Best Politics Books | Summaries & Audio

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After the Music Stopped

by Alan S. Blinder • 2013

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

After the Music Stopped

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

by Alan S. Blinder 2013 496 pages

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

Slanted

by Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

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

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📰 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

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

Has the West Lost It?

by Kishore Mahbubani • 2018

China and India ran the global economy for 1,800 years. The West's brief interruption is ending.

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🌍 Global Power Shifts 🇨🇳 China's Rise ♟️ Realpolitik 🕊️ Non-Interventionism 🏛️ Multilateralism

Has the West Lost It?

China and India ran the global economy for 1,800 years. The West's brief interruption is ending.

by Kishore Mahbubani 2018 112 pages

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🌍 Global Power Shifts 🇨🇳 China's Rise ♟️ Realpolitik 🕊️ Non-Interventionism 🏛️ Multilateralism

Crouching Tiger

by Peter Navarro • 2015

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

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🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

Crouching Tiger

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

by Peter Navarro 2015 336 pages

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219 ratings

🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

Adrift

by Scott Galloway • 2022

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Adrift

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

by Scott Galloway 2022 320 pages

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Billion-Dollar Ball

by Gilbert M. Gaul • 2015

College football is a multi-billion dollar industry. The IRS calls it a charity.

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🏈 College Football 💰 Sports Business 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📋 College Sports Reform 🏛️ Nonprofit Accountability

Billion-Dollar Ball

College football is a multi-billion dollar industry. The IRS calls it a charity.

by Gilbert M. Gaul 2015 264 pages

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🏈 College Football 💰 Sports Business 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📋 College Sports Reform 🏛️ Nonprofit Accountability

The Enlightenment

by John Robertson • 2015

It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 📜 Enlightenment Studies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📈 Idea Of Progress

The Enlightenment

It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.

by John Robertson 2015 147 pages

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 📜 Enlightenment Studies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📈 Idea Of Progress

Rethinking Sex

by Christine Emba • 2022

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

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🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Rethinking Sex

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

by Christine Emba 2022 256 pages

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🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Managerial Leadership for Librarians

by G. Edward Evans • 2017

The library manager's playbook: public budgets, volunteer boards, and the scrutiny that never quits.

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📚 Library Management 🤝 Nonprofit Management 🎯 Strategic Planning 📋 Board Governance ⚖️ Ethical Leadership

Managerial Leadership for Librarians

The library manager's playbook: public budgets, volunteer boards, and the scrutiny that never quits.

by G. Edward Evans 2017 400 pages

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📚 Library Management 🤝 Nonprofit Management 🎯 Strategic Planning 📋 Board Governance ⚖️ Ethical Leadership

Eichmann in My Hands

by Peter Z. Malkin • 1990

One sentence to stop the architect of the Holocaust on a dark street in Buenos Aires.

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🕶️ Spy Memoirs 🎯 Nazi Hunting 🕵️ Mossad Operations 🥸 Undercover Operations 💔 Moral Injury

Eichmann in My Hands

One sentence to stop the architect of the Holocaust on a dark street in Buenos Aires.

by Peter Z. Malkin 1990 267 pages

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500+ ratings

🕶️ Spy Memoirs 🎯 Nazi Hunting 🕵️ Mossad Operations 🥸 Undercover Operations 💔 Moral Injury

The First Family Detail

by Ronald Kessler • 2014

Cruelty, affairs, nuclear lapses: what Secret Service agents witnessed inside the White House.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🛡️ Secret Service 📰 Political Exposé 👁️ Insider Accounts ⚠️ Institutional Failure

The First Family Detail

Cruelty, affairs, nuclear lapses: what Secret Service agents witnessed inside the White House.

by Ronald Kessler 2014 272 pages

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🏛️ Presidential History 🛡️ Secret Service 📰 Political Exposé 👁️ Insider Accounts ⚠️ Institutional Failure

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

by Jeff Jarvis • 2023

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

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📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

by Jeff Jarvis 2023 328 pages

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218 ratings

📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

A Pelican Introduction

by Mike Savage • 2015

Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.

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🏛️ Class Analysis 🇬🇧 British Society 🎭 Cultural Capital 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Social Mobility

A Pelican Introduction

Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.

by Mike Savage 2015 462 pages

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🏛️ Class Analysis 🇬🇧 British Society 🎭 Cultural Capital 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Social Mobility

Teach Your Own

by John C. Holt • 1981

Schools have become a prison for the mind; the case for breaking out and teaching your own.

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🏡 Homeschooling 🌿 Unschooling 👪 Parental Rights ⚖️ Compulsory Schooling 🧒 Child-Led Learning

Teach Your Own

Schools have become a prison for the mind; the case for breaking out and teaching your own.

by John C. Holt 1981 352 pages

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🏡 Homeschooling 🌿 Unschooling 👪 Parental Rights ⚖️ Compulsory Schooling 🧒 Child-Led Learning

Unshrinking

by Kate Manne • 2024

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

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🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

Unshrinking

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

by Kate Manne 2024 320 pages

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🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?

by Yong Zhao • 2014

China's schools ace tests and kill creativity. Western reformers now race to import the same trade.

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📚 Education Systems 📝 Standardized Testing 🌍 Comparative Education 📜 Confucian Education 💡 Creativity Deficit

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?

China's schools ace tests and kill creativity. Western reformers now race to import the same trade.

by Yong Zhao 2014 272 pages

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📚 Education Systems 📝 Standardized Testing 🌍 Comparative Education 📜 Confucian Education 💡 Creativity Deficit

The Underground Girls of Kabul

by Jenny Nordberg • 2014

Afghan families disguise daughters as sons for survival and status, but puberty calls a halt.

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🇦🇫 Afghanistan Culture 👦 Son Preference 🚫 Gender Nonconformity 🎭 Gender As Performance 🤫 Quiet Resistance

The Underground Girls of Kabul

Afghan families disguise daughters as sons for survival and status, but puberty calls a halt.

by Jenny Nordberg 2014 350 pages

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🇦🇫 Afghanistan Culture 👦 Son Preference 🚫 Gender Nonconformity 🎭 Gender As Performance 🤫 Quiet Resistance

Capitalist Punishment

by Vivek Ramaswamy • 2023

Your retirement money is voting on climate mandates and social policy. You were never asked.

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📋 Esg Investing 📊 Corporate Governance 🏦 Wall Street Critique ⚠️ Woke Capitalism 🏛️ Market Concentration

Capitalist Punishment

Your retirement money is voting on climate mandates and social policy. You were never asked.

by Vivek Ramaswamy 2023 240 pages

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📋 Esg Investing 📊 Corporate Governance 🏦 Wall Street Critique ⚠️ Woke Capitalism 🏛️ Market Concentration

One Person, No Vote

by Carol Anderson • 2018

Voter suppression survived the Voting Rights Act: quieter, more surgical, and decisive in 2016.

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🗳️ Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🧱 Structural Racism ⚖️ Civil Rights Law 📜 Election Law

One Person, No Vote

Voter suppression survived the Voting Rights Act: quieter, more surgical, and decisive in 2016.

by Carol Anderson 2018 288 pages

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🗳️ Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🧱 Structural Racism ⚖️ Civil Rights Law 📜 Election Law

The Third Wave

by Steve Case • 2016

The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.

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📱 Digital Transformation 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Corporate Partnerships ⚖️ Regulatory Strategy 💚 Impact Investing

The Third Wave

The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.

by Steve Case 2016 240 pages

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📱 Digital Transformation 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Corporate Partnerships ⚖️ Regulatory Strategy 💚 Impact Investing

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel • 2009

To give Henry VIII a new queen, a blacksmith's son must break England away from Rome.

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🔱 Tudor Court 🗡️ Political Intrigue ⛪ Religious Reformation 🌫️ Atmospheric Historical 🖤 Morally Complex Hero

Wolf Hall

To give Henry VIII a new queen, a blacksmith's son must break England away from Rome.

by Hilary Mantel 2009 653 pages

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🔱 Tudor Court 🗡️ Political Intrigue ⛪ Religious Reformation 🌫️ Atmospheric Historical 🖤 Morally Complex Hero

Political Philosophy

by Adam Swift • 2001

Democracy's trick: we accept losing because the game was fair, even if the result is wrong.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💬 Deliberative Democracy ⚖️ Political Equality 📊 Majority Rule

Political Philosophy

Democracy's trick: we accept losing because the game was fair, even if the result is wrong.

by Adam Swift 2001 288 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💬 Deliberative Democracy ⚖️ Political Equality 📊 Majority Rule

The Wal-Mart Effect

by Charles Fishman • 2006

200,000 gallons of pickles a week: the hidden cost behind the lowest sticker price.

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🏬 Big-Box Retail 🔗 Supply Chain 💼 Corporate Power 🛒 Consumer Ethics 👷 Labor Exploitation

The Wal-Mart Effect

200,000 gallons of pickles a week: the hidden cost behind the lowest sticker price.

by Charles Fishman 2006 314 pages

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🏬 Big-Box Retail 🔗 Supply Chain 💼 Corporate Power 🛒 Consumer Ethics 👷 Labor Exploitation

If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

by John Pavlovitz • 2021

Lose the tribalism, keep the Jesus. A pastor's roadmap back from a faith that makes you cruel.

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🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🧱 Faith Deconstruction 🌍 Inclusive Theology ✊ Spiritual Activism ☣️ Toxic Religion

If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

Lose the tribalism, keep the Jesus. A pastor's roadmap back from a faith that makes you cruel.

by John Pavlovitz 2021 238 pages

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🕊️ Progressive Christianity 🧱 Faith Deconstruction 🌍 Inclusive Theology ✊ Spiritual Activism ☣️ Toxic Religion

The Great Wall

by Julia Lovell • 1981

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

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🏯 Imperial China 🇨🇳 Sinocentrism 📖 Revisionist History 🏰 Fortress Mentality 🗺️ Symbolic Landscapes

The Great Wall

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

by Julia Lovell 1981 432 pages

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🏯 Imperial China 🇨🇳 Sinocentrism 📖 Revisionist History 🏰 Fortress Mentality 🗺️ Symbolic Landscapes

Democracy and Social Ethics

by Jane Addams • 1902

Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.

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🕰️ Progressive Era 💡 American Pragmatism ⚖️ Social Ethics 🤝 Cross-Class Empathy 🎗️ Philanthropy Reform

Democracy and Social Ethics

Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.

by Jane Addams 1902 88 pages

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🕰️ Progressive Era 💡 American Pragmatism ⚖️ Social Ethics 🤝 Cross-Class Empathy 🎗️ Philanthropy Reform

Hatred of Democracy

by Jacques Rancière • 2005

Democracy is not about elections. It is the scandal that no one is born to rule.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💰 Oligarchy Critique 👥 Popular Sovereignty 🎭 Representation Critique

Hatred of Democracy

Democracy is not about elections. It is the scandal that no one is born to rule.

by Jacques Rancière 2005 106 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💰 Oligarchy Critique 👥 Popular Sovereignty 🎭 Representation Critique

Step Across This Line

by Salman Rushdie • 2002

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

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✍️ Literary Essays 🗣️ Free Speech Defense 🌐 Cultural Hybridity 🪪 Postcolonial Identity ⚠️ Religious Intolerance

Step Across This Line

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

by Salman Rushdie 2002 317 pages

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✍️ Literary Essays 🗣️ Free Speech Defense 🌐 Cultural Hybridity 🪪 Postcolonial Identity ⚠️ Religious Intolerance

Let Me Speak

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara • 1978

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

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🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Let Me Speak

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1978 236 pages

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🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Never Give an Inch

by Mike Pompeo • 2022

Refusing to pay, apologize, or sign weak agreements: inside Trump’s nationalist foreign policy.

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🇺🇸 America First 🇨🇳 Us China Rivalry 🏛️ Cabinet Memoirs ✝️ Faith And Diplomacy 🛡️ Deterrence Strategy

Never Give an Inch

Refusing to pay, apologize, or sign weak agreements: inside Trump’s nationalist foreign policy.

by Mike Pompeo 2022 434 pages

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🇺🇸 America First 🇨🇳 Us China Rivalry 🏛️ Cabinet Memoirs ✝️ Faith And Diplomacy 🛡️ Deterrence Strategy

The Yellow Pad

by Robert E. Rubin • 2023

A yellow pad and honest odds: the method that steered Goldman Sachs and the White House.

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📊 Decision Frameworks ⚠️ Risk Management 🎲 Thinking In Probabilities 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🚨 Crisis Leadership

The Yellow Pad

A yellow pad and honest odds: the method that steered Goldman Sachs and the White House.

by Robert E. Rubin 2023 336 pages

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📊 Decision Frameworks ⚠️ Risk Management 🎲 Thinking In Probabilities 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🚨 Crisis Leadership

A New Foreign Policy

by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2018

The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.

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🦅 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Us Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolarity ☮️ Anti-Interventionism 🎯 Regime Change

A New Foreign Policy

The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2018 274 pages

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337 ratings

🦅 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Us Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolarity ☮️ Anti-Interventionism 🎯 Regime Change

A Planet to Win

by Kate Aronoff • 2019

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A Planet to Win

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

by Kate Aronoff 2019 208 pages

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500+ ratings

📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

Silent Coup

by Claire Provost • 2023

Companies sue nations in secret tribunals, run private cities, command armies. Voters never agreed.

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🏛️ Corporate Capture ⚖️ Trade Tribunals 🛡️ Privatized Security 🌍 Development Critique 🏴 Colonial Legacies

Silent Coup

Companies sue nations in secret tribunals, run private cities, command armies. Voters never agreed.

by Claire Provost 2023 296 pages

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277 ratings

🏛️ Corporate Capture ⚖️ Trade Tribunals 🛡️ Privatized Security 🌍 Development Critique 🏴 Colonial Legacies

The Aristocracy of Talent

by Adrian Wooldridge • 2021

How talent beat inheritance: the 2,500-year rise of meritocracy, and why it now faces revolt.

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🏆 Meritocracy 📈 Social Mobility 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Intelligence And Society 📝 Standardized Testing

The Aristocracy of Talent

How talent beat inheritance: the 2,500-year rise of meritocracy, and why it now faces revolt.

by Adrian Wooldridge 2021

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🏆 Meritocracy 📈 Social Mobility 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Intelligence And Society 📝 Standardized Testing

The Elements of Choice

by Eric J. Johnson • 2021

Your choices feel free. But someone arranged the options, and that arrangement is doing the work.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Decision Science 🪤 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Choice Design 🛒 Consumer Psychology

The Elements of Choice

Your choices feel free. But someone arranged the options, and that arrangement is doing the work.

by Eric J. Johnson 2021 400 pages

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500+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Decision Science 🪤 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Choice Design 🛒 Consumer Psychology

Manifesting Justice

by Valena E. Beety • 2022

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

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⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

Manifesting Justice

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

by Valena E. Beety 2022 402 pages

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126 ratings

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

Liberty and Tyranny

by Mark R. Levin • 2004

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

Liberty and Tyranny

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

by Mark R. Levin 2004 245 pages

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

Bad Company

by Megan Greenwell • 2025

Private equity buys hospitals, newspapers, and homes with debt that falls on everyone except them.

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🏢 Private Equity 📉 Economic Inequality ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Bad Company

Private equity buys hospitals, newspapers, and homes with debt that falls on everyone except them.

by Megan Greenwell 2025 294 pages

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5k+ ratings

🏢 Private Equity 📉 Economic Inequality ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

A Short History of the World

by Christopher Lascelles • 2011

Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.

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🗺️ World History 🌌 Big History 📚 Concise History 🔄 Civilization Cycles ⚔️ Empire And Conquest

A Short History of the World

Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.

by Christopher Lascelles 2011 241 pages

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🗺️ World History 🌌 Big History 📚 Concise History 🔄 Civilization Cycles ⚔️ Empire And Conquest

Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale C. Carson • 2007

A former cop's blunt rules for staying invisible to police and out of the permanent digital prison.

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🧑‍✈️ Police Encounters ⚖️ Legal Self-Defense ⛓️‍💥 Criminal Justice Reform 🌃 Street Survival 🔫 Firearm Ownership

Arrest-Proof Yourself

A former cop's blunt rules for staying invisible to police and out of the permanent digital prison.

by Dale C. Carson 2007 384 pages

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320 ratings

🧑‍✈️ Police Encounters ⚖️ Legal Self-Defense ⛓️‍💥 Criminal Justice Reform 🌃 Street Survival 🔫 Firearm Ownership

The Years That Matter Most

by Paul Tough • 2019

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

The Years That Matter Most

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

by Paul Tough 2019 400 pages

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

A Patriot's History of the United States

by Larry Schweikart • 2004

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

A Patriot's History of the United States

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

by Larry Schweikart 2004 932 pages

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

The Plus

by Greg Gutfeld • 2020

Cancel culture, mob thinking, and self-sabotage: one uncomfortable question takes on all three.

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🙃 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Cancel Culture 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🧍 Individualism 😏 Irreverent Self-Help

The Plus

Cancel culture, mob thinking, and self-sabotage: one uncomfortable question takes on all three.

by Greg Gutfeld 2020 222 pages

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🙃 Anti-Self-Help 🎯 Cancel Culture 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🧍 Individualism 😏 Irreverent Self-Help

7 Tipping Points That Saved the World

by Chris Stewart • 2011

Seven narrow escapes that saved the West. Remove any one, and democracy and Christianity vanish.

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🧮 Counterfactual History 🏛️ Western Civilization ⚔️ Pivotal Battles ✝️ Christian History 🙏 Providential History

7 Tipping Points That Saved the World

Seven narrow escapes that saved the West. Remove any one, and democracy and Christianity vanish.

by Chris Stewart 2011 320 pages

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🧮 Counterfactual History 🏛️ Western Civilization ⚔️ Pivotal Battles ✝️ Christian History 🙏 Providential History

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

by Rawls • 2007

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

by Rawls 2007 496 pages

4.15

289 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

On Confidence

by The School of Life • 2017

Sixteen words, two centuries: how the Commerce Clause built the American state and still divides it.

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⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court Cases 📜 American Legal History 🌐 Federalism 📦 Commerce Clause

On Confidence

Sixteen words, two centuries: how the Commerce Clause built the American state and still divides it.

by The School of Life 2017 60 pages

3.91

3k+ ratings

⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court Cases 📜 American Legal History 🌐 Federalism 📦 Commerce Clause

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

by Robert C. Allen • 2009

Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.

4.00

264

🕰️ Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution ⚙️ Technological Change ⛏️ Energy History 📊 Cliometrics

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.

by Robert C. Allen 2009 342 pages

4.00

264 ratings

🕰️ Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution ⚙️ Technological Change ⛏️ Energy History 📊 Cliometrics

A World Without Police

by Geo Maher • 2021

Police reform fails by design. The alternative is not fewer cops but stronger communities.

3.97

329

🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Systemic Racism 🏘️ Community Safety 🤝 Restorative Justice 🤲 Mutual Aid

A World Without Police

Police reform fails by design. The alternative is not fewer cops but stronger communities.

by Geo Maher 2021 288 pages

3.97

329 ratings

🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Systemic Racism 🏘️ Community Safety 🤝 Restorative Justice 🤲 Mutual Aid

The Merge

by Grace Walker • 2025

To save her mother, a skeptic fuses their minds. The clinic's healing is a slow vanishing.

3.69

7k+

📖 Literary Dystopia 🏥 Medical Dystopia 🧩 Memory Manipulation 🫥 Identity Erasure 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

The Merge

To save her mother, a skeptic fuses their minds. The clinic's healing is a slow vanishing.

by Grace Walker 2025 320 pages

3.69

7k+ ratings

📖 Literary Dystopia 🏥 Medical Dystopia 🧩 Memory Manipulation 🫥 Identity Erasure 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

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