Best Politics Books | Summaries & Audio

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My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass • 1855

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

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🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

My Bondage and My Freedom

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

by Frederick Douglass 1855 432 pages

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12k+ ratings

🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

The Constitution of Liberty

by Friedrich A. Hayek • 1978

Socialism's fatal flaw isn't corruption: no one mind can know enough to run a nation.

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🏔️ Austrian Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🧮 Economic Calculation 📋 Central Planning 💲 Price Signals

The Constitution of Liberty

Socialism's fatal flaw isn't corruption: no one mind can know enough to run a nation.

by Friedrich A. Hayek 1978 580 pages

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🏔️ Austrian Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🧮 Economic Calculation 📋 Central Planning 💲 Price Signals

Asia's Cauldron

by Robert D. Kaplan • 2014

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

Asia's Cauldron

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

by Robert D. Kaplan 2014 256 pages

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

In Defense of Witches

by Mona Chollet • 2018

The witch hunts never ended; they just traded the stake for courtroom, clinic, and gossip.

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🧙 Witch Trials 🚫 Childfree Women 👵 Aging Women 🏥 Medical Misogyny ✊ Bodily Autonomy

In Defense of Witches

The witch hunts never ended; they just traded the stake for courtroom, clinic, and gossip.

by Mona Chollet 2018 308 pages

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🧙 Witch Trials 🚫 Childfree Women 👵 Aging Women 🏥 Medical Misogyny ✊ Bodily Autonomy

All the Shah's Men

by Stephen Kinzer • 2003

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

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🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Interventions 💥 Regime Change

All the Shah's Men

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

by Stephen Kinzer 2003 272 pages

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🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Interventions 💥 Regime Change

Rule of Wolves

by Leigh Bardugo • 2021

A demon-haunted king and a dragon general must save their kingdom from a spreading blight.

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🏛️ Political Fantasy 🤝 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Reluctant Ruler 🦹 Anti-Heroes

Rule of Wolves

A demon-haunted king and a dragon general must save their kingdom from a spreading blight.

by Leigh Bardugo 2021 592 pages

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🏛️ Political Fantasy 🤝 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👑 Reluctant Ruler 🦹 Anti-Heroes

Stolen Pride

by Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2024

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

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🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Stolen Pride

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024 400 pages

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🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Witness to Surrender

by Siddique Salik • 1977

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

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🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🎯 Counterinsurgency

Witness to Surrender

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

by Siddique Salik 1977 245 pages

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246 ratings

🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🎯 Counterinsurgency

Fellow Creatures

by Christine M. Korsgaard • 2018

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

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🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics 🐾 Animal Consciousness ⚖️ Anti-Speciesism

Fellow Creatures

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

by Christine M. Korsgaard 2018 268 pages

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🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics 🐾 Animal Consciousness ⚖️ Anti-Speciesism

Tangled Up in Blue

by Rosa Brooks • 2021

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

Tangled Up in Blue

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

by Rosa Brooks 2021 413 pages

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

The Why Axis

by Uri Gneezy • 2013

When daycare fines made parents later, the real science of incentives began.

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💡 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Field Experiments 🎯 Incentive Design 🌍 Cultural Norms ⚖️ Economic Discrimination

The Why Axis

When daycare fines made parents later, the real science of incentives began.

by Uri Gneezy 2013 290 pages

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💡 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Field Experiments 🎯 Incentive Design 🌍 Cultural Norms ⚖️ Economic Discrimination

God's Bankers

by Gerald Posner • 2015

For two millennia, money has shaped the Vatican more than any prayer.

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🏛️ Papal History ⚖️ Church And State 💰 Financial Scandals 🏦 Banking History 🔍 Investigative Journalism

God's Bankers

For two millennia, money has shaped the Vatican more than any prayer.

by Gerald Posner 2015 752 pages

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🏛️ Papal History ⚖️ Church And State 💰 Financial Scandals 🏦 Banking History 🔍 Investigative Journalism

A History of the World in 21 Women

by Jenni Murray • 2018

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A History of the World in 21 Women

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

by Jenni Murray 2018 304 pages

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

Listen, Little Man!

by Wilhelm Reich • 1946

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

Listen, Little Man!

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

by Wilhelm Reich 1946 144 pages

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

Founding Brothers

by Joseph J. Ellis • 2000

The American founding hung on private dinners, personal feuds, a duel, and one last letter.

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Founding Fathers 🤝 Political Compromise ⚔️ Political Rivalries 🔗 Slavery And The Founding

Founding Brothers

The American founding hung on private dinners, personal feuds, a duel, and one last letter.

by Joseph J. Ellis 2000 288 pages

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Founding Fathers 🤝 Political Compromise ⚔️ Political Rivalries 🔗 Slavery And The Founding

Iran Between Two Revolutions

by Ervand Abrahamian • 1982

Iran's two revolutions share the same roots: communal rivalries, foreign pressure, class conflict.

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🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🕌 Islamic Revolution 📜 Constitutionalism ✊ Anti-Imperialism 📊 Class Analysis

Iran Between Two Revolutions

Iran's two revolutions share the same roots: communal rivalries, foreign pressure, class conflict.

by Ervand Abrahamian 1982 561 pages

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🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🕌 Islamic Revolution 📜 Constitutionalism ✊ Anti-Imperialism 📊 Class Analysis

Theories of International Relations

by Andrew Linklater • 1996

Thirteen competing theories of global politics, and why a single lens is never enough.

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🧭 IR Theory ⚔️ Paradigm Debates 🧩 Theoretical Pluralism 🔍 Critical Theory ⚖️ Normative Theory

Theories of International Relations

Thirteen competing theories of global politics, and why a single lens is never enough.

by Andrew Linklater 1996 310 pages

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🧭 IR Theory ⚔️ Paradigm Debates 🧩 Theoretical Pluralism 🔍 Critical Theory ⚖️ Normative Theory

After Capitalism

by David Schweickart • 2002

After capitalism: a blueprint where workers run firms and the public steers investment.

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⚖️ Market Socialism 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🌱 Post-Capitalism 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🌹 Democratic Socialism

After Capitalism

After capitalism: a blueprint where workers run firms and the public steers investment.

by David Schweickart 2002 224 pages

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⚖️ Market Socialism 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🌱 Post-Capitalism 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🌹 Democratic Socialism

1971

by Anam Zakaria • 2019

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

1971

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

by Anam Zakaria 2019 402 pages

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

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

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

by Hannah Barnes 2023 455 pages

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

World on the Brink

by Dmitri Alperovitch • 2024

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

World on the Brink

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

by Dmitri Alperovitch 2024 400 pages

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

You Are What You Speak

by Robert Lane Greene • 2011

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

You Are What You Speak

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

by Robert Lane Greene 2011 320 pages

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

Unsettled

by Steven E. Koonin • 2021

The gap between climate science and climate headlines is wider than either side admits.

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🤔 Climate Skepticism 💻 Climate Models ❓ Uncertainty In Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 📊 Data Literacy

Unsettled

The gap between climate science and climate headlines is wider than either side admits.

by Steven E. Koonin 2021 320 pages

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🤔 Climate Skepticism 💻 Climate Models ❓ Uncertainty In Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 📊 Data Literacy

The Socratic Dialogues

by Plato • 2009

From cave shadows to the form of beauty: the conversations that built Western philosophy.

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🗣️ Socratic Method ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🏛️ Ancient Greek Thought 📐 Platonism 💡 Theory Of Forms

The Socratic Dialogues

From cave shadows to the form of beauty: the conversations that built Western philosophy.

by Plato 2009 227 pages

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🗣️ Socratic Method ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🏛️ Ancient Greek Thought 📐 Platonism 💡 Theory Of Forms

Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford • 2018

AI's builders say the real crisis isn't superintelligence but a labor market already fracturing.

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🧠 Deep Learning ⚖️ Ai Ethics 👷 Future Of Work 📉 Automation Economics 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration

Architects of Intelligence

AI's builders say the real crisis isn't superintelligence but a labor market already fracturing.

by Martin Ford 2018 554 pages

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500+ ratings

🧠 Deep Learning ⚖️ Ai Ethics 👷 Future Of Work 📉 Automation Economics 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration

Free the Children

by Craig Kielburger • 1998

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

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🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

Free the Children

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

by Craig Kielburger 1998

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🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

The People’s Republic of Walmart

by Leigh Phillips • 2019

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

The People’s Republic of Walmart

Big corporations already plan like socialist states. The final step is not computing but democracy.

by Leigh Phillips 2019 256 pages

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🧮 Economic Planning 🔴 Socialist Economics 🗳️ Democratic Planning ⚖️ Calculation Debate 🏗️ Post-Capitalism

Fat Chance

by Robert H. Lustig • 2012

Sugar isn't empty calories. It reprograms your hormones to store fat, leaving willpower outmatched.

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🍬 Sugar And Health ⚖️ Hormonal Obesity 🏭 Processed Food 🏢 Food Industry Critique 🫀 Metabolic Health

Fat Chance

Sugar isn't empty calories. It reprograms your hormones to store fat, leaving willpower outmatched.

by Robert H. Lustig 2012 336 pages

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🍬 Sugar And Health ⚖️ Hormonal Obesity 🏭 Processed Food 🏢 Food Industry Critique 🫀 Metabolic Health

Broken Code

by Jeff Horwitz • 2023

Instagram harmed teen mental health. Facebook buried proof; whistleblower documents forced it out.

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📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Big Tech Accountability 📣 Tech Whistleblowers 📈 Algorithmic Amplification 🛡️ Content Moderation

Broken Code

Instagram harmed teen mental health. Facebook buried proof; whistleblower documents forced it out.

by Jeff Horwitz 2023 528 pages

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500+ ratings

📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Big Tech Accountability 📣 Tech Whistleblowers 📈 Algorithmic Amplification 🛡️ Content Moderation

House of Cards

by William D. Cohan • 2009

A Wall Street titan on Wednesday, a two-dollar stock on Sunday: the unraveling of Bear Stearns.

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📆 2008 Financial Crisis 🥂 Wall Street Culture 🏦 Investment Banks 💥 Corporate Collapse 💧 Leverage And Liquidity

House of Cards

A Wall Street titan on Wednesday, a two-dollar stock on Sunday: the unraveling of Bear Stearns.

by William D. Cohan 2009 468 pages

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📆 2008 Financial Crisis 🥂 Wall Street Culture 🏦 Investment Banks 💥 Corporate Collapse 💧 Leverage And Liquidity

The Audacity of Hope

by Barack Obama • 2006

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

The Audacity of Hope

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

by Barack Obama 2006 320 pages

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

by Dipesh Chakrabarty • 2021

All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.

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🏞️ Anthropocene Theory ⏳ Deep Time ⚖️ Climate Justice 📜 Historiography 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

All our political concepts assume a stable planet. The Anthropocene reveals it never was.

by Dipesh Chakrabarty 2021 292 pages

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142 ratings

🏞️ Anthropocene Theory ⏳ Deep Time ⚖️ Climate Justice 📜 Historiography 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza • 2019

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Feminism for the 99%

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

by Cinzia Arruzza 2019 85 pages

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Palm Sunday

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

Palm Sunday

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

The Believing Brain

by Michael Shermer • 2011

Your beliefs came first. Every rational argument arrived afterward to defend them.

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🧠 Belief Formation 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories ⚖️ Moral Foundations 🗳️ Political Psychology

The Believing Brain

Your beliefs came first. Every rational argument arrived afterward to defend them.

by Michael Shermer 2011 400 pages

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🧠 Belief Formation 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories ⚖️ Moral Foundations 🗳️ Political Psychology

Command and Control

by Eric Schlosser • 2013

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

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🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster 🏛️ Organizational Failure ⚠️ Normal Accident Theory

Command and Control

One dropped socket in an Arkansas missile silo exposes seventy years of nuclear near-disasters.

by Eric Schlosser 2013 656 pages

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🧪 Nuclear History 🥶 Cold War Era 💥 Technological Disaster 🏛️ Organizational Failure ⚠️ Normal Accident Theory

Government Gangsters

by Kash Patel • 2023

Federal law enforcement has been captured by unelected officials wielding it as a political weapon.

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🏛️ Institutional Corruption 👁️ Surveillance State ⚖️ Politicized Justice 📰 Media Bias 🐘 Conservative Populism

Government Gangsters

Federal law enforcement has been captured by unelected officials wielding it as a political weapon.

by Kash Patel 2023 320 pages

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🏛️ Institutional Corruption 👁️ Surveillance State ⚖️ Politicized Justice 📰 Media Bias 🐘 Conservative Populism

How to Stop Fascism

by Paul Mason • 2021

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

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🏛️ History Of Fascism ⚡ Far-Right Ideology 🧠 Ideological Analysis 💻 Online Radicalization 🕸️ Conspiracy Theories

How to Stop Fascism

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

by Paul Mason 2021 320 pages

4.05

390 ratings

🏛️ History Of Fascism ⚡ Far-Right Ideology 🧠 Ideological Analysis 💻 Online Radicalization 🕸️ Conspiracy Theories

Day of the Oprichnik

by Vladimir Sorokin • 2006

A Tsar's enforcer in a walled Russia: one day of fire, prayer, and sanctioned killing.

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🏛️ Theocratic Dystopia 🎭 Satirical Dystopia 🤢 Grotesque Satire 🩸 Ritualized Violence 📅 Single-Day Narrative

Day of the Oprichnik

A Tsar's enforcer in a walled Russia: one day of fire, prayer, and sanctioned killing.

by Vladimir Sorokin 2006 191 pages

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🏛️ Theocratic Dystopia 🎭 Satirical Dystopia 🤢 Grotesque Satire 🩸 Ritualized Violence 📅 Single-Day Narrative

First Principles

by Thomas E. Ricks • 2020

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

First Principles

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

by Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 pages

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

Superclass

by David Rothkopf • 2008

About six thousand people actually run the world. They are not who you voted for.

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🌍 Global Elites 🌐 Transnational Power 💰 Wealth Inequality 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Globalization

Superclass

About six thousand people actually run the world. They are not who you voted for.

by David Rothkopf 2008 400 pages

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487 ratings

🌍 Global Elites 🌐 Transnational Power 💰 Wealth Inequality 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Globalization

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1973

A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.

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🔨 Soviet History 🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes 🔗 Prison Camp Memoirs ⛏️ Forced Labor ✊ Political Resistance

The Gulag Archipelago

A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages

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14k+ ratings

🔨 Soviet History 🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes 🔗 Prison Camp Memoirs ⛏️ Forced Labor ✊ Political Resistance

A History of the Jews

by Paul Johnson • 1987

They outlasted every empire that sought to destroy them. The four-thousand-year story of how.

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✡️ Jewish History 🏛️ Middle Eastern History 🏺 Ancient Israel ⛪ Religious History ☝️ History Of Monotheism

A History of the Jews

They outlasted every empire that sought to destroy them. The four-thousand-year story of how.

by Paul Johnson 1987 644 pages

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✡️ Jewish History 🏛️ Middle Eastern History 🏺 Ancient Israel ⛪ Religious History ☝️ History Of Monotheism

Mismeasuring Our Lives

by Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2009

GDP tracks factories, not welfare. A Nobel economist's blueprint for a better number.

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📊 Economic Measurement 📋 Social Indicators 😊 Happiness Economics ⚖️ Inequality Metrics 🌱 Sustainability Accounting

Mismeasuring Our Lives

GDP tracks factories, not welfare. A Nobel economist's blueprint for a better number.

by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2009 172 pages

3.74

338 ratings

📊 Economic Measurement 📋 Social Indicators 😊 Happiness Economics ⚖️ Inequality Metrics 🌱 Sustainability Accounting

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

by Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

by Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 pages

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

The End of Alchemy

by Mervyn A. King • 2016

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

The End of Alchemy

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

by Mervyn A. King 2016 464 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

The Future of the Professions

by Richard Susskind • 2015

The professions were built on a trade: exclusive knowledge for public trust. That trade is ending.

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💼 Professional Services 🔮 Future Of Work ⚡ Technology Disruption 🧠 Knowledge Economics 🤖 Automation

The Future of the Professions

The professions were built on a trade: exclusive knowledge for public trust. That trade is ending.

by Richard Susskind 2015 368 pages

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1k+ ratings

💼 Professional Services 🔮 Future Of Work ⚡ Technology Disruption 🧠 Knowledge Economics 🤖 Automation

There Was a Country

by Chinua Achebe • 2012

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

4.04

2k+

🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War 📖 African Memoirs 🚩 Ethnic Conflict

There Was a Country

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

by Chinua Achebe 2012 352 pages

4.04

2k+ ratings

🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War 📖 African Memoirs 🚩 Ethnic Conflict

The Age of Sustainable Development

by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2015

Growth, inclusion, and sustainability are the same project. Sacrifice one, and the others collapse.

4.21

500+

🌱 Sustainable Development 📊 Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌡️ Climate Economics 📜 Environmental Policy

The Age of Sustainable Development

Growth, inclusion, and sustainability are the same project. Sacrifice one, and the others collapse.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2015 544 pages

4.21

500+ ratings

🌱 Sustainable Development 📊 Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌡️ Climate Economics 📜 Environmental Policy

The Skin We're In

by Desmond Cole • 2020

A year of Black resistance that forced Canada to face the racism its politeness hides.

4.44

10k+

🏛️ Systemic Racism 🍁 Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 Black Canadian Experience 🚨 Police Violence ✊🏾 Black Activism

The Skin We're In

A year of Black resistance that forced Canada to face the racism its politeness hides.

by Desmond Cole 2020 250 pages

4.44

10k+ ratings

🏛️ Systemic Racism 🍁 Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 Black Canadian Experience 🚨 Police Violence ✊🏾 Black Activism

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