7 Top sociology books like Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse

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Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal

By: Ben Sasse

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent …

"Yet despite the complexity of contemporary society, there are still some simple formulas we can use to distill the path to social and economic flourishing. One of these, labeled the “Success Sequence,"

-Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal

"Yet despite the complexity of contemporary society, there are still some simple formulas we can use to distill the path to social and economic flourishing. One of these, labeled the “Success Sequence,"

-Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal

If you liked the sociology plot in Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

By: Jonathan Rauch

4.45

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is that we kill our hypotheses rather than each other ."

-Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

"A very dangerous principle is now being established as a social right: Thou shalt not hurt others with words."

-Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

"[No] social principle in the world is more foolish and dangerous than the rapidly rising notion that hurtful words and ideas are a form of violence or torture (e.g., “harassment"

-Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

"Impelled by the notions that science is oppression and criticism is violence, the central regulation of debate and inquiry is returning to respectability—this time in a humanitarian disguise."

-Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

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2. Who Am I? Identity in Christ

By: Jerry Bridges

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In Who am I? Jerry Bridges unpacks Scripture to give Christians eight clear, interlocking, illumina… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime

By: Mark Frost

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

By: None

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Just as Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates at Indiana Federal Prison, was trying to br… read more

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5. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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6. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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8. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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11. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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  • cultural
  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

Cover of Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship by Justin Whitmel Earley

12. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World by William Inboden

13. The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World

By: William Inboden

4.50

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • leadership
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  • audiobook
"Fortunately, Marhsall found an eager audience in fellow intellectual Ikle, who recognized at once that ONA's analysis and prescriptions for the Cold War reinforced Reagan's intuitions. Together Ikle …"

-William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World

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14. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

By: Andrew Yang

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asi… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

By: Tom Papa

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Comedian and “Live from Here” head writer Tom Papa, author of Your Dad Stole My Rake, tackles the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Try and be strong. Try and be better. Try to enjoy."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"Social media is like a photo album with all the bad parts taken out."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"Life isn’t easy. It’s actually extremely difficult, with only one guaranteed ending. But you should refuse to waste it, if not for yourself, then for everyone around you."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"We're all somewhat unpleasant--which is another way of saying disgusting--and we're all flawed. All of us. That's what love is. Finding someone whose flaws you can put up with."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

Cover of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg

18. Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

By: Jonah Goldberg

4.05

Format: None pages, Audio CD

With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, two-time… read more

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  • history
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  • sociology
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"Humanity has been taking off like a rocket since the 1700s, but we have not achieved a stable orbit in the heavens. And even if we did, no orbit is stable in the long run. Eventually gravity claims w…"

-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

"Yes, of course enormous profits were made from both slavery and empire, but neither "created" capitalism... if capitalism is dependent on the sort of mass-scale exploitation implicit in slavery and i…"

-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

"Anyone who has relied on church or family during a personal storm understands how rooted institutions provide us not only physical shelter but, even more important, emotional, psychological, or spiri…"

-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

"The Constitution is a paper manifestation of a deeper cultural commitment to liberty and limited government, in the same way a marriage certificate is a physical and legalistic representation of some…"

-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

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19. The Religion of American Greatness

By: Paul D. Miller

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had s… read more

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  • history
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"Justice requires neutrality, at some level."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"At no point has America’s culture been defined by its concern to “preserve"

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"Nationalism is incoherent in theory, illiberal in practice, and, I fear, often idolatrous in our hearts."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"The Bible is universal truth, but our interpretations of it are always historically and culturally conditioned."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

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20. Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal

By: Ben Sasse

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent … read more

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"Yet despite the complexity of contemporary society, there are still some simple formulas we can use to distill the path to social and economic flourishing. One of these, labeled the “Success Sequence,"

-Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal

Cover of When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman

21. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

By: Alice Hoffman

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most… read more

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4.36

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3.74

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4.30

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