Democracy


How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Democracy in America
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Against Democracy
Autocracy, Inc.
On Democracy
Why We're Polarized
The Origins of Totalitarianism
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon   StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris1776 by David McCulloughHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Daily Show Reading Club
376 books — 278 voters
Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxThe Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David AbrahamConstitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Kremlin, MoscowAnti-Dühring by Friedrich EngelsEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph Stalin
Planned Economies - Socialism
18 books — 2 voters

Off-Topic by G.R. ReaderCivil Disobedience, Solitude & Life Without Principle by Henry David ThoreauOn Liberty by John Stuart MillThe Ailing Nation by Nate LinkHATE by Nadine Strossen
Free Speech!
114 books — 64 voters

Isaac Asimov
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ...more
Isaac Asimov

Yvonne Korshak
Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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