Politics
Power flows through the halls of government and the pages of these books, where visionary leaders, economic forces, and social movements shape our world. Here you'll find penetrating analyses of political systems and ideologies alongside intimate portraits of the brilliant minds who've changed history through revolution, reform, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
Politics Book Summaries
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
The People Vs Tech
How the Internet Is Killing Democracy
Politics
Technology
Science
Off With Her Head
Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
History
Feminism
Politics
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Politics
Environment
Economics
The Servile State
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Revolutionary Power
An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
Environment
Climate Change
Social Justice
Jerusalem
The Biography
History
Religion
Biography
Breakout Nations
In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Economics
Business
Finance
Makers and Takers
The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Economics
Business
Finance
Our Malady
Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Politics
History
Medicine
The Price of Everything
A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
Economics
Business
Finance
Trust Kids!
Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
Parenting
Politics
Psychology
China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
China
Economics
Politics
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
History
Politics
Memoir
The Envoy
From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Biography
Politics
History
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
Politics
History
Military Fiction
Unmasked
Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
Politics
History
Sociology
A Higher Loyalty
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Drift
Politics
History
War
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers
Memoir
LGBT
Humor
Language City
The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Language
Linguistics
History
How to Run a Government
So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Political Ecology
A Critical Introduction
Environment
Politics
Anthropology
Men Explain Things to Me
Feminism
Essays
Politics
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
History
Politics
Holocaust
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Politics
Economics
History
The Indoctrinated Brain
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
Psychology
Politics
Science
Long Walk to Freedom
Biography
History
Memoir
The Tiger That Isn't
Seeing Through a World of Numbers
Science
Economics
Mathematics
Unshrinking
How to Face Fatphobia
Feminism
Philosophy
Health
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
The Wife Drought
Feminism
Book Club
Australia
Nothing But The Truth
The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Law
Crime
Biography
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
Who Gets What ― and Why
The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
Economics
Business
Science
The War That Ended Peace
The Road to 1914
History
World War I
War
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
India
Politics
History
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
The Power Worshippers
Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Politics
Religion
History
Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
New Power
How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You
Business
Politics
Leadership
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Economics
Politics
History
The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
In Trump Time
A Journal of America's Plague Year
Politics
History
Political Science
We Are Anonymous
Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Technology
History
Politics
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
History
Politics
Biography
The Looting Machine
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Africa
History
Politics
Republic, Lost
How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Politics
Economics
History
Final Pagan Generation
Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
History
Religion
Christianity
Time to Think
The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
Politics
Gender
Science
