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Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny
4.2
10 min
Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost
4.2
15 min
Irin Carmon
Notorious RBG
4.2
20 min
Sonia Purnell
A Woman of No Importance
4.2
28 min
Alice Schroeder
The Snowball
4.2
17 min
Peter Frankopan
The Silk Roads
4.2
20 min
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Too Big to Fail
4.2
14 min
Rutger Bregman
Utopia for Realists
4.2
22 min
Seneca
On the Shortness of Life
4.2
11 min
Steve Brusatte
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
4.2
27 min
Ron Chernow
Titan
4.2
17 min
Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death
4.2
8 min
Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism
4.2
13 min
Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now
4.2
14 min
Sam Quinones
Dreamland
4.2
20 min
Roger Lowenstein
When Genius Failed
4.2
14 min
Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature
4.2
21 min
Epictetus
The Art of Living
4.2
12 min
Steven Levitsky
How Democracies Die
4.2
20 min
Ben Macintyre
A Spy Among Friends
4.2
20 min
Bethany Mclean
The Smartest Guys in the Room
4.2
17 min
William B. Irvine
A Guide to the Good Life
4.2
31 min
Andrew Roberts
Napoleon the Great
4.2
20 min
Albert Einstein
Relativity
4.2
21 min
Alan Watts
The Way of Zen
4.2
18 min
Edward S. Herman
Manufacturing Consent
4.2
17 min
David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything
4.2
13 min
Dan Jones
The Plantagenets
4.2
18 min
Edwin Lefèvre
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
4.2
14 min
Naomi Klein
Doppelganger
4.2
12 min