9 best-selling philosophy books like The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL) by Verlan Lewis

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The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)

By: Verlan Lewis

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A…

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1. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. Economical Writing

By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

A valuable short guide for mastering the craft of academic writing! Students and young professional… read more

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3. Exile and the Kingdom

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

3.46

Format: 32 pages,

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more

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4. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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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

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"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

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • society
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7. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • audiobook
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8. 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

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9. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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11. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

By: Jonathan Rauch

4.25

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts Disinformation. Trolling. Conspir… read more

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"Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent."

-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

"If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social n…"

-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

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12. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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14. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)

By: Verlan Lewis

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • society
  • audiobook
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15. 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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"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

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16. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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17. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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18. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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19. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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20. Science Fictions

By: Stuart Ritchie

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more

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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"

-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions

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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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"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.

17 Best audiobook books like The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL) by Verlan Lewis

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

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

Yascha Mounk

4.08

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Brian Klaas

4.13

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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