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Indignity: A Life Reimagined 11 reviews Lea Ypi 2025-11-03
On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality 6 reviews Justin Smith-Ruiu Mark Dery 2025-11-03
Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need 6 reviews David Edmonds Becca Rothfeld 2025-09-22
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois 2 reviews Robert Gooding-Williams Becca Rothfeld 2025-06-02
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 16 reviews Agnes Callard Quill R. Kukla 2025-02-03
The Word of Dog: What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us about Living a Good Life 4 reviews Mark Rowlands Becca Rothfeld 2025-01-13
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society Joseph E. Stiglitz Jennifer Burns 2024-06-03
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind 7 reviews Clancy Martin Jamieson Webster 2023-05-15
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life 5 reviews Jonathan Lear Daniel Oppenheimer 2022-11-14
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders Massimo Pigliucci Michael S. Roth 2022-10-17
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy 19 reviews David Chalmers Jess Keiser 2022-02-14
On The Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer Michael Dirda 2021-01-25
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers 2 reviews Lucinda Robb 2020-09-28
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life 8 reviews John Kaag James T. Kloppenberg 2020-05-11
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard 2 reviews 2020-05-04
The History of Philosophy 8 reviews A.C. Grayling Michael Dirda 2019-11-25
Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia 4 reviews Jeffrey Paul Maurice Cranston 1981-10-18
Philosophical Explanations 12 reviews Robert Nozick Maurice Cranston 1981-10-18
The Tyranny of Big Tech 9 reviews Josh Hawley
The Tyranny of Big Tech 9 reviews Josh Hawley
The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris 3 reviews Peter Beinart
Capital and Ideology 23 reviews Thomas Piketty
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism 13 reviews Anne Case
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game 12 reviews C. Thi Nguyen Becca Rothfeld
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia 12 reviews Philippe Sands Lily Meyer
The Secret of Secrets 6 reviews Dan Brown Ron Charles
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece 4 reviews James Romm Becca Rothfeld
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion 7 reviews Frédéric Gros Alexander Stern
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus 12 reviews Elaine Pagels Ron Charles
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America 6 reviews Erik Baker Becca Rothfeld
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North 9 reviews Michelle Adams Michael Bobelian
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 16 reviews Agnes Callard Quill R. Kukla
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church 11 reviews Eliza Griswold Ayana Mathis
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World 12 reviews Anne Applebaum Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative 7 reviews Glenn Loury John McMillian
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide 4 reviews Samir Chopra Becca Rothfeld
Who's Afraid of Gender? 12 reviews Judith Butler Becca Rothfeld
The Book of Love 16 reviews Kelly Link Ron Charles
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon 19 reviews Adam Shatz Becca Rothfeld
Same Bed Different Dreams 10 reviews Ed Park Sophia Nguyen
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights 7 reviews Dylan C. Penningroth Matthew F. Delmont
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made 7 reviews Cliff Sloan Michael Bobelian
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth 5 reviews Jennifer Banks Becca Rothfeld
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future 14 reviews Patrick J Deneen Becca Rothfeld
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church 7 reviews Rachel L. Swarns Ana Lucia Araujo
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality 9 reviews David Edmonds Oliver Traldi
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope 12 reviews Sarah Bakewell Mark Oppenheimer
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy 6 reviews Alex Mar Rosa Brooks
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable 7 reviews Joanna Schwartz Paul Butler
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives 7 reviews Robert D. Richardson Diane Cole
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