Politics

I Am the Law

by Michael Molcher; read by Keval Shah

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An in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last forty-five years. Learn More

Illiberal America

by Steven Hahn; read by Mitch Crawford

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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals. Learn More

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

by Laura Robson; read by Lisa S. Ware

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In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel. Learn More

The Politics of Maps

by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell; read by Rachel Perry

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The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Learn More

Taming the Octopus

by Kyle Edward Williams; read by Jon Vertullo

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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism. Learn More

Trolling Ourselves to Death

by Jason Hannan; read by Ray Greenley

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Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Learn More

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung; read by Rebecca Lam

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An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"—now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party—that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Learn More

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

by Kevin Kenny; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

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A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction. Learn More

Getting Russia Right

by Thomas Graham; read by Daniel Henning

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As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? Learn More

Underserved

by Ja'Ron Smith and Chris Pilkerton; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

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This book provides a roadmap for modern-day conservatives to advance President Lincoln’s vision to help underserved communities across our country. Learn More

The New Crusades

by Khaled A. Beydoun; foreword by Kimberlé Crenshaw; read by Neil Shah

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The first book to examine global Islamophobia from a legal and ground-up perspective, from renowned public intellectual Khaled A. Beydoun. Learn More

Making the Supreme Court

by Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec; read by Lee Goettl

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Based on rich data and qualitative evidence, Making the Supreme Court provides a sharp lens on the social and political transformations that created a new American politics. Learn More

The Picnic

by Matthew Longo; read by Tom Parks

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The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. Learn More

A Fabulous Failure

by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein; read by Tom Campbell

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This book reveals why Bill Clinton's expansive agenda was a fabulous failure, and why its demise still haunts us today. Learn More

The Isolated Presidency

by Jordan T. Cash; read by Joshua Saxon

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To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Jordan T. Cash examines the "isolated presidents"—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Learn More