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Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre • 1943

Consciousness is a hole in being. What pours through is freedom, and it terrifies us.

3.99

35k+

🖤 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🏛️ Ontology 🧠 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Intersubjectivity

Being and Nothingness

Consciousness is a hole in being. What pours through is freedom, and it terrifies us.

by Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 688 pages

3.99

35k+ ratings

🖤 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🏛️ Ontology 🧠 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Intersubjectivity

Censored

by Margaret E. Roberts • 2018

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

4.18

123

🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

Censored

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

by Margaret E. Roberts 2018 280 pages

4.18

123 ratings

🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

For Love of Country

by Tulsi Gabbard • 2024

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

4.34

2k+

🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

For Love of Country

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

by Tulsi Gabbard 2024 242 pages

4.34

2k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

by Konstantin Kisin • 2022

A Russian immigrant watches the West abandon freedoms his family fled the Soviet Union to reach.

4.24

1k+

🏛️ Western Civilization 🗣️ Free Speech 📝 Cultural Commentary ⚡ Anti-Woke Critique 🛂 Immigration Policy

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

A Russian immigrant watches the West abandon freedoms his family fled the Soviet Union to reach.

by Konstantin Kisin 2022 208 pages

4.24

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Civilization 🗣️ Free Speech 📝 Cultural Commentary ⚡ Anti-Woke Critique 🛂 Immigration Policy

Shitbürgertum

by Ulf Poschardt • 2025

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

3.21

301

🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

Shitbürgertum

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

by Ulf Poschardt 2025 164 pages

3.21

301 ratings

🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

Free Speech

by Nigel Warburton • 2009

Silencing one dissenter wounds truth. Hate speech and pornography test whether we still believe it.

3.64

500+

🗣️ Free Speech Theory ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🚫 Censorship Debates 🛑 Hate Speech Law

Free Speech

Silencing one dissenter wounds truth. Hate speech and pornography test whether we still believe it.

by Nigel Warburton 2009 115 pages

3.64

500+ ratings

🗣️ Free Speech Theory ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🚫 Censorship Debates 🛑 Hate Speech Law

Joseph Anton

by Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9k+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

by Salman Rushdie 2012 656 pages

3.65

9k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

The Red Web

by Andrei Soldatov • 2015

The Soviet Union fell but its surveillance state survived, rewired for the internet age.

3.95

500+

🏛️ Digital Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Putin's Russia 👁️ Surveillance State 🌐 Internet Governance ⚔️ Information Warfare

The Red Web

The Soviet Union fell but its surveillance state survived, rewired for the internet age.

by Andrei Soldatov 2015 384 pages

3.95

500+ ratings

🏛️ Digital Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Putin's Russia 👁️ Surveillance State 🌐 Internet Governance ⚔️ Information Warfare

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.

3.76

3k+

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

Don’t Burn This Book

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

by Dave Rubin 2020 256 pages

3.76

3k+ ratings

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

Slanted

by Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

4.31

1k+

📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Slanted

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

by Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 pages

4.31

1k+ ratings

📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Imam's Daughter

by Hannah Shah • 2009

An imam's abused daughter fled a forced marriage at sixteen. Her family hunted her for years.

4.15

2k+

🩸 Honor Killings 💍 Forced Marriage ⛪ Religious Abuse 💔 Childhood Abuse ✝️ Conversion Memoir

The Imam's Daughter

An imam's abused daughter fled a forced marriage at sixteen. Her family hunted her for years.

by Hannah Shah 2009 288 pages

4.15

2k+ ratings

🩸 Honor Killings 💍 Forced Marriage ⛪ Religious Abuse 💔 Childhood Abuse ✝️ Conversion Memoir

Nothing to Hide

by Daniel J. Solove • 2011

Sacrificing privacy for security is a false bargain; the real cost is liberty itself.

3.85

182

🔒 Digital Privacy 👁️ Government Surveillance ⚖️ Privacy Law 📊 Data Mining 📜 Fourth Amendment

Nothing to Hide

Sacrificing privacy for security is a false bargain; the real cost is liberty itself.

by Daniel J. Solove 2011 256 pages

3.85

182 ratings

🔒 Digital Privacy 👁️ Government Surveillance ⚖️ Privacy Law 📊 Data Mining 📜 Fourth Amendment

Freedom and Neurobiology

by John Rogers Searle • 2005

Free will is a biological fact, and political power rests on what we collectively agree to accept.

3.56

246

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🏛️ Social Construction 🕊️ Free Will 🧩 Consciousness 🗣️ Speech Act Theory

Freedom and Neurobiology

Free will is a biological fact, and political power rests on what we collectively agree to accept.

by John Rogers Searle 2005 113 pages

3.56

246 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🏛️ Social Construction 🕊️ Free Will 🧩 Consciousness 🗣️ Speech Act Theory

Truth in Our Times

by David E. McCraw • 2019

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

4.14

500+

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Truth in Our Times

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

by David E. McCraw 2019 304 pages

4.14

500+ ratings

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

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

500+

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

Free Speech

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

by Jacob Mchangama 2022 528 pages

4.18

500+ ratings

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

Libertad o tiranía

by Cristina Martín Jiménez • 2024

Those seventeen UN goals to save the world are actually a plan to own it.

4.03

🤔 Conspiracy Theories 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🏛️ Global Governance 👁️ New World Order 👥 Population Control

Libertad o tiranía

Those seventeen UN goals to save the world are actually a plan to own it.

by Cristina Martín Jiménez 2024 493 pages

4.03

71 ratings

🤔 Conspiracy Theories 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🏛️ Global Governance 👁️ New World Order 👥 Population Control

The Flight Of The Eagle

by J. Krishnamurti • 2004

You cannot fight your mind with your mind: the effort is the wound, not the cure.

4.23

455

☯️ Non Dualism 🔍 Self Inquiry 🕊️ Inner Freedom 🧘 Effortless Awareness 👁️ Direct Perception

The Flight Of The Eagle

You cannot fight your mind with your mind: the effort is the wound, not the cure.

by J. Krishnamurti 2004 174 pages

4.23

455 ratings

☯️ Non Dualism 🔍 Self Inquiry 🕊️ Inner Freedom 🧘 Effortless Awareness 👁️ Direct Perception

Capitalism Unbound

by Andrew Bernstein • 2009

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

4.36

🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

Capitalism Unbound

Before capitalism, life expectancy was under 35. The moral case for freedom starts with that number.

by Andrew Bernstein 2009 146 pages

4.36

50 ratings

🗿 Objectivism 💼 Laissez-Faire ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ✊ Individual Rights 🏛️ Classical Liberalism

The Indispensable Right

by Jonathan Turley • 2024

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

4.36

414

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Indispensable Right

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

by Jonathan Turley 2024 432 pages

4.36

414 ratings

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Case Against Socialism

by Rand Paul • 2019

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

4.18

1k+

🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

The Case Against Socialism

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

by Rand Paul 2019 373 pages

4.18

1k+ ratings

🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

Rise

by Brigitte Gabriel • 2018

Radical Islam and the left share one project: dismantling the West. A former refugee's battle plan.

4.31

100

🏛️ Judeo-Christian Values ⚔️ Islamic Radicalism 🗽 Immigration Policy 🤐 Political Correctness 🗣️ Free Speech Defense

Rise

Radical Islam and the left share one project: dismantling the West. A former refugee's battle plan.

by Brigitte Gabriel 2018 272 pages

4.31

100 ratings

🏛️ Judeo-Christian Values ⚔️ Islamic Radicalism 🗽 Immigration Policy 🤐 Political Correctness 🗣️ Free Speech Defense

Liberalism

by Edmund Fawcett • 2014

Liberalism is a two-century argument, not a creed: over freedom, power, and who belongs.

3.90

277

🏛️ Political Theory 💡 Intellectual History 🗽 Liberal Tradition 📊 Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Theory

Liberalism

Liberalism is a two-century argument, not a creed: over freedom, power, and who belongs.

by Edmund Fawcett 2014 488 pages

3.90

277 ratings

🏛️ Political Theory 💡 Intellectual History 🗽 Liberal Tradition 📊 Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Theory

The Picnic

by Matthew Longo • 2024

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

4.22

500+

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

The Picnic

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

by Matthew Longo 2024 320 pages

4.22

500+ ratings

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

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