Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle by Natan Last is the rare crossword book that treats the humble grid as a cultural battleground rather … Read more
Politics, Scott Jennings argues in A Revolution of Common Sense, stopped listening to ordinary people long ago and disappeared into a maze of elites, bureaucracy and “woke” ideology that ignores … Read more
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is the book you pick up when the official story of the Manson murders stops making sense. After … Read more
In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrives like a clear voice cutting through static—honest, warm, and … Read more
If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity, authority, and who gets to set the rules. “The history … Read more
Love is not a luxury for Black life—it’s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks unpacks the book’s thesis, key chapters, evidence base, and real-world … Read more
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is the book that finally looks suburban respectability in the eye and quietly asks, “Why are so many women still so unhappy?” The Feminine … Read more
Motherland by Julia Ioffe is the feminist history of modern Russia I wish I’d had years ago—a book that solves a persistent problem: histories of Russia that treat women as … Read more
The book “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad is a scorching, timely examination of Western moral convenience—told by a reporter/novelist who has watched … Read more
If you’ve felt your favorite platforms turn from delightful to downright hostile, you’re not imagining it. Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It … Read more
The separation of church and state is under real, measurable pressure in the United States—and Randall Balmer’s compact new book America’s Best Idea is the plain-spoken toolkit many of us … Read more
If you’ve ever felt your faith—or your family chat—hijacked by cherry-picked verses and political talking points, Separation of Church and Hate gives you language, history, and scripture to get the … Read more
A book about fame, fear and finding a life you choose—Finding My Way: A Memoir shows how Malala Yousafzai solved a problem most “symbols” never admit: how to be a … Read more
Most of us feel the pinch of office politics and invisible hierarchies but never learn the rules that actually govern them; The 48 Laws of Power claims to decode those … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to untangle the Israel–Palestine conflict and felt lost in headlines, Son of Hamas solves a quieter, harder problem: it shows you the conflict from the inside, … Read more
Are you bored by history books that only focus on battles and laws? This book solves that problem by showing that what happens in the royal bedroom is often more … Read more
Fight Oligarchy by Bernie Sanders is a blunt, urgent manual for confronting oligarchy, authoritarian drift, and widening inequality—told by a politician who has spent decades fighting each of them. When … Read more
When democratic norms wobble and cynicism starts to feel sensible, Giving Up Is Unforgivable shows why disengagement is the one choice we can’t afford—and exactly what to do instead. In … Read more
Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst argues that evil isn’t abstract—it is embodied in specific people, decisions, and systems, and we must name it, study it, and act … Read more
If you’ve watched U.S. politics from the sidelines and wondered how “lawfare,” media narratives, and family loyalty collide behind the scenes, Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation … Read more
When democracies backslide, they rarely fall with a bang—they soften, then sag, and then one day you wake up and your voice has been outsourced to fear. On Tyranny condenses … Read more
How Democracies Die — Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt (Crown, 2018) is a comparative-political diagnosis of democratic backsliding, rooting the danger in the erosion of norms and the failure of … Read more
We all know the stock market crashed in 1929, plunging the world into the Great Depression. But what we don’t know is the gripping, human drama of the flawed men … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered what survival really means when every variable is outside your control, Hostage by Eli Sharabi is the manual, the memory, and the moral argument we didn’t … Read more
Washington runs on soundbites and shortcuts; How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will is Senator John Kennedy’s unapologetic manual for resisting both—while showing why the capital … Read more
When a single accusation can erase a lifetime of work, Dershowitz argues that cancel culture short-circuits both free speech and due process, replacing evidence with outrage. Cancel culture is “the … Read more
The Souls of Black Folk solves the problem of profound ignorance of what it means to live as a Black person in a world that refuses to see your humanity. … Read more
What happens when history, journalism, and memory collide in a single human voice? The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates confronts a problem many of us face in our fractured world—the problem … Read more
When I first picked up The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, I expected a spirited feminist screed. What I found was a manual for disruption—a deliberately “impolite” book … Read more
The intimate life in a changing Arab world is a subject of immense complexity, often shrouded in a veil of secrecy and public taboo. Shereen El Feki’s landmark book, Sex … Read more