The canon
Every work in the PoliReads canon: 726 curated books, from the classics to contemporary thought. Each links to a full page with a summary, the key passage, and the reading paths it belongs to.
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726 books
Classic · 182
- A Letter Concerning TolerationJohn LockeLiberalism / religious toleration
- A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human MindAnne Robert Jacques TurgotEnlightenment political economy
- A Vindication of the Rights of MenMary WollstonecraftRadical liberal critique of Burke
- A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary WollstonecraftEnlightenment feminism
- Addresses to the German NationJohann Gottlieb FichteNationalism / education
- Anarchical FallaciesJeremy BenthamUtilitarian critique of natural rights
- Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma GoldmanAnarcho-communist / feminist anarchism
- AnarchyErrico MalatestaAnarchism
- AnnalsTacitusRoman political history
- AntigoneSophoclesGreek tragedy / law and conscience
- ApologyPlatoClassical philosophy
- ArthashastraKautilya (Chanakya)Indian statecraft / political realism
- Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich NietzscheCritique of morality / modernity
- CandideVoltaireEnlightenment satire / anti-clericalism
- Capital, Volume IKarl MarxMarxism / critique of political economy
- City of GodAugustine of HippoChristian political theology
- Civil DisobedienceHenry David ThoreauIndividualism / civil resistance
- Common SenseThomas PaineRevolutionary republicanism
- Community and SocietyFerdinand TönniesFounding sociology
- Considerations on FranceJoseph de MaistreCounter-Enlightenment conservatism
- Considerations on Representative GovernmentJohn Stuart MillLiberal democracy / representation
- Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their DeclineMontesquieuPolitical history / republics and empire
- Critique of Practical ReasonImmanuel KantMoral philosophy / autonomy
- Critique of the Gotha ProgrammeKarl MarxMarxism / socialist strategy
- CritoPlatoAncient law and obligation
- Culture and AnarchyMatthew ArnoldLiberal conservatism / culture
- De OfficiisCiceroRoman republican moral philosophy
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female CitizenOlympe de GougesFrench revolutionary feminism
- Defender of the PeaceMarsilius of PaduaMedieval constitutionalism
- Democracy in AmericaAlexis de TocquevilleLiberal conservatism / democratic theory
- Discourse on the Origin of InequalityJean-Jacques RousseauSocial contract / critique of inequality
- DiscoursesEpictetusStoicism / moral philosophy
- Discourses and Selected WritingsEpictetusStoicism
- Discourses on LivyNiccolò MachiavelliRepublicanism
- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844Karl MarxMarxism / humanist socialism
- Edicts of AshokaAshokaBuddhist kingship / moral rule
- Either/OrSøren KierkegaardExistentialism / ethics
- Elements of the Philosophy of RightG. W. F. HegelGerman idealism / political philosophy
- EmileJean-Jacques RousseauEducation / civic formation
- Encyclopédie: Preliminary DiscourseDiderot and d'AlembertEnlightenment knowledge politics
- EthicsBaruch SpinozaRationalism / secular philosophy
- Evolutionary SocialismEduard BernsteinRevisionist socialism / social democracy
- Fear and TremblingSøren KierkegaardChristian existentialism
- God and the StateMikhail BakuninCollectivist anarchism
- GorgiasPlatoRhetoric / justice / power
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel KantDeontological moral philosophy
- Han FeiziHan FeiChinese Legalism
- History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydidesPolitical realism
- Ideas for an Attempt to Determine the Limits of the StateWilhelm von HumboldtClassical liberalism
- Imperialism, the Highest Stage of CapitalismV. I. LeninImperialism critique
- Instead of a BookBenjamin TuckerIndividualist anarchism
- Institutes of the Christian ReligionJohn CalvinReformed political theology
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and LegislationJeremy BenthamUtilitarianism / legal reform
- Letters from a StoicSenecaStoicism
- Letters on EnglandVoltaireComparative liberalism
- LeviathanThomas HobbesRealism / social contract theory
- LivesPlutarchClassical moral biography
- ManusmritiUnknownHindu law / social order
- MeditationsMarcus AureliusStoicism
- MenciusMencius (Mengzi)Confucianism
- MonarchiaDante AlighieriMedieval universal monarchy
- MoziMoziMohism / consequentialist political ethics
- Mutual AidPeter KropotkinAnarchism / cooperation
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionPeter KropotkinAnarcho-communist / evolutionary theory
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassAbolitionism / liberal freedom
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick DouglassAbolitionism
- NationalityLord ActonLiberal nationalism / classical liberalism
- News from NowhereWilliam MorrisSocialist utopianism
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotleVirtue ethics / classical political philosophy
- No TreasonLysander SpoonerIndividualist anarchism
- On DutiesCiceroRoman republicanism / natural law
- On LibertyJohn Stuart MillLiberalism
- On Liberty and Other EssaysJohn Stuart MillLiberalism / liberty
- On Secular AuthorityMartin LutherProtestant political theology
- On the CommonwealthCiceroRoman republicanism
- On the Duty of Man and CitizenSamuel PufendorfNatural law / obligation
- On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich NietzscheCritique of morality / anti-Christian thought
- On the Government of RulersThomas AquinasChristian political theology
- On the Jewish QuestionKarl MarxRights / emancipation / religion
- On the LawsCiceroNatural law / republicanism
- On the Nature of ThingsLucretiusEpicureanism / materialism
- On WarCarl von ClausewitzStrategic theory
- OresteiaAeschylusGreek tragedy / justice and law
- Our AmericaJosé MartíLatin American anti-imperial republicanism
- Past and PresentThomas CarlyleConservative social criticism
- PenséesBlaise PascalChristian existential reflection
- Perpetual PeaceImmanuel KantLiberal internationalism
- Philosophical DictionaryVoltaireEnlightenment criticism
- PoliticsAristotleClassical republican / virtue ethics
- Principles of Political EconomyJohn Stuart MillLiberal political economy
- Progress and PovertyHenry GeorgeGeorgism / land-value economics
- Rameau's NephewDenis DiderotEnlightenment social criticism
- Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of MankindJohann Gottfried HerderCultural nationalism / philosophy of history
- Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEdmund BurkeConservatism
- Reform or RevolutionRosa LuxemburgMarxism / revolutionary socialism
- Religion within the Bounds of Bare ReasonImmanuel KantReligion / moral reason
- RepublicPlatoAncient political philosophy
- Rerum NovarumPope Leo XIIICatholic social teaching
- RhetoricAristotleRhetoric / civic reasoning
- Rights of ManThomas PaineLiberal radicalism / republicanism
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn LockeLiberalism / natural rights
- Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human MindCondorcetEnlightenment progressivism
- Socialism: Utopian and ScientificFriedrich EngelsMarxism / socialism
- Statism and AnarchyMikhail BakuninAnarchism / socialism
- SuicideÉmile DurkheimSociology / modernity
- Summa TheologicaThomas AquinasNatural law / Christian political thought
- Sybil, or The Two NationsBenjamin DisraeliOne-nation Toryism / social novel
- Tao Te ChingLaozi (Lao Tzu)Daoism
- The Age of ReasonThomas PaineDeism / critique of revealed religion
- The AnalectsConfuciusConfucianism
- The Art of WarSun TzuStrategy / statecraft
- The Athenian ConstitutionAristotleAncient constitutional analysis
- The Bhagavad GitaVyasa (traditional)Hindu ethical and political thought
- The Birth of TragedyFriedrich NietzscheCulture / tragedy / modernity
- The Book of the City of LadiesChristine de PizanEarly feminist political literature
- The Brothers KaramazovFyodor DostoevskyChristian existential literature
- The Civil War in FranceKarl MarxMarxism / Paris Commune
- The Closed Commercial StateJohann Gottlieb FichteGerman idealism / economic nationalism
- The Commonwealth of OceanaJames HarringtonAtlantic / classical republicanism
- The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsSocialism / Marxism
- The Condition of the Working Class in EnglandFriedrich EngelsSocialism / industrial capitalism
- The Conquest of BreadPeter KropotkinAnarcho-communism
- The CrowdGustave Le BonMass psychology / crowd theory
- The Decisive TreatiseAverroes (Ibn Rushd)Islamic philosophy / rationalism
- The Division of Labor in SocietyÉmile DurkheimSociology / solidarity
- The Division of Labour in SocietyÉmile DurkheimFounding sociology
- The Duties of ManGiuseppe MazziniRomantic republican nationalism
- The Education of a Christian PrinceErasmusChristian humanism / political ethics
- The Ego and Its OwnMax StirnerIndividualist anarchism
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteKarl MarxMarxism / political analysis
- The Federalist PapersAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John JayConstitutionalism / republicanism
- The German IdeologyKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsHistorical materialism
- The Guide for the PerplexedMaimonidesJewish philosophy
- The HistoriesPolybiusClassical republicanism
- The Incoherence of the IncoherenceAverroesIslamic philosophy / reason
- The Incoherence of the PhilosophersAl-GhazaliIslamic theology / philosophy critique
- The Jewish StateTheodor HerzlZionism / nationalism
- The Jewish WarJosephusAncient political history
- The Kingdom of God Is Within YouLeo TolstoyChristian anarchism / nonviolence
- The LawFrédéric BastiatClassical liberalism / libertarianism
- The Law of War and PeaceHugo GrotiusNatural law / international law
- The LawsPlatoAncient political philosophy
- The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of ModernsBenjamin ConstantFrench liberalism
- The MuqaddimahIbn KhaldunHistorical sociology / state formation
- The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to HistoryIbn KhaldunIslamic political thought / philosophy of history
- The New ScienceGiambattista VicoHistorical philosophy / civic life
- The Peloponnesian WarThucydidesPolitical realism / history
- The Persian WarsHerodotusAncient political history
- The Philosophy of PovertyPierre-Joseph ProudhonMutualism / economic critique
- The Poverty of PhilosophyKarl MarxMarxist critique of Proudhon
- The Praise of FollyErasmusChristian humanism / satire
- The PrinceNiccolò MachiavelliPolitical realism
- The Rights of Man and of the CitizenFrench National AssemblyRevolutionary liberalism
- The Rights of War and PeaceHugo GrotiusNatural law / international law
- The Sermons of António VieiraAntónio VieiraPortuguese political theology / Lusophone universalism
- The Sickness Unto DeathSøren KierkegaardChristian existentialism
- The Six Books of the CommonwealthJean BodinSovereignty / early modern state
- The Social ContractJean-Jacques RousseauRepublicanism / democratic theory
- The Soul of Man Under SocialismOscar WildeAesthetic socialism / individualism
- The Spirit of the LawsMontesquieuLiberal constitutionalism
- The Stones of VeniceJohn RuskinSocial criticism / art and political economy
- The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor MillLiberal feminism
- The Subjection of Women: The Enfranchisement of WomenHarriet Taylor MillLiberal feminism
- The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam SmithMoral philosophy / political economy
- The Virtuous CityAl-FarabiIslamic political philosophy
- The Voltairine de Cleyre ReaderVoltairine de CleyreIndividualist / anarcha-feminism
- The Wealth of NationsAdam SmithClassical political economy
- Theological-Political TreatiseBaruch SpinozaEnlightenment liberalism
- Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich NietzschePhilosophical literature / value creation
- Treatise on LawThomas AquinasNatural law / Christian philosophy
- Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich NietzscheCritique of morality and culture
- Unto This LastJohn RuskinMoral political economy
- Up from SlaveryBooker T. WashingtonSelf-help / racial uplift
- UtilitarianismJohn Stuart MillUtilitarian liberalism
- UtopiaThomas MoreRenaissance humanism
- What Is a Nation?Ernest RenanNationalism
- What Is Enlightenment?Immanuel KantEnlightenment liberalism
- What Is Property?Pierre-Joseph ProudhonMutualist anarchism
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Frederick DouglassAbolitionism / republican critique
- Works and DaysHesiodAncient moral and social order
- XunziXunziConfucian realism / ritual order
- ZhuangziZhuangziDaoism / freedom and skepticism
Modern · 171
- A Humane EconomyWilhelm RöpkeOrdoliberalism / Christian market economics
- A Mathematician's ApologyG. H. HardyIntellectual life / anti-utilitarian culture
- A Sand County AlmanacAldo LeopoldEnvironmental ethics
- A Theory of JusticeJohn RawlsLiberal egalitarianism
- Anarcho-SyndicalismRudolf RockerAnarchism / revolutionary unionism
- Anarchy, State, and UtopiaRobert NozickLibertarianism
- Annihilation of CasteB. R. AmbedkarAnti-caste social justice
- Answer to JobCarl JungPsychology of religion
- Anti-Semite and JewJean-Paul SartreAnti-racism / political psychology
- Being and NothingnessJean-Paul SartreExistentialist philosophy
- Black Reconstruction in AmericaW. E. B. Du BoisBlack Marxist history
- Black Skin, White MasksFrantz FanonAnti-colonialism / psychoanalysis
- Brave New WorldAldous HuxleyDystopian fiction
- Capitalism and FreedomMilton FriedmanClassical liberalism / libertarian economics
- Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyJoseph A. SchumpeterLiberal political economy
- Changing LensesHoward ZehrRestorative justice
- Citizenship and Social ClassT. H. MarshallSociology of citizenship and welfare
- Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund FreudPsychoanalysis / civilization
- Conjectures and RefutationsKarl PopperCritical rationalism
- ConsciencismKwame NkrumahAfrican socialism / political philosophy
- Critique of Dialectical ReasonJean-Paul SartreMarxism / existentialism
- Democracy Ancient and ModernM. I. FinleyAncient vs modern democracy
- Democracy and EducationJohn DeweyPragmatism / democratic education
- Dialectic of EnlightenmentTheodor Adorno and Max HorkheimerFrankfurt School critical theory
- Discourse on ColonialismAimé CésaireAnti-colonial theory / Négritude
- Economics in One LessonHenry HazlittFree-market economics
- Economy and SocietyMax WeberFounding sociology
- Eichmann in JerusalemHannah ArendtTotalitarianism / judgment
- EqualityR. H. TawneyDemocratic / ethical socialism
- Eros and CivilizationHerbert MarcuseCritical theory / psychoanalysis
- Escape from FreedomErich FrommPsychoanalytic social theory
- Ethnonationalism: The Quest for UnderstandingWalker ConnorEthnonationalism scholarship
- Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul SartreExistentialism / freedom
- Exit, Voice, and LoyaltyAlbert O. HirschmanPolitical economy
- For a New LibertyMurray RothbardAnarcho-capitalism / libertarianism
- Gravity and GraceSimone WeilChristian mysticism / moral philosophy
- Guild Socialism RestatedG. D. H. ColeGuild socialism / industrial self-government
- Hind SwarajMahatma GandhiAnti-modernism / nonviolence
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleMohandas K. GandhiAnti-colonial nonviolence / critique of modernity
- Homage to CataloniaGeorge OrwellAnti-Stalinist democratic socialism
- Human ActionLudwig von MisesAustrian economics
- Human Action: A Treatise on EconomicsLudwig von MisesAustrian economics
- I and ThouMartin BuberJewish existentialism / dialogical philosophy
- Ideas Have ConsequencesRichard M. WeaverTraditionalist conservatism
- In a Different VoiceCarol GilliganCare ethics / moral psychology
- Individualism and Economic OrderFriedrich HayekClassical liberal economics
- Jesus and the DisinheritedHoward ThurmanBlack Christian political theology
- Letter from Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr.Civil rights liberalism
- LiberalismLudwig von MisesLibertarianism / classical liberalism
- Man's Search for MeaningViktor FranklExistential psychology / meaning
- Mere ChristianityC. S. LewisChristian apologetics
- Minima MoraliaTheodor AdornoCritical theory / moral fragments
- Moral BoundariesJoan TrontoPolitical ethic of care
- Moral Man and Immoral SocietyReinhold NiebuhrChristian realism
- NationalismRabindranath TagoreIndian humanism / anti-nationalism
- Natural Right and HistoryLeo StraussPolitical philosophy / natural right
- Neo-ColonialismKwame NkrumahAnti-colonial political economy
- Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge OrwellAnti-totalitarian fiction
- Notebook of a Return to the Native LandAimé CésaireAnti-colonial literature
- Notes Towards the Definition of CultureT. S. EliotCultural conservatism / nation and culture
- Nuestra América (Our America)José MartíLatin American anti-imperialism
- On RevolutionHannah ArendtRevolution / republican freedom
- On the Economic Theory of SocialismOskar LangeSocialist calculation / market socialism
- On ViolenceHannah ArendtViolence / power
- Origins and Doctrine of FascismGiovanni GentilePhilosophical fascism / Italian idealism
- Parliamentary SocialismRalph MilibandMarxist critique of labourism
- Participation and Democratic TheoryCarole PatemanParticipatory democratic theory
- Personal KnowledgeMichael PolanyiTacit knowledge / philosophy of science
- Political PartiesRobert MichelsElite theory / sociology
- Political TheologyCarl SchmittPolitical theology / sovereignty
- Politics Among NationsHans MorgenthauClassical realism / international relations
- Politics as a VocationMax WeberPolitical sociology / realism
- Post-Scarcity AnarchismMurray BookchinGreen / social-ecology anarchism
- Prison NotebooksAntonio GramsciWestern Marxism
- Public OpinionWalter LippmannLiberal democratic realism
- Punishment and ResponsibilityH. L. A. HartPhilosophy of punishment
- Quadragesimo AnnoPope Pius XICatholic social teaching
- Rationalism in PoliticsMichael OakeshottBritish conservatism
- Reflections on ViolenceGeorges SorelSyndicalism / revolutionary theory
- Return to the Source: Selected SpeechesAmílcar CabralAfrican liberation thought
- Selections from the Prison NotebooksAntonio GramsciWestern Marxism
- Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian RealityJosé Carlos MariáteguiLatin American Marxism
- Social Insurance and Allied ServicesWilliam BeveridgeWelfare-state policy design
- Strength to LoveMartin Luther King Jr.Christian civil rights ethics
- Strong DemocracyBenjamin BarberParticipatory / strong democracy
- Suicide of the WestJames BurnhamConservative anti-liberal critique
- Survival in AuschwitzPrimo LeviTotalitarianism / witness literature
- The Abolition of ManC. S. LewisChristian moral philosophy
- The Acquisitive SocietyR. H. TawneyEthical / associational socialism
- The Act of CreationArthur KoestlerCreativity / politics and science
- The Affluent SocietyJohn Kenneth GalbraithLiberal economics / social democracy
- The Ballot or the BulletMalcolm XBlack nationalism / civil rights
- The Black JacobinsC.L.R. JamesAnti-colonial Marxism / Black radical tradition
- The Calculus of ConsentJames Buchanan and Gordon TullockPublic choice / libertarian constitutionalism
- The Captive MindCzesław MiłoszAnti-totalitarian literature
- The Colonizer and the ColonizedAlbert MemmiAnti-colonial sociology / phenomenology
- The Concept of the PoliticalCarl SchmittPolitical theology / realism
- The Constitution of LibertyFriedrich HayekClassical liberalism
- The Cost of DiscipleshipDietrich BonhoefferProtestant resistance theology
- The Crisis of Parliamentary DemocracyCarl SchmittConservative constitutional theory
- The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal NehruNationalism / postcolonial statecraft
- The Doctrine of FascismBenito MussoliniFascist political theory
- The Economic Consequences of the PeaceJohn Maynard KeynesPolitical economy / international order
- The Elementary Forms of Religious LifeÉmile DurkheimSociology of religion
- The End of IdeologyDaniel BellLiberal sociology
- The Essence and Value of DemocracyHans KelsenLegal positivism / democracy
- The Ethics of AmbiguitySimone de BeauvoirExistentialist ethics
- The FountainheadAyn RandObjectivism / individualism
- The Future of an IllusionSigmund FreudPsychoanalysis / religion critique
- The Future of SocialismAnthony CroslandSocial democracy
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard KeynesKeynesian economics
- The GiftMarcel MaussAnthropology / reciprocity
- The Great TransformationKarl PolanyiSocial democracy / economic history
- The Human ConditionHannah ArendtPolitical philosophy / republicanism
- The Jamaica LetterSimón BolívarLatin American republicanism
- The Liberal ImaginationLionel TrillingLiberal culture criticism
- The Lonely CrowdDavid RiesmanSociology / mass society
- The Machiavellian MomentJ. G. A. PocockAtlantic republican intellectual history
- The MachiavelliansJames BurnhamElite theory / political realism
- The Managerial RevolutionJames BurnhamElite theory / political sociology
- The Middle WayHarold MacmillanOne-nation conservatism / political economy
- The Mind and SocietyVilfredo ParetoElite theory / sociology
- The Morality of LawLon L. FullerNatural law / legal philosophy
- The Myth of SisyphusAlbert CamusExistentialism / absurdity
- The Need for RootsSimone WeilChristian humanism / social philosophy
- The New Industrial StateJohn Kenneth GalbraithInstitutional economics
- The Open Society and Its EnemiesKarl PopperLiberal democracy
- The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume IKarl PopperLiberal anti-totalitarianism
- The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume IIKarl PopperAnti-totalitarian critique of Hegel and Marx
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich EngelsMarxism
- The Origins of Totalitarian DemocracyJacob TalmonLiberal critique of revolutionary democracy
- The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah ArendtAnti-totalitarian political theory
- The Phantom PublicWalter LippmannDemocratic realism
- The Politics of JesusJohn Howard YoderChristian (pacifist) anarchism
- The Poverty of HistoricismKarl PopperAnti-historicist social science
- The Power EliteC. Wright MillsCritical sociology
- The Principle of HopeErnst BlochMarxism / utopia
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismMax WeberSociology / political economy
- The Public and Its ProblemsJohn DeweyPragmatist democratic theory
- The Pure Theory of LawHans KelsenLegal positivism
- The Quest for CommunityRobert NisbetConservative sociology
- The RebelAlbert CamusRebellion / limits / violence
- The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in IslamMuhammad IqbalIslamic modernism
- The Revolt of the MassesJosé Ortega y GassetSpanish liberal conservatism / cultural criticism
- The Road to SerfdomFriedrich HayekClassical liberalism
- The Ruling ClassGaetano MoscaElite theory
- The Sane SocietyErich FrommHumanist socialism / psychology
- The Second SexSimone de BeauvoirFeminism / existentialism
- The Society of the SpectacleGuy DebordSituationism / capitalism critique
- The Sociological ImaginationC. Wright MillsCritical sociology
- The Souls of Black FolkW. E. B. Du BoisRace and political thought / civil rights
- The State and RevolutionVladimir LeninRevolutionary Marxism (Marxism-Leninism)
- The Story of My Experiments with TruthMahatma GandhiSpiritual politics / nonviolence
- The Tacit DimensionMichael PolanyiTacit knowledge
- The Technological SocietyJacques EllulModernity critique
- The Three Principles of the PeopleSun Yat-senChinese nationalism / republicanism
- The True BelieverEric HofferMass movements / political psychology
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass MovementsEric HofferSocial psychology of politics
- The Twenty Years' CrisisE. H. CarrInternational relations realism
- The Undiscovered SelfCarl JungPsychology / mass society
- The Use of Knowledge in SocietyFriedrich HayekClassical liberalism / economics
- The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam JamesPsychology of religion / pragmatism
- The Vital CenterArthur Schlesinger Jr.Liberal anti-totalitarianism
- The Worldly PhilosophersRobert L. HeilbronerHistory of economic thought
- The Wretched of the EarthFrantz FanonAnti-colonialism / revolutionary theory
- The Writings and Speeches of B. R. AmbedkarB. R. AmbedkarDemocratic constitutionalism / anti-caste politics
- Toward the African RevolutionFrantz FanonAnti-colonial politics
- Two Concepts of LibertyIsaiah BerlinLiberalism
- Unity and StruggleAmílcar CabralAnti-colonial nationalism
- We Hold These TruthsJohn Courtney MurrayReligion and politics / Catholic liberalism
- What Is Communist Anarchism?Alexander BerkmanAnarchism
Contemporary · 373
- #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social MediaCass R. SunsteinLiberal democratic theory
- 12 Rules for LifeJordan PetersonPsychology, religion, cultural criticism
- A Brief History of EqualityThomas PikettyInequality studies / participatory socialism
- A Conflict of VisionsThomas SowellConservative political analysis
- A People's History of the United StatesHoward ZinnLeft revisionist history
- A Secular AgeCharles TaylorPhilosophy of secular modernity
- A Theology of LiberationGustavo GutiérrezLiberation theology
- A Time to BuildYuval LevinInstitutional conservatism
- A Turn to EmpireJennifer PittsLiberal imperialism scholarship
- AbundanceEzra Klein and Derek ThompsonSupply-side liberalism
- After HegemonyRobert O. KeohaneLiberal institutionalism / international relations
- After VirtueAlasdair MacIntyreVirtue ethics / communitarian critique
- Against DemocracyJason BrennanAnalytic political philosophy / libertarianism
- Ain't I a Womanbell hooksBlack feminism
- Algorithms of OppressionSafiya Umoja NobleTechnology, race, and knowledge
- Amusing Ourselves to DeathNeil PostmanMedia ecology / cultural criticism
- An Essay on RightsHillel SteinerAnalytic libertarianism
- Are Prisons Obsolete?Angela DavisAbolitionism / critical justice
- Atlas ShruggedAyn RandObjectivism / libertarian fiction
- Autocracy, Inc.Anne ApplebaumLiberal democratic analysis
- Automating InequalityVirginia EubanksTechnology / welfare state
- Basic EconomicsThomas SowellMarket liberal / conservative economics
- Between Facts and NormsJürgen HabermasDeliberative democracy / law
- Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesBlack American letters
- Beyond OrderJordan PetersonPsychology / order and chaos
- Black Feminist ThoughtPatricia Hill CollinsBlack feminist theory
- Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical TraditionCedric J. RobinsonBlack radical thought
- Black Rednecks and White LiberalsThomas SowellConservative cultural analysis
- Bodies That MatterJudith ButlerQueer theory / embodiment
- Borderlands/La FronteraGloria AnzaldúaChicana feminism / border theory
- Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern WorldDeirdre N. McCloskeyClassical-liberal economic history
- Bowling AloneRobert D. PutnamSocial capital / democracy
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityRobert D. PutnamCivic-republican social science
- Bullshit JobsDavid GraeberWork / capitalism critique
- Bullshit Jobs: A TheoryDavid GraeberAnarchist anthropology
- Caliban and the WitchSilvia FedericiMarxist feminism
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive AccumulationSilvia FedericiMarxist feminism
- Can the Subaltern Speak?Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakPostcolonial theory
- Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas PikettyEgalitarian political economy
- Capitalism and Social DemocracyAdam PrzeworskiSocial democracy
- Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the WorldBranko MilanovićComparative political economy
- Capitalism: The Unknown IdealAyn RandObjectivism / libertarian-adjacent capitalism
- Capitalist RealismMark FisherMarxist cultural theory
- CasteIsabel WilkersonRace / caste / American hierarchy
- Centesimus AnnusPope John Paul IICatholic social teaching
- Citizen and SubjectMahmood MamdaniPostcolonial state / citizenship
- Code: And Other Laws of CyberspaceLawrence LessigLaw and technology
- Common Good ConstitutionalismAdrian VermeulePost-liberal legal theory
- Conservatism: A RediscoveryYoram HazonyNational conservatism
- Conservatism: The Fight for a TraditionEdmund FawcettHistory of conservatism
- Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of StrangersKwame Anthony AppiahLiberal cosmopolitanism
- Creating CapabilitiesMartha C. NussbaumCapabilities approach / political philosophy
- Cultivating HumanityMartha NussbaumLiberal education / cosmopolitanism
- Culture and ImperialismEdward SaidPostcolonial literary politics
- Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid GraeberAnarchist anthropology
- Decolonising the MindNgũgĩ wa Thiong'oPostcolonial culture / language
- Democracy and DistrustJohn Hart ElyConstitutional theory
- Democracy and Its CriticsRobert DahlDemocratic theory / pluralism
- Democracy and KnowledgeJosiah OberAncient democracy / epistemic theory
- Democracy for RealistsChristopher Achen and Larry BartelsEmpirical democratic theory
- Democracy's DiscontentMichael SandelCivic republicanism / liberal critique
- Development as FreedomAmartya SenLiberal egalitarianism / development economics
- DiplomacyHenry KissingerRealist diplomacy / international order
- Disability Rights and WrongsTom ShakespeareDisability rights
- Discipline and PunishMichel FoucaultPost-structuralism / power analysis
- Discrimination and DisparitiesThomas SowellConservative empirical analysis
- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of TastePierre BourdieuCritical sociology
- DominionTom HollandHistory of Christianity and the West
- Doughnut EconomicsKate RaworthEcological economics
- Down GirlKate ManneAnalytic feminism
- Down to EarthBruno LatourEcology / globalization / populism
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilHannah ArendtPolitical philosophy
- Enforcing NormalcyLennard J. DavisDisability studies
- Enlightenment NowSteven PinkerLiberal Enlightenment optimism
- EntitledKate ManneAnalytic feminism
- Epistemologies of the SouthBoaventura de Sousa SantosDecolonial theory / sociology of knowledge
- Extraordinary BodiesRosemarie Garland-ThomsonDisability studies / feminist theory
- Facts Don't Care About Your FeelingsBen ShapiroAmerican conservative commentary
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centerbell hooksIntersectional feminism
- Fields of BloodKaren ArmstrongReligion and violence
- Fortunes of FeminismNancy FraserFeminism / capitalism critique
- Free Market FairnessJohn TomasiBleeding-heart libertarianism
- Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social MediaJacob MchangamaFree-speech history
- Free to ChooseMilton Friedman and Rose FriedmanMarket liberalism
- Freedom for the Thought That We HateAnthony LewisCivil liberties / First Amendment
- Frontiers of JusticeMartha NussbaumCapabilities / disability / global justice
- Gender TroubleJudith ButlerQueer theory / feminism
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of IdentityJudith ButlerPoststructuralist feminism / queer theory
- Globalization and Its DiscontentsJoseph E. StiglitzHeterodox / Keynesian political economy
- God and Man at YaleWilliam F. Buckley Jr.American conservatism
- God Is Not GreatChristopher HitchensNew atheism / religion critique
- Governing the CommonsElinor OstromInstitutional political economy
- Hegemony and Socialist StrategyErnesto Laclau and Chantal MouffePost-Marxism / radical democracy
- How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky and Daniel ZiblattComparative democratic theory
- How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaWalter RodneyDependency theory / African history
- How to Be a ConservativeRoger ScrutonConservatism
- How to Be an AntiracistIbram X. KendiAntiracism
- I Write What I LikeSteve BikoBlack Consciousness
- Identity and Violence: The Illusion of DestinyAmartya SenLiberal political philosophy
- Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of ResentmentFrancis FukuyamaLiberal political theory
- If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?G. A. CohenEgalitarian ethics
- Imagined CommunitiesBenedict AndersonNationalism studies
- Inclusion and DemocracyIris Marion YoungDemocratic theory / feminism
- Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic PerformanceDouglass NorthInstitutional economics
- Intellectuals and SocietyThomas SowellConservative sociology of intellectuals
- InvariancesRobert NozickLibertarian metaphysics / ethics
- Inventing Human RightsLynn HuntHistory of rights
- Inventing the IndividualLarry SiedentopChristianity and liberal individualism
- Just and Unjust WarsMichael WalzerJust war theory / political philosophy
- Justice and the Politics of DifferenceIris Marion YoungPolitical theory / social justice
- Justice as FairnessJohn RawlsLiberal egalitarianism
- Justice InterruptusNancy FraserCritical theory / feminism
- Justice, Gender, and the FamilySusan Moller OkinLiberal feminism
- Kicking Away the LadderHa-Joon ChangHeterodox development economics
- Knowledge and DecisionsThomas SowellMarket liberal social theory
- Knowledge and Human InterestsJürgen HabermasCritical theory / knowledge
- Laudato Si'Pope FrancisCatholic ecological social thought
- Law and DisagreementJeremy WaldronConstitutional theory
- Law, Legislation and LibertyFriedrich HayekClassical liberalism / Austrian school
- Law's EmpireRonald DworkinLiberal legal philosophy
- Liberal NationalismYael TamirNationalism / liberalism
- Liberalism Against ItselfSamuel MoynIntellectual history of liberalism
- Liberalism and EmpireUday Singh MehtaLiberalism-and-empire scholarship
- Liberalism and the Limits of JusticeMichael SandelCommunitarian critique of liberalism
- Liberalism: The Life of an IdeaEdmund FawcettHistory of liberalism
- Liberty before LiberalismQuentin SkinnerRepublicanism / history of ideas
- Liquid ModernityZygmunt BaumanSociology of modernity
- Live Not by LiesRod DreherConservative anti-totalitarianism
- Long Walk to FreedomNelson MandelaAnti-apartheid liberation
- Love's LaborEva Feder KittayCare ethics / justice
- Main Currents of MarxismLeszek KołakowskiHistory of Marxism / anti-totalitarian critique
- Making Democracy WorkRobert D. PutnamCivic traditions / institutions
- Man, Economy, and StateMurray RothbardAustrian economics / libertarianism
- Man, the State, and WarKenneth WaltzInternational relations theory
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass MediaEdward S. Herman and Noam ChomskyLeft media critique
- Mapping the MarginsKimberlé CrenshawIntersectionality
- Maps of MeaningJordan PetersonPsychology / religion / myth
- Markets Not CapitalismGary Chartier and Charles W. JohnsonLeft-wing market anarchism
- MilestonesSayyid QutbIslamist political thought
- Modernity and the HolocaustZygmunt BaumanSociology / modernity
- Mother StateHelen CharmanFeminist politics of motherhood
- Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority RightsWill KymlickaLiberal multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of RecognitionCharles TaylorCommunitarian philosophy
- National IdentityAnthony D. SmithNationalism studies
- Nations and NationalismErnest GellnerNationalism studies / modernism
- NecropoliticsAchille MbembePostcolonial / critical theory
- Negative DialecticsTheodor AdornoCritical theory / philosophy
- Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of ImperialismKwame NkrumahPan-Africanism / anti-colonialism
- Network PropagandaYochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal RobertsMedia / polarization
- No Name in the StreetJames BaldwinRace / political witness
- Not for ProfitMartha NussbaumEducation / democracy
- Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn RandLeonard PeikoffObjectivism (systematic statement)
- Old AgeSimone de BeauvoirSocial philosophy / aging
- On DemocracyRobert A. DahlPluralist democratic theory
- On FreedomTimothy SnyderPositive theory of freedom
- On NationalityDavid MillerNationalism / political theory
- On Populist ReasonErnesto LaclauPopulism / post-Marxism
- On the PostcolonyAchille MbembeAfrican postcolonial theory
- On the Sociology of IslamAli ShariatiIslamic social thought / revolution
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyTimothy SnyderLiberal democratic history
- One-Dimensional ManHerbert MarcuseFrankfurt School critical theory
- Open DemocracyHélène LandemoreDemocratic theory
- Open Veins of Latin AmericaEduardo GaleanoDependency theory / Latin American left
- Ordinary VicesJudith ShklarPolitical morality / liberalism
- OrientalismEdward SaidPostcolonial theory
- Pedagogy of the OppressedPaulo FreireCritical pedagogy / liberation thought
- Political LiberalismJohn RawlsLiberal political philosophy
- Political Order and Political DecayFrancis FukuyamaComparative political development
- Political Order in Changing SocietiesSamuel P. HuntingtonPolitical development / order
- Politics of NatureBruno LatourEcology / political philosophy
- PolyarchyRobert DahlPluralist democratic theory
- Power and ProgressDaron Acemoglu and Simon JohnsonTechnology / political economy
- Provincializing EuropeDipesh ChakrabartyPostcolonial history
- Purity and DangerMary DouglasAnthropology / order and taboo
- Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist ReaderDark Star CollectiveAnarcha-feminism
- Race After TechnologyRuha BenjaminTechnology / race / justice
- Race MattersCornel WestBlack prophetic thought / pragmatism
- Regime ChangePatrick J. DeneenPostliberal political theory
- Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal FuturePatrick J. DeneenPost-liberal conservatism
- RepublicanismPhilip PettitRepublican political theory
- Rescuing Justice and EqualityG. A. CohenEgalitarian theory
- Revolution at Point ZeroSilvia FedericiMarxist feminism
- Revolutionary SuicideHuey P. NewtonBlack radicalism
- Risk Society: Towards a New ModernityUlrich BeckSociology of modernity
- Rules for RadicalsSaul AlinskyCommunity organizing / power
- Seeing Like a StateJames C. ScottAnarchist / institutional analysis
- Self-Ownership, Freedom, and EqualityG. A. CohenAnalytical Marxism
- Sex and Social JusticeMartha NussbaumLiberal feminism / capabilities
- Sexual PoliticsKate MillettRadical feminism
- Silent SpringRachel CarsonEnvironmental politics / political ecology
- Simulacra and SimulationJean BaudrillardPostmodern social theory
- Sister OutsiderAudre LordeBlack feminist essays
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily LifeNassim Nicholas TalebHeterodox libertarian thought
- Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorRob NixonEnvironmental justice
- Small Is BeautifulE. F. SchumacherEcological economics / human-scale economy
- Social Theory of International PoliticsAlexander WendtConstructivism / international relations
- Socialism and Man in CubaErnesto Che GuevaraRevolutionary socialism
- Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never DiesKristian NiemietzMarket liberal critique of socialism
- Society Must Be DefendedMichel FoucaultPower / war / biopolitics
- Spheres of JusticeMichael WalzerCommunitarian justice theory
- Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and EqualityMichael WalzerCommunitarian political philosophy
- Stabilizing an Unstable EconomyHyman P. MinskyPost-Keynesian economics
- Stamped from the BeginningIbram X. KendiHistory of racist ideas
- Surveillance CapitalismShoshana ZuboffTechnology / capitalism critique
- Taking Rights SeriouslyRonald DworkinLiberal legal philosophy
- TechnofeudalismYanis VaroufakisHeterodox political economy
- The Abolition of BritainPeter HitchensBritish conservatism / cultural criticism
- The Age of AIHenry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel HuttenlocherTechnology / political order
- The Age of EntitlementChristopher CaldwellConservative critique of civil rights politics
- The Age of Entitlement: America Since the SixtiesChristopher CaldwellConservative revisionist history
- The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana ZuboffCritical political economy of technology
- The Anatomy of FascismRobert O. PaxtonComparative politics / historical analysis
- The Archaeology of KnowledgeMichel FoucaultPost-structuralism / discourse
- The Art of Not Being GovernedJames C. ScottAnarchist anthropology
- The Athenian Democracy in the Age of DemosthenesMogens Herman HansenClassical Athenian democracy scholarship
- The Authoritarian MomentBen ShapiroAmerican conservative commentary
- The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X and Alex HaleyBlack nationalism / autobiography
- The Benedict OptionRod DreherPost-liberal Christian conservatism
- The Bias That Divides UsKeith StanovichCognitive psychology / democratic epistemics
- The Birth of BiopoliticsMichel FoucaultGovernmentality / neoliberalism
- The Blank SlateSteven PinkerEvolutionary psychology / liberal humanism
- The Case for GodKaren ArmstrongHistory of religion / belief
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderSamuel P. HuntingtonCivilizational realism / international relations
- The Closing of the American MindAllan BloomStraussian conservatism
- The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff and Jonathan HaidtLiberal heterodox / free-speech
- The Concept of LawH. L. A. HartLegal positivism / analytic jurisprudence
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945George H. NashHistory of American conservatism
- The Conservative MindRussell KirkAmerican conservatism
- The Conservative SensibilityGeorge F. WillAmerican conservatism / classical liberalism
- The Creation of PatriarchyGerda LernerFeminist history
- The Crooked Timber of HumanityIsaiah BerlinLiberal pluralism / history of ideas
- The Cultural Contradictions of CapitalismDaniel BellCapitalism / culture
- The Dark Side of DemocracyMichael MannCritical sociology of ethnic cleansing
- The Darker Side of Western ModernityWalter MignoloDecolonial theory
- The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber and David WengrowPolitical anthropology / freedom
- The Demon in DemocracyRyszard LegutkoNational-conservative critique of liberalism
- The Desire of the NationsOliver O'DonovanChristian political theology
- The Dialectic of SexShulamith FirestoneRadical feminism
- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good PoliticsBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair SmithRational-choice political science
- The Ecology of FreedomMurray BookchinSocial ecology / anarchism
- The Economics of Feasible SocialismAlec NoveMarket socialism / planning debate
- The End of History and the Last ManFrancis FukuyamaLiberal political philosophy
- The End of Race PoliticsColeman HughesLiberal colorblindness / race
- The Entrepreneurial StateMariana MazzucatoHeterodox political economy
- The Ethics of AuthenticityCharles TaylorCommunitarian philosophy
- The Examined LifeRobert NozickPhilosophical reflections
- The Ezra Klein Show: Why We're PolarizedEzra KleinPolarization / American politics
- The Faces of InjusticeJudith ShklarJustice / political judgment
- The Fatal ConceitFriedrich HayekClassical liberalism / tradition
- The Female EunuchGermaine GreerSecond-wave feminism
- The Feminine MystiqueBetty FriedanLiberal feminism
- The Fire Is Upon UsNicholas BuccolaRace / liberalism and conservatism
- The Fire Next TimeJames BaldwinRace / religion / American democracy
- The Fragility of GoodnessMartha NussbaumGreek ethics / luck and politics
- The God DelusionRichard DawkinsNew atheism / science and religion
- The Great DelusionJohn MearsheimerCritique of liberal hegemony
- The Great DerangementAmitav GhoshClimate / colonial modernity
- The Great LevelerWalter ScheidelInequality / political history
- The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr SolzhenitsynAnti-totalitarian witness
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to KnowledgeMichel FoucaultPoststructuralism
- The Human Rights ReaderMicheline IshayHuman rights history
- The Human Rights RevolutionLynn HuntHistory of rights
- The Humanism of the OtherEmmanuel LevinasEthics / responsibility
- The Idea of JusticeAmartya SenLiberal egalitarianism / capabilities
- The Identity TrapYascha MounkLiberal universalism
- The Impossible StateWael HallaqIslamic law / modern state critique
- The Inclusion of the OtherJürgen HabermasDemocracy / pluralism
- The IndividualistsMatt Zwolinski and John TomasiHistory of libertarian thought
- The Jakarta MethodVincent BevinsCold War anti-communist violence
- The Labyrinth of SolitudeOctavio PazMexican identity / modernity
- The Law of PeoplesJohn RawlsLiberal international theory
- The Liberalism of FearJudith ShklarLiberal political theory
- The Libertarian IdeaJan NarvesonLibertarian ethics
- The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for DemocracyIvan Krastev and Stephen HolmesComparative democratic theory
- The Limits to GrowthDonella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William BehrensSystems analysis / environmentalism
- The Location of CultureHomi K. BhabhaPostcolonial theory
- The Logic of Collective ActionMancur OlsonPublic choice economics
- The Machinery of FreedomDavid FriedmanLibertarianism / anarcho-capitalism
- The Madness of CrowdsDouglas MurrayHeterodox / conservative cultural criticism
- The Meaning of ConservatismRoger ScrutonConservatism
- The Minority BodyElizabeth BarnesDisability political philosophy
- The Morality of FreedomJoseph RazPerfectionist liberalism
- The Motorcycle DiariesErnesto Che GuevaraRevolutionary memoir
- The Mystery of CapitalHernando de SotoMarket-liberal development economics
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad PoliciesBryan CaplanLibertarian public choice
- The Narrow CorridorDaron Acemoglu and James RobinsonLiberty / state and society
- The New Jim CrowMichelle AlexanderRace / criminal justice
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle AlexanderCritical race / criminal-justice analysis
- The Once and Future LiberalMark LillaLiberal political strategy
- The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity PoliticsMark LillaLiberal critique of identity politics
- The Once and Future WorkerOren CassConservative political economy
- The Open Sore of a ContinentWole SoyinkaAfrican democracy / tyranny
- The Origins of Political OrderFrancis FukuyamaComparative political development
- The Origins of WokeRichard HananiaConservative / libertarian institutional critique
- The Parasitic MindGad SaadEvolutionary psychology / free-speech advocacy
- The People vs. DemocracyYascha MounkLiberal democracy / democratic theory
- The Philosophical Discourse of ModernityJürgen HabermasModernity / critical theory
- The Politics of RealityMarilyn FryeRadical feminism
- The Populist TemptationBarry EichengreenPolitical economy / populism
- The Postmodern ConditionJean-François LyotardPostmodernism / knowledge
- The Present AgeRobert NisbetConservative social criticism
- The ProphetsAbraham Joshua HeschelJewish prophetic theology
- The Quest for Cosmic JusticeThomas SowellConservative critique of social justice
- The Racial ContractCharles W. MillsCritical race liberal critique
- The Rage Against GodPeter HitchensReligious conservatism
- The Rational OptimistMatt RidleyMarket-liberal optimism
- The Reactionary MindCorey RobinLeft critique of conservatism
- The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of DemocracyChristopher LaschPopulist social criticism
- The Revolt of the PublicMartin GurriDigital media / authority crisis
- The Right Side of HistoryBen ShapiroConservatism
- The Right to SexAmia SrinivasanFeminist philosophy
- The Righteous MindJonathan HaidtMoral psychology
- The Road to SomewhereDavid GoodhartCommunitarianism / populism
- The Sacred CanopyPeter BergerSociology of religion
- The Scout MindsetJulia GalefRationality / open inquiry
- The Second Declaration of HavanaFidel CastroAnti-imperial revolutionary politics
- The Secular CityHarvey CoxChristian theology / secularization
- The Sexual ContractCarole PatemanFeminist political theory
- The Shock DoctrineNaomi KleinLeft critique of neoliberalism
- The StateAnthony de JasayLibertarian political theory
- The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern WestMark LillaIntellectual history / liberalism
- The Structural Transformation of the Public SphereJürgen HabermasCritical theory / democratic theory
- The Struggle for RecognitionAxel HonnethFrankfurt School critical theory
- The Technological RepublicAlexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. ZamiskaTechnological nationalism
- The Theory of Communicative ActionJürgen HabermasFrankfurt School / critical theory
- The Three Worlds of Welfare CapitalismGøsta Esping-AndersenComparative welfare-state political economy
- The Tragedy of Great Power PoliticsJohn J. MearsheimerOffensive realism / international relations
- The Tragedy of the CommonsGarrett HardinEcological political economy
- The Tyranny of ExpertsWilliam EasterlyClassical-liberal development economics
- The Tyranny of MeritMichael SandelMeritocracy critique
- The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?Michael J. SandelCommunitarian political philosophy
- The Tyranny of RightsConor GeartyRights critique / law
- The Ultimate ResourceJulian L. SimonMarket-liberal / cornucopian economics
- The Unbroken ThreadSohrab AhmariReligious conservatism
- The Underside of ModernityEnrique DusselLatin American liberation philosophy
- The Value of EverythingMariana MazzucatoPolitical economy / value
- The Varieties of Secularism in a Secular AgeMichael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig CalhounSecularism / political theory
- The Virtue of NationalismYoram HazonyNational conservatism
- The Virtue of SelfishnessAyn RandObjectivism / ethics
- The War for KindnessJamil ZakiEmpathy / polarization
- The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph HenrichCultural evolution / institutions
- Theopolitical ImaginationWilliam CavanaughPolitical theology
- Theory of International PoliticsKenneth WaltzNeorealism / international relations
- Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel KahnemanBehavioural psychology
- This Bridge Called My BackCherríe Moraga and Gloria AnzaldúaWomen of color feminism
- This Changes EverythingNaomi KleinClimate politics / capitalism critique
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the ClimateNaomi KleinEcological left
- Toward a Feminist Theory of the StateCatharine A. MacKinnonRadical feminism / legal theory
- TrustFrancis FukuyamaSocial trust / political economy
- Truth and MethodHans-Georg GadamerHermeneutics / tradition
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of AuthoritarianismAnne ApplebaumLiberal democratic analysis
- Tyranny of the MinoritySteven Levitsky and Daniel ZiblattComparative democratic theory
- Ujamaa: Essays on SocialismJulius K. NyerereAfrican socialism
- Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth RevolutionWendy BrownCritical political theory
- Unwell WomenElinor CleghornFeminist history of medicine
- Vision of the AnointedThomas SowellConservative critique of intellectuals
- We Have Never Been ModernBruno LatourModernity critique
- We Who Wrestle with GodJordan PetersonBiblical interpretation / psychology
- Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'NeilCritical data studies
- Weapons of the WeakJames C. ScottPeasant politics / resistance
- What Is Populism?Jan-Werner MüllerDemocratic theory
- When Victims Become KillersMahmood MamdaniPolitical violence / genocide
- White FragilityRobin DiAngeloAnti-racism / social psychology
- Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought MattersDaniel A. BellChinese political philosophy
- Why Liberalism FailedPatrick J. DeneenPost-liberal conservatism
- Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu and James RobinsonInstitutions / political economy
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyDaron Acemoglu and James A. RobinsonInstitutional political economy
- Why Not Socialism?G. A. CohenAnalytical Marxism / egalitarianism
- Why We're PolarizedEzra KleinPolitical journalism / political science synthesis
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black AmericaJohn McWhorterLiberal / heterodox critique of antiracism
- Women and Human DevelopmentMartha NussbaumCapabilities feminism
- Women, Race & ClassAngela Y. DavisMarxist feminism
- Women, Race and ClassAngela DavisBlack feminism / socialism