Recommended Reading
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuvall Noah Harari
A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum
Anam Cara by John O’Donohue
Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra
Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism by Victoria Clark
America: Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy by Irvine H. Anderson
Blueprint by Nichloas Christakis
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Pikkety
Coming Apart by Charles Murray
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Gary Scott Smith
Falter; Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
God Save Texas: a Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills
Healing American Democracy: Going Local by Mike Hais, Doug Ross, and Morley Winograd
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
How Change Happens by Cass Sunstein
How to be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Last Best Hope by George Packer
Living Untethered by Michael Singer
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts
Our Towns: a 100,000-mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 by Walter McDougall
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
Smart World by Richard Ogle
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr
Sonic Boom by Gregg Easterbrook
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet by Joan Halifax
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston
Taming American Power by Stephen M. Walt
The Age of Abundance by Brink Lindsey
The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance by Michael H. Hunt
The Art of Solitude by Stephen Batchelor
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
The Economic Naturalist by Robert H. Frank
The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by Stephen Flynn
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
The Family by Jeff Sharlet
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich
The New Localism by Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak
The Paradox of American Power by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
The Power of Now by Eckhardt Tolle
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund S. Morris
The Social Animal by David Brooks
The Soul of America: the Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith
The Third Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
The Unwinding: An Inner History of America by George Packer
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron