Members’ Book Recommendations

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a ‘provocative and compelling’ argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant. Includes a chapter on Deep Canvassing, and why it is so effective.

Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late.

End Times is the culmination of Peter Turchin’s work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.