%

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

by Thomas Sowell 2005

4.37

10k+ ratings

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Altered Inheritance

by Françoise Baylis • 2019

We can rewrite our children's genes. The danger is letting a few people set the rules.

3.53

🧬 Genome Editing ⚖️ Bioethics 🏛️ Science Policy 🌍 Genetic Justice 👶 Designer Babies

Altered Inheritance 92%

We can rewrite our children's genes. The danger is letting a few people set the rules.

by Françoise Baylis 2019

3.53

94 ratings

🧬 Genome Editing ⚖️ Bioethics 🏛️ Science Policy 🌍 Genetic Justice 👶 Designer Babies

50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True

by Guy P. Harrison • 2011

Fifty beliefs debunked, one thinking habit learned: how to spot pseudoscience before it fools you.

3.61

1k+

🔍 Modern Skepticism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 🚫 Pseudoscience 👻 Paranormal Investigation

50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True Summary

50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True 92%

Fifty beliefs debunked, one thinking habit learned: how to spot pseudoscience before it fools you.

by Guy P. Harrison 2011

3.61

1k+ ratings

🔍 Modern Skepticism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 🚫 Pseudoscience 👻 Paranormal Investigation

New Abnormal

by Aaron Kheriaty • 2022

The emergency never ended. It became a permanent way for the state to manage your body.

4.38

148

🏥 Public Health Policy ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🧬 Biopolitics 👁️ Digital Surveillance 🔬 Scientism

New Abnormal 92%

The emergency never ended. It became a permanent way for the state to manage your body.

by Aaron Kheriaty 2022

4.38

148 ratings

🏥 Public Health Policy ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🧬 Biopolitics 👁️ Digital Surveillance 🔬 Scientism

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