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A librarian tells her story of being on the front lines of the far right wing assault on libraries and knowledge.

This book, writes reviewer Alpert, is "a powerful account of our failures to stop the war in Gaza, despite the professed worth we place on values like empathy.

This book looks at previously under examined aspects of Arendt's thinking, especially regarding issues of love, gender, and race, in order to probe more deeply into the work of one of the 20th century's most celebrated political thinkers.

Author Montell analyzes the social science of cult influence and how leaders of cults use language to exercise power. Reviewer Gerber uses her own childhood cult experience as a window into this complex topic.

Reviewer Steigmann-Gall considers what took so long for so many, including some left wing public intellectuals, to publicly acknowledge that Trumpism is fascism.

This book is a detailed history of an aspect of modern European history and the treaty that catalyzed that story.

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

The focus of the book is on Dominic Ongwen, a former soldier in the cultish army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ongwen had been kidnapped by the LRA when he was nine years old and transformed into a soldier and criminal...

This book, writes reviewer Bader, "probes the ways Christian nationalism is marketed" to boys, "and exposes the misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia that are its stock and trade."