The City: A Global History

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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay

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Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities

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One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism

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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward

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Digital Barbarism

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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

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Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

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Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

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The Glass Cage: Nicholas Carr in Conversation with Tim Wu

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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

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Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know

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The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

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How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix

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Public Opinion

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Democracy: A Guided Tour

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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

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Mankind in the Making (Unabridged)

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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

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Looking Backward

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The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard

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Democracy in America

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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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The Name of the Wind

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Parable of the Sower

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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The Overstory

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The Road

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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The Lonely Dad Conversations

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Kindred

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

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Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

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Radiolab: Mixtape: How The Cassette Changed The World

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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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The Hate U Give

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

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Radiolab: Journey Through The Human Body

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong: A Conversation with Steven Dick, Retired Chief Historian at NASA

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Thomas Heatherwick on Human-Centered Architecture

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Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Right" (Oxford UP, 2019): The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...

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41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us: We all know by now that Zoom causes fatigue, social media spreads misinformation and Google Maps is wiping out our sense of direction. We also know, of course, that Zoom allows us to cooperate across continents, that social media connects us to our families and Google Maps keeps us from being lost. A lot of technological criticism today is about weighing whether a technology is good or bad, or judging its various uses. But there’s an older tradition of criticism that asks a more fundamental and nuanced question: How do these technologies change the people who use them, both for good and for bad? And what do the people who use them — all of us, in other words — actually want? Do we even know? L.M. Sacasas explores these questions in his great newsletter, “The Convivial Society.” His work is marrying the theorists of the 20th century — Hannah Arendt, C.S. Lewis, Ivan Illich, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and more — to the techn

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Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015): What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the global north? In To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution (PM Press, 2015), Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt,

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Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" (Island Press, 2019): Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,

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David Gelernter on Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of Mind: David Gelernter talks with host Russ Roberts about consciousness and how our minds evolve through the course of the day and as we grow up. Other topics discussed include creativity, artificial intelligence, and the singularity.

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How Conservatism Lost The Plot And Privatized Virtue: On this episode of "The Federalist Radio," Yoram Hazony, an award-winning political theorist and chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book "Conservatism: A Rediscovery." You can...

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April 1, 2010 Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: "Authoritarian Hell, So Terribly Tragic, We've to Follow U.K., It is the Flagship" *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - April 1, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

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Milton Friedman on Money: Russ Roberts talks with Milton Friedman about his research and views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and what the future holds.

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The thematic genius of Iain M Banks: This episode of the Science Fiction podcast is re-published from an original video essay first published in September 2018. I spent years searching, after I first read the Culture novels of Iain M Banks, for other space opera novels that equalled them. And this is what I discovered. Nothing else in the space opera genre even comes close to the Culture. Nothing. Zip. Nada. As Theodore Sturgeon said, 90% of everything is crap. But as a young reader I wondered why, with all these books marketed as space opera, did none read like the Culture? The answer is – theme. Science fiction tends to obsess over concepts, but almost entirely ignore themes. Scifi is full of big ideas about the nature of reality or the physics of space travel. But scifi that deals with the basic themes of human life is a rare, rare thing. Banks was a genius at weaving high concept scifi stories together with great thematic depth. In this episode I look at the opening chapter of w

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Brendan O'Neill: A Heretic's Manifesto: My guest today is Brendan O'Neill of Spiked, whose new collection of essays, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable...

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The Paradox of Democracy

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Democracy: The God that Failed | The Song Series | Episode 2 (WiM087)

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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

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Gonzalo Lira: American Power Has Collapsed, It’s Pulling Down the Rest of the World With It: Gonzalo Lira discusses the collapse of American power and how Washington has decided to pull down the rest of the world instead of accepting a graceful decline. The Russians have the upper-hand in Ukraine and will win the war. The U.S.

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The New Political-Economy | Russell Napier, Edward Chancellor, & Helen Thompson: In Episode 318 of , Demetri Kofinas speaks with political and financial historians Edward Chancellor, Russell Napier, and Helen Thompson. All three have appeared individually on the podcast before and joined Demetri ahead of his latest Genius...

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J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020): An interview with J. Bradford DeLong

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The cathedral and the bazaar: Imagine you have two choices of how to build some…

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Can Free Speech Be Restored In The West?: On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Brendan O’Neill, the chief political writer for Spiked magazine, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the groupthink that has infected the Western world and why it's important to be...

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#174 - Lawrence Wright: The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: reflections on how they happened, and lessons learned and not learned: Lawrence Wright is the author of  which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and was named one of Time's top 100 books of all time.  In this episode, released just before the 20th anniversary of the September 11th...

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Martin Gurri on the Revolt of the Public: Martin Gurri talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with host Russ Roberts. He argues that a digital tsunami--increased information provided by the web--has destabilized authority and institutions. The amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally are discussed.

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Dennis Meadows: “Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In”: On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Systems Management and author, Dennis Meadows. Meadows revisits Limits to Growth 50 years after it was published.  Looking back, how does Meadows view the book? How much of the response to his...

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Amusing Ourselves to Death with Lance Strate

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God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim and His Ottoman Empire: Join us for a virtual conversation between Alan Mikhail and Adam Hochschild about Mikhail's new book, God's Shadow.

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Reading List | #2 - 'A Pattern Language': My second architectural book recommendation is 'A Pattern Language' by Christopher Alexander et al. Here I talk about how this book is useful to architects and architecture students and why you should read it.

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Bruno Maçães: China, Russia and the Future of Eurasia – #26

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Carol Roth: You Will Own Nothing!: Carol Roth is a self-described recovering investment banker and bestselling author whose new book is You Will Own Nothing: Your...

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Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1

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The Revolt of the Public with Martin Gurri: Today's guest is Martin Gurri (Twitter, blog), author of The Revolt of the Public. We discuss his book, which deals with the impact of information technology on political trends and populism. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling,...