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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
Indignity Lea Ypi 2025-11-03
On Drugs Justin Smith-Ruiu Mark Dery 2025-11-03
Death in a Shallow Pond: a Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need David Edmonds Becca Rothfeld 2025-09-22
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois Robert Gooding-Williams Becca Rothfeld 2025-06-02
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard Quill R. Kukla 2025-02-03
The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us about Living a Good Life Mark Rowlands Becca Rothfeld 2025-01-13
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Clancy Martin Jamieson Webster 2023-05-15
Imagining the End: Mourning and the Ethical Life Jonathan Lear Daniel Oppenheimer 2022-11-14
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders Massimo Pigliucci Michael S. Roth 2022-10-17
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy David Chalmers Jess Keiser 2022-02-14
On The Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer Michael Dirda 2021-01-25
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers Lucinda Robb 2020-09-28
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life John Kaag James T. Kloppenberg 2020-05-11
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard 2020-05-04
The History of Philosophy A.C. Grayling Michael Dirda 2019-11-25
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game C. Thi Nguyen Becca Rothfeld
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia Philippe Sands Lily Meyer
The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown Ron Charles
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece James Romm Becca Rothfeld
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion Frédéric Gros trans. by Andrew James Bliss Alexander Stern
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus Elaine Pagels Ron Charles
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America Erik Baker Becca Rothfeld
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North Michelle Adams Michael Bobelian
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard Quill R. Kukla
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church Eliza Griswold Ayana Mathis
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World Anne Applebaum Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Glenn Loury John McMillian
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide Samir Chopra Becca Rothfeld
Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler Becca Rothfeld
The Book of Love Kelly Link Ron Charles
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz Becca Rothfeld
Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park Sophia Nguyen
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Dylan C. Penningroth Matthew F. Delmont
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made Cliff Sloan Michael Bobelian
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth Jennifer Banks Becca Rothfeld
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Patrick J Deneen Becca Rothfeld
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church Rachel L. Swarns Ana Lucia Araujo
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds Oliver Traldi
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Sarah Bakewell Mark Oppenheimer
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy Alex Mar Rosa Brooks
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable Joanna Schwartz Paul Butler
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives Robert D. Richardson Diane Cole
So Help Me God Mike Pence Geoffrey Kabaservice
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan Elizabeth Nelson
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self Andrea Wulf Greg Ellermann
In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits Terry Alford Dennis Drabelle
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler David Kertzer John Loughery
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness Andrew Scull Siri Hustvedt
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 Ben S Bernanke Steven Pearlstein
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Geoff Dyer Troy Jollimore
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