Political Science

The Savage Mind: A Reckoning with America’s Violent Legacy

The Savage Mind is not a metaphor. It is a diagnosis. In his most personal and ambitious book to date, … Read more

The American Way of Killing is Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet, and it argues something most Americans don’t want … Read more

I read Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind expecting to be a dusty Victorian relic. … Read more

Do you ever feel like you’re not a citizen anymore, just a data point being processed by algorithms you don’t … Read more

If you grew up in Pakistan, you were probably taught that the Pakistan Movement was a unified struggle, that all … Read more

Do you know what it feels like to send your own son to war, knowing he might never come back, … Read more

Ever wonder why a book written by a civil servant tells you more about the birth of a nation than … Read more

You know that feeling when you’re reading a history book and suddenly realize you’re not just learning about the past, … Read more

Why Did the US Government Try to Silence Its Own Diplomat During the Bangladesh Genocide? Archer K. Blood answers to … Read more

Do you really know who first told the world about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, and what it cost him? Most … Read more

Can one book change how you see a nation’s founding heroes forever? This is exactly what happened to me when … Read more

Do you know why a nation born from a war that killed millions still can’t find peace, and why the … Read more

Do you ever wonder why the American Dream feels increasingly out of reach for so many people, even as the … Read more

Can a society truly call itself a democracy when a fraction of one percent holds more wealth than the bottom … Read more

Do you ever read the news and feel like someone is pulling your strings? Do you scroll through social media … Read more

Ever wonder why seemingly rational people end up believing obvious lies? Or what actually happens inside a prisoner’s mind when … Read more

Do you ever wonder why a simple 47-page pamphlet written over 250 years ago still holds the power to make … Read more

Do you ever get the feeling that the news isn’t telling you the whole story? It’s a question that lingers … Read more

Do you ever feel like the political choices on offer—more State or less State, capitalism or communism—are all roads leading … Read more

Ever wonder why you feel like just another cog in the machine, despite living in a democracy? Do you sense … Read more

Do you ever wonder why, despite possessing enough nuclear firepower to destroy the world many times over, the United States … Read more