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 Great Acceleration
How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Technology
Society
Psychology
Bloody Nasty People
The Rise of Britain's Far Right
Politics
History
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Technology
Politics
Economics
Renegade
Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
Politics
Memoir
History
Shopping for Bombs
Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network
Politics
History
Asia
The Imagineers of War
The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
History
Science
War
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Africa
History
Travel
Culture and Resistance
Conversations with Edward W. Said
History
Politics
Cultural
Is There Anything Good About Men?
How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men
Psychology
Gender
Sociology
Order out of Chaos
Win Every Negotiation, Thrive in Adversity, and Become a World-Class Communicator
Psychology
Self Help
Business
The People's Hospital
Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Medicine
Medical
Health
Edmund Burke
A Genius Reconsidered
Biography
History
Politics
Imperial Hubris
Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
Politics
History
Terrorism
The Dark Enlightenment
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Red Nation Rising
From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
History
Indigenous
Politics
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care
A Citizen's Guide
Politics
The Collapse of Complex Societies
History
Politics
Anthropology
We Do This 'til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Politics
Social Justice
Race
Beyond Money
A Postcapitalist Strategy
Economics
Politics
Gaslighting America
Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us
Politics
Presidents
Psychology
These Truths
A History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
Economics
History
Finance
A Class of Their Own
Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Biography
Politics
Memoir
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
How to Reform Capitalism
Economics
Philosophy
Money
Except for Palestine
The Limits of Progressive Politics
Politics
History
Social Justice
Days of Rage
America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
History
Politics
American History
The Message
Politics
Essays
History
Demopolis
Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Politics
Philosophy
History
Disaster Nationalism
The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Politics
History
Economics
Palestine
Peace Not Apartheid
Politics
History
Middle East
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
History
Essays
Race
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
The International Jew
The World's Foremost Problem
Politics
History
Small Boat
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
France
The Shortest History of Economics
Economics
History
Business
The Infernal Machine
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
History
True Crime
Crime
Fight for Liberty
Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump
Politics
History
Intellectuals
From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
History
Philosophy
Biography
Buckley
The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Biography
Politics
History
A Patriot's History of the United States
From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
History
American History
Politics
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
An American Sickness
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Health Care
Health
Medicine
Free Speech
A History from Socrates to Social Media
History
Politics
Philosophy
Ultrasociety
How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Bloodlines of the Illuminati
Conspiracy Theories
History
Occult
The Palestinian Delusion
The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
History
Politics
Israel
Numbers Don't Lie
71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Science
History
Economics
The Triumph of Doubt
Dark Money and the Science of Deception
Science
Politics
History
A Concise History of the Middle East
History
Middle East
Politics
