The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It
By: John Agresto
3.67
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Amer…
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.18
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists o… read more
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"He didn’t believe that, surely."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
"A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
"Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
3. In Defense of a Liberal Education
By: Fareed Zakaria
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all ple… read more
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4. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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5. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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6. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
By: Eric Metaxas
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more
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7. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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8. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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9. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now a… read more
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10. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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14. 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
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"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
15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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16. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
17. Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence
By: Vivek Ramaswamy
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American… read more
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18. The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.27
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, h… read more
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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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"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
20. Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
By: Brad Wilcox
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox explains how our ruling class publicly disparages ma… read more
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21. The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It
By: John Agresto
3.67
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of them. Amer… read more
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