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🎙️ Public Intellectualism

An examination of the tradition and responsibility of thinking aloud for a broad audience, from essay to broadcast to social media. These works ask what role ideas should play in democratic life.
The True and Only Heaven
by Christopher Lasch • 1991
Progress is exhausted; the only usable past belongs to those who doubted it.
4.36
382
🕰️ Critique Of Modernity🧠 Intellectual History🎭 Cultural Criticism
The True and Only Heaven Summary
The True and Only Heaven 91%
Progress is exhausted; the only usable past belongs to those who doubted it.
by Christopher Lasch 1991
4.36
382 ratings
🕰️ Critique Of Modernity🧠 Intellectual History🎭 Cultural Criticism
Intellectuals and Society
by Thomas Sowellm • 2009
The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.
4.29
4k+
🏛️ Political Philosophy📢 Social Criticism🧠 Intellectual Overreach
Intellectuals and Society Summary
Intellectuals and Society 91%
The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.
by Thomas Sowellm 2009
4.29
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy📢 Social Criticism🧠 Intellectual Overreach
Taking it Big
by Stanley Aronowitz • 2012
He exposed concentrated power in a military-corporate alliance and called on thinkers to fight back.
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12
📘 Intellectual Biography🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge🏛️ Elite Theory
Taking it Big Summary
Taking it Big 91%
He exposed concentrated power in a military-corporate alliance and called on thinkers to fight back.
by Stanley Aronowitz 2012
4.08
12 ratings
📘 Intellectual Biography🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge🏛️ Elite Theory
Explaining Postmodernism
by Stephen R.C. Hicks • 2004
When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.
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2k+
🏛️ Intellectual History🔍 Postmodernism Critique⚖️ Political Philosophy
Explaining Postmodernism Summary
Explaining Postmodernism 91%
When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.
by Stephen R.C. Hicks 2004
3.88
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Intellectual History🔍 Postmodernism Critique⚖️ Political Philosophy
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman • 1985
The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.
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🏞️ Media Ecology📰 Media Criticism🗳️ Political Communication
Amusing Ourselves to Death Summary
Amusing Ourselves to Death 90%
The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.
by Neil Postman 1985
4.17
39k+ ratings
🏞️ Media Ecology📰 Media Criticism🗳️ Political Communication
Against the Web
by Michael Brooks • 2020
Internet 'free-thinkers' rebrand old defenses of hierarchy with pseudoscience and myth.
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2k+
🐘 Right-Wing Ideology💻 Internet Intellectuals📺 Media Criticism
Against the Web Summary
Against the Web 90%
Internet 'free-thinkers' rebrand old defenses of hierarchy with pseudoscience and myth.
by Michael Brooks 2020
4.10
2k+ ratings
🐘 Right-Wing Ideology💻 Internet Intellectuals📺 Media Criticism
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
by Christopher Lasch • 1995
Democracy is threatened not by the masses but by an elite that has abandoned the public square.
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🇺🇸 American Democracy🏛️ Class Divide🎓 Meritocracy Critique
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Summary
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy 90%
Democracy is threatened not by the masses but by an elite that has abandoned the public square.
by Christopher Lasch 1995
3.95
2k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Democracy🏛️ Class Divide🎓 Meritocracy Critique
Spoilt Rotten
by dalrymple-theodore • 2010
Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.
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🏛️ Cultural Criticism🗣️ Political Polemics🔍 Rational Inquiry
Spoilt Rotten Summary
Spoilt Rotten 90%
Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.
by dalrymple-theodore 2010
3.96
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Cultural Criticism🗣️ Political Polemics🔍 Rational Inquiry
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby • 2008
Suspicion of ideas predates the American republic. The forces feeding it have never been louder.
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🧠 Anti-Intellectualism🎭 Cultural Criticism📚 Intellectual History
The Age of American Unreason Summary
The Age of American Unreason 90%
Suspicion of ideas predates the American republic. The forces feeding it have never been louder.
by Susan Jacoby 2008
3.85
3k+ ratings
🧠 Anti-Intellectualism🎭 Cultural Criticism📚 Intellectual History
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
by Jürgen Habermas • 1962
Democracy was born in coffee houses and strangled by the mass media that followed.
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2k+
📖 Critical Theory🏛️ Historical Sociology🏢 Frankfurt School
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Summary
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere 90%
Democracy was born in coffee houses and strangled by the mass media that followed.
by Jürgen Habermas 1962
3.87
2k+ ratings
📖 Critical Theory🏛️ Historical Sociology🏢 Frankfurt School
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens • 2001
Thinking for yourself will cost you friends and comfort. This is why you do it anyway.
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🗳️ Political Dissent🧠 Independent Thought🏴 Anti-Tribalism
Letters to a Young Contrarian Summary
Letters to a Young Contrarian 90%
Thinking for yourself will cost you friends and comfort. This is why you do it anyway.
by Christopher Hitchens 2001
4.13
13k+ ratings
🗳️ Political Dissent🧠 Independent Thought🏴 Anti-Tribalism
The Death of Expertise
by Thomas M. Nichols • 2017
Why do people resent the experts who know more? A diagnosis of the cultural war on knowledge.
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🛡️ Anti-Intellectualism🧠 Cognitive Biases🗞️ Media Criticism
The Death of Expertise Summary
The Death of Expertise 90%
Why do people resent the experts who know more? A diagnosis of the cultural war on knowledge.
by Thomas M. Nichols 2017
3.82
10k+ ratings
🛡️ Anti-Intellectualism🧠 Cognitive Biases🗞️ Media Criticism
Propaganda
by Jacques Ellul • 1962
Propaganda is not a tool but a total environment, and its aim is action, not belief.
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📺 Media Theory🏙️ Mass Society🧠 Psychological Manipulation
Propaganda Summary
Propaganda 90%
Propaganda is not a tool but a total environment, and its aim is action, not belief.
by Jacques Ellul 1962
4.28
1k+ ratings
📺 Media Theory🏙️ Mass Society🧠 Psychological Manipulation
The Tyranny of Opinion
by Russell Blackford • 2018
Conformity is eating liberalism from the inside, and censors don't all sit on the right.
3.92
36
🗣️ Free Speech🏛️ Classical Liberalism🎯 Cancel Culture
The Tyranny of Opinion Summary
The Tyranny of Opinion 90%
Conformity is eating liberalism from the inside, and censors don't all sit on the right.
by Russell Blackford 2018
3.92
36 ratings
🗣️ Free Speech🏛️ Classical Liberalism🎯 Cancel Culture
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy
by Nicolas Michaud • 2016
Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.
3.43
30
🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy🏛️ Political Philosophy🦸 Superhero Analysis
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy Summary
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy 90%
Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.
by Nicolas Michaud 2016
3.43
30 ratings
🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy🏛️ Political Philosophy🦸 Superhero Analysis
How Propaganda Works
by Jason F. Stanley • 2015
How coded language and elite myths rig democratic debate, and why the educated fall hardest.
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859
🔍 Propaganda Studies🗳️ Political Language💬 Philosophy Of Language
How Propaganda Works Summary
How Propaganda Works 90%
How coded language and elite myths rig democratic debate, and why the educated fall hardest.
by Jason F. Stanley 2015
3.59
859 ratings
🔍 Propaganda Studies🗳️ Political Language💬 Philosophy Of Language
Too Big to Know
by David Weinberger • 2012
Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.
3.80
2k+
🕸️ Networked Knowledge📚 Information Overload🏛️ Authority And Expertise
Too Big to Know Summary
Too Big to Know 90%
Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.
by David Weinberger 2012
3.80
2k+ ratings
🕸️ Networked Knowledge📚 Information Overload🏛️ Authority And Expertise
Power, Politics and Culture
by Edward W. Said • 2001
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
4.26
613
🏛️ Postcolonial Theory🕌 Middle Eastern Politics🗺️ Cultural Imperialism
Power, Politics and Culture Summary
Power, Politics and Culture 90%
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
by Edward W. Said 2001
4.26
613 ratings
🏛️ Postcolonial Theory🕌 Middle Eastern Politics🗺️ Cultural Imperialism
In the Long Run
by Jonathan White • 2024
The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.
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85
🗳️ Democratic Theory📜 Intellectual History💭 Political Imagination
In the Long Run Summary
In the Long Run 90%
The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.
by Jonathan White 2024
3.78
85 ratings
🗳️ Democratic Theory📜 Intellectual History💭 Political Imagination
Arguably
by Christopher Hitchens • 2011
Tyranny, religion, empire, sentimentality: what remains after clarity and history have their say.
4.20
10k+
🎙️ Political Commentary📖 Literary Criticism⛪ Religious Critique
Arguably Summary
Arguably 90%
Tyranny, religion, empire, sentimentality: what remains after clarity and history have their say.
by Christopher Hitchens 2011
4.20
10k+ ratings
🎙️ Political Commentary📖 Literary Criticism⛪ Religious Critique
The Two Cultures
by C.P. Snow • 1959
A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.
3.66
2k+
📜 Intellectual History🔬 Science And Society🧪 Scientific Literacy
The Two Cultures Summary
The Two Cultures 90%
A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.
by C.P. Snow 1959
3.66
2k+ ratings
📜 Intellectual History🔬 Science And Society🧪 Scientific Literacy
The Disappearance of Rituals
by Byung-Chul Han • 2019
Your exhaustion isn't overwork. It's a world that has stripped out every ritual.
3.98
3k+
📰 Cultural Criticism🕊️ Ritual Studies💰 Neoliberal Critique
The Disappearance of Rituals Summary
The Disappearance of Rituals 90%
Your exhaustion isn't overwork. It's a world that has stripped out every ritual.
by Byung-Chul Han 2019
3.98
3k+ ratings
📰 Cultural Criticism🕊️ Ritual Studies💰 Neoliberal Critique
The Deadline
by Jill Lepore • 2023
The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.
4.31
621
🏛️ Cultural History📚 Essay Collections📰 Media Criticism
The Deadline Summary
The Deadline 90%
The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.
by Jill Lepore 2023
4.31
621 ratings
🏛️ Cultural History📚 Essay Collections📰 Media Criticism
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han • 2023
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
3.91
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🏛️ Continental Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🔍 Critical Theory
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration 90%
We drown in information but starve for stories. A philosophy of what happens when narration dies.
by Byung-Chul Han 2023
3.91
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Continental Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism🔍 Critical Theory
Cynical Theories
by Helen Pluckrose • 2020
How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.
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6k+
🌀 Postmodernism📖 Critical Theory🏷️ Identity Politics
Cynical Theories Summary
Cynical Theories 90%
How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.
by Helen Pluckrose 2020
4.10
6k+ ratings
🌀 Postmodernism📖 Critical Theory🏷️ Identity Politics
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills • 1959
Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.
4.16
3k+
📚 Sociological Theory✊ Critical Sociology🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination 90%
Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.
by C. Wright Mills 1959
4.16
3k+ ratings
📚 Sociological Theory✊ Critical Sociology🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique
The Quiet Before
by Gal Beckerman • 2022
Why the movements that changed the world began with letters and zines, not viral posts.
3.79
485
🏴 Social Movements📰 Media History📢 Political Communication
The Quiet Before Summary
The Quiet Before 90%
Why the movements that changed the world began with letters and zines, not viral posts.
by Gal Beckerman 2022
3.79
485 ratings
🏴 Social Movements📰 Media History📢 Political Communication
A History of India, Vol. 1
by Romila Thapar • 1990
How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.
3.63
2k+
🎬 Film Criticism📖 Cultural Theory🏛️ Postmodernism
A History of India, Vol. 1 Summary
A History of India, Vol. 1 90%
How a 1999 sci-fi film exposed the simulation we were already living in.
by Romila Thapar 1990
3.63
2k+ ratings
🎬 Film Criticism📖 Cultural Theory🏛️ Postmodernism
The Anarchist In The Library
by Siva Vaidhyanathan • 2004
The web set free-sharing anarchists against control-hungry oligarchs, and neither side is winning.
3.50
175
🛡️ Digital Rights⚖️ Copyright Politics🏛️ Cultural Commons
The Anarchist In The Library Summary
The Anarchist In The Library 90%
The web set free-sharing anarchists against control-hungry oligarchs, and neither side is winning.
by Siva Vaidhyanathan 2004
3.50
175 ratings
🛡️ Digital Rights⚖️ Copyright Politics🏛️ Cultural Commons
The News
by Alain de Botton • 2014
Modern news breeds panic and distraction. A humanistic guide to staying sane amid the headlines.
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📰 Media Criticism🧠 Media Literacy⚠️ Negativity Bias
The News Summary
The News 90%
Modern news breeds panic and distraction. A humanistic guide to staying sane amid the headlines.
by Alain de Botton 2014
3.58
3k+ ratings
📰 Media Criticism🧠 Media Literacy⚠️ Negativity Bias
Free Speech
by Timothy Garton Ash • 2017
Free speech was built for a world of nations and newspapers. That world is gone.
3.96
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🗣️ Free Speech🌐 Internet Freedom📰 Media And Democracy
Free Speech Summary
Free Speech 90%
Free speech was built for a world of nations and newspapers. That world is gone.
by Timothy Garton Ash 2017
3.96
312 ratings
🗣️ Free Speech🌐 Internet Freedom📰 Media And Democracy
Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen • 2018
Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.
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🏛️ Political Philosophy🤝 Communitarianism🧩 Individualism Critique
Why Liberalism Failed Summary
Why Liberalism Failed 90%
Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.
by Patrick J. Deneen 2018
3.84
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy🤝 Communitarianism🧩 Individualism Critique
The Good Society
by Robert N. Bellah • 1991
Individualism gutted our institutions. Repair begins where the myth ends: we need each other.
3.66
105
🏘️ Communitarianism🗳️ American Civic Life🏛️ Democratic Theory
The Good Society Summary
The Good Society 90%
Individualism gutted our institutions. Repair begins where the myth ends: we need each other.
by Robert N. Bellah 1991
3.66
105 ratings
🏘️ Communitarianism🗳️ American Civic Life🏛️ Democratic Theory
Digimodernism
by Alan Kirby • 2009
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
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🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
Digimodernism Summary
Digimodernism 90%
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
by Alan Kirby 2009
3.49
78 ratings
🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
Doppelganger
by Naomi Klein • 2023
Mistaken for her alt-right double, a leftist author maps the mirror world devouring our politics.
4.19
37k+
🗳️ Political Memoir🕳️ Conspiracy Theories🎭 Digital Identity
Doppelganger Summary
Doppelganger 90%
Mistaken for her alt-right double, a leftist author maps the mirror world devouring our politics.
by Naomi Klein 2023
4.19
37k+ ratings
🗳️ Political Memoir🕳️ Conspiracy Theories🎭 Digital Identity
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens
by Steven Loyal • 2003
Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.
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16
🧠 Social Theory🗳️ Political Sociology🎯 Social Action
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens Summary
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens 90%
Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.
by Steven Loyal 2003
4.31
16 ratings
🧠 Social Theory🗳️ Political Sociology🎯 Social Action
Technopoly
by Neil Postman • 1992
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
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5k+
🎙️ Media Ecology💻 Technology Criticism📊 Information Overload
Technopoly Summary
Technopoly 90%
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
by Neil Postman 1992
3.97
5k+ ratings
🎙️ Media Ecology💻 Technology Criticism📊 Information Overload
The Long Slide
by Tucker Carlson • 2021
A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.
4.13
2k+
📰 Political Journalism📺 Media Criticism🗣️ Free Speech
The Long Slide Summary
The Long Slide 90%
A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.
by Tucker Carlson 2021
4.13
2k+ ratings
📰 Political Journalism📺 Media Criticism🗣️ Free Speech
Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky • 2014
A superpower that tortures, invades, and sabotages democracy while the world calls it humanitarian.
4.05
13k+
🏛️ American Empire🕊️ Israel-Palestine📢 Propaganda Analysis
Who Rules the World? Summary
Who Rules the World? 90%
A superpower that tortures, invades, and sabotages democracy while the world calls it humanitarian.
by Noam Chomsky 2014
4.05
13k+ ratings
🏛️ American Empire🕊️ Israel-Palestine📢 Propaganda Analysis
The Image
by Daniel J. Boorstin • 1961
Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.
4.07
1k+
🎙️ Media Criticism🎭 Manufactured Reality🌟 Celebrity Culture
The Image Summary
The Image 90%
Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.
by Daniel J. Boorstin 1961
4.07
1k+ ratings
🎙️ Media Criticism🎭 Manufactured Reality🌟 Celebrity Culture
Slavoj Zizek
by Tony Myers • 2003
Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.
3.82
266
🧠 Continental Philosophy📖 Critical Theory🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Slavoj Zizek Summary
Slavoj Zizek 90%
Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.
by Tony Myers 2003
3.82
266 ratings
🧠 Continental Philosophy📖 Critical Theory🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis
The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom • 1988
A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.
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🏛️ Higher Education Critique🌐 American Culture Wars🤷 Moral Relativism
The Closing of the American Mind Summary
The Closing of the American Mind 90%
A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.
by Allan Bloom 1988
3.76
6k+ ratings
🏛️ Higher Education Critique🌐 American Culture Wars🤷 Moral Relativism
The Constitution of Knowledge
by Jonathan Rauch • 2021
Two invisible rules keep society tethered to reality. Both are being dismantled.
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🧠 Social Epistemology🏛️ Liberal Tradition🔍 Cognitive Biases
The Constitution of Knowledge Summary
The Constitution of Knowledge 90%
Two invisible rules keep society tethered to reality. Both are being dismantled.
by Jonathan Rauch 2021
4.25
2k+ ratings
🧠 Social Epistemology🏛️ Liberal Tradition🔍 Cognitive Biases
The Plus
by Greg Gutfeld • 2020
Cancel culture, mob thinking, and self-sabotage: one uncomfortable question takes on all three.
3.98
1k+
🙃 Anti-Self-Help🎯 Cancel Culture🧠 Intellectual Humility
The Plus Summary
The Plus 90%
Cancel culture, mob thinking, and self-sabotage: one uncomfortable question takes on all three.
by Greg Gutfeld 2020
3.98
1k+ ratings
🙃 Anti-Self-Help🎯 Cancel Culture🧠 Intellectual Humility
The Listening Society
by Hanzi Freinacht • 2017
Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.
4.49
402
🏛️ Political Philosophy📖 Social Theory🪜 Adult Development
The Listening Society Summary
The Listening Society 90%
Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.
by Hanzi Freinacht 2017
4.49
402 ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy📖 Social Theory🪜 Adult Development
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton • 2004
Why you care what others think: not weakness, but modern life working as designed.
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22k+
🏛️ Cultural Criticism📊 Social Status👀 Social Comparison
Status Anxiety Summary
Status Anxiety 90%
Why you care what others think: not weakness, but modern life working as designed.
by Alain de Botton 2004
3.89
22k+ ratings
🏛️ Cultural Criticism📊 Social Status👀 Social Comparison
Don't Burn This Country
by Dave Rubin • 2022
The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.
3.90
498
🚫 Cancel Culture Critique💪 Self-Reliance📰 Media Criticism
Don't Burn This Country Summary
Don't Burn This Country 90%
The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.
by Dave Rubin 2022
3.90
498 ratings
🚫 Cancel Culture Critique💪 Self-Reliance📰 Media Criticism
Return of the Strong Gods
by R.R. Reno • 2019
The postwar war on shared loyalties worked. The result is loneliness and a populist revolt.
4.04
871
🧠 Intellectual History🏛️ Elite Critique🗳️ Populist Movements
Return of the Strong Gods Summary
Return of the Strong Gods 90%
The postwar war on shared loyalties worked. The result is loneliness and a populist revolt.
by R.R. Reno 2019
4.04
871 ratings
🧠 Intellectual History🏛️ Elite Critique🗳️ Populist Movements
Ideas Have Consequences
by Richard M. Weaver • 1948
A 14th-century philosophical error unraveled the West. Fixing it demands harder medicine.
4.13
2k+
🏛️ Western Civilization🧠 Cultural Criticism⚖️ Traditionalist Conservatism
Ideas Have Consequences Summary
Ideas Have Consequences 90%
A 14th-century philosophical error unraveled the West. Fixing it demands harder medicine.
by Richard M. Weaver 1948
4.13
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Western Civilization🧠 Cultural Criticism⚖️ Traditionalist Conservatism
Star Wars and Philosophy
by Kevin S. Decker • 2005
Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.
4.04
2k+
🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy🎥 Film As Philosophy⚖️ Comparative Ethics
Star Wars and Philosophy Summary
Star Wars and Philosophy 90%
Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.
by Kevin S. Decker 2005
4.04
2k+ ratings
🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy🎥 Film As Philosophy⚖️ Comparative Ethics
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