Reading Lists

Radical Radha
Apr 01, 2024
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Social Commentary/Politics

  1. Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men, Dream Hoarders

  2. Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women

  3. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Elite Took Over Identity Politics

  4. Coleman Hughes
    , The End of Race Politics

  5. Richard D. Kahlenberg, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYISM, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See

  6. Ruy Teixeira
    and John Judis, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

  7. Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

  8. Yascha Mounk
    The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

  9. Freddie deBoer
    How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

  10. Michael Schellenberger, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

  11. Susan Neiman, Left is Not Woke

  12. Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

  13. Thomas Frank, The People, No: The War on Populism and the Fight for Democracy; Listen, Liberal

  14. Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

  15. Batya Ungar-Sargon, Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy

  16. Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?

  17. Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

  18. Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap

  19. Michael Lind, The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite

  20. Ron Suskind, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

  21. Asad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

Memoir

  1. Meghan Daum
    , The Trouble with Everything: My Journey Into the New Culture Wars

  2. Rob Henderson
    , Troubled

  3. Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans

  4. Kal Penn, You Can’t Be Serious

Philosophy/Religion

  1. Massimo Pigliucci
    How to Be a Stoic

  2. Donald J. Robertson
    How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

  3. The Platonic Dialogues

  4. Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

  5. Keya Maitra, The Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction

  6. Michael Sandel, Justice

  7. Aatish Tasseer, The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

  8. Wendy Doniger, Hindu Myths

  9. Devdutt Pattaniak, Indian Mythology

Psychology

  1. Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in an Age of Indulgence

  2. Ryan Holiday, Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

  3. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind

  4. Seneca, How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

  5. Siva Vaidyanathan, Anti-social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

  6. Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know

  7. Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

History/Anthropology/Polisci

  1. Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

  2. Lauren A. Rivera, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

  3. Sanjoy Chakravorty, The Other One Percent: Indians in America

The Deep Life

  1. Everything by Cal Newport: Deep Work, Slow Productivity, Digital Minimalism especially

  2. Adam Grant, Give and Take

Economics/Social Science/Business

  1. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

  2. Christopher Leonard, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

  3. Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

  4. Thomas Piketty, Why Save the Bankers?

  5. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail

  6. Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics

  7. John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  8. David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Thrive in a Specialized World