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A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty Gary Gerstle
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism Matthew Continetti Carlos Lozada
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War Nicholas Mulder Joshua Keating
Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen Mythili G. Rao
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy Christopher Leonard Roger Lowenstein
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality Kathryn Paige Harden Jerry A. Coyne
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court Linda Greenhouse Julie Cohen
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow Annalee Newitz
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America Noah Feldman Elizabeth R. Varon
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Sam Quinones David Herzberg
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Steven Pinker Nick Romeo
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics Stephen Breyer Joan Biskupic
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Amia Srinivasan Megan Marz
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Mary Roach Amelia Urry
The Constitution of Knowledge Jonathan Rauch Robert G. Kaiser
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn Pamela S. Nadell
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Craig Whitlock Emma Ashford
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History Margalit Fox Michael Dirda
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Alan Taylor Colin Woodard
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand Carlos Lozada
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Jamal Greene Aziz Huq
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan Bilal Qureshi
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather McGhee Paul C. Taylor
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution James Oakes Elizabeth R. Varon
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life John Gray Charles Arrowsmith
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D Carter Steven Pearlstein
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard Clare Carlisle Sophie Madeline Dess
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism Katherine Stewart Jodi Eichler-Levine
The Death of Jesus J. M Coetzee Jon Michaud
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari Avi Tuschman
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success Ross Douthat Daniel Oppenheimer
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Rob Warden
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Christopher Shea
The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud, trans. by John Cullen Michael Mewshaw
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg Dina Temple-Raston
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Daron Acemoglu K. Sabeel Rahman
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators Ronan Farrow Elizabeth Bruenig
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation Andrew Marantz Susan Benkelman
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society Binyamin Appelbaum James Kwak
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin Kenneth W. Mack
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students Anthony Abraham Jack Laura Pappano
The Conservative Sensibility George F. Will Patrick J. Deneen
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West John Taliaferro Dennis Drabelle
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens Stephen Prothero
How the Classics Made Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Michael Dirda
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ Daniel Okrent David A. Hollinger
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature Stuart Kells Michael Dirda
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell Nicholas Cannariato
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Howell Raines
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright Lisa Miller
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