9 Top political science books like Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen

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Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.68

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin…

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1. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

By: James Burnham

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Suicide of the An essay on the meaning and destiny of liberalism read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature o…"

-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

"...we may assert that liberalism believes man's nature to be not fixed but changing, with an unlimited or at any rate indefinitely large potential for positive (good, favorable, progressive) developm…"

-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

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2. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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3. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

Similar categories in G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. After Virtue

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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5. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • nonfiction
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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6. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

Similar categories in Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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7. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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8. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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9. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

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10. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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11. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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12. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

By: Christopher F. Rufo

4.30

Format: 352 pages, ebook

For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more

Similar categories in Christopher F. Rufo's America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

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13. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right

By: Matthew Rose

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial mo… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Rose's A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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14. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By: Louise Perry

4.28

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

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15. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

Similar categories in Peter Turchin's End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

By: Timothy P. Carney

4.09

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the sa… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.68

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin… read more

Similar categories in Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • cultural
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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18. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

By: Richard Hanania

3.87

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in th… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty ― and What to Do About It

By: Sohrab Ahmari

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that le… read more

Similar categories in Sohrab Ahmari's Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty ― and What to Do About It book and Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite

By: Michael Lind

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thro… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

15 must-read history books like Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen

Transform Your Habits

Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

James Burnham

4.05

Transform Your Habits

After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

Carl R. Trueman

4.57

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14 must-read history books like The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite by Michael Lind

Transform Your Habits

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

Sheelah Kolhatkar

4.00

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

Richard Hofstadter

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

James Burnham

4.31

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