Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
By: Martin Gilens
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poor Can a country be a democ…
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1. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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3. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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4. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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6. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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7. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
By: Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at th… read more
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8. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
9. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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10. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
11. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
By: Carol Leonnig
4.24
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more
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12. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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- history
13. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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14. 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
By: Garett Jones
3.61
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were… read more
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15. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
By: Jonathan M. Katz
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more
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16. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
17. 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
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"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
18. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
By: Naomi Oreskes
4.42
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more
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19. 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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- history
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- sociology
"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
20. Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
By: Jacob Mchangama
4.17
Format: 528 pages, Audiobook
A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today Hailed as the “first freedom,” fr… read more
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"Lost in the incessant focus on the darker sides of free speech—real, perceived, and exaggerated—are the profound benefits of free and open discourse, from the toppling of absolutist rulers to the cro…"-Jacob Mchangama, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
21. The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
By: Andrew Doyle
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with relig… read more
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"Where the New Left promoted the politics of unity, today’s intersectional reactionaries promote the politics of division."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Theres no harm un recognizing the more vindictive side of human nature, so long as we do not allow our reason to be dominated by our passion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Just as the symbol of Christ's crucifix encapsulates the triumph of the victim and has been exploited historically as a means to exert power over others, the rainbow Pride flag now serves a similar f…"-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
22. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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- american
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
23. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
By: Helen Thompson
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western… read more
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24. 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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25. How Democracy Ends
By: David Runciman
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the pas… read more
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26. How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery
By: Bryan Caplan
3.71
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and New York Times Bestselling aut… read more
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- economics
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27. Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice
By: Bryan Caplan
3.96
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and New York Times Bestselling aut… read more
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28. Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
By: Martin Gilens
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poor Can a country be a democ… read more
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- research
- academic
- nonfiction
- political science
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29. The Case for Colonialism
By: Bruce Gilley
4.40
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name." So began Professor Bruce Gille… read more
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