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Anti‑Scientific Americans: The Prevalence, Origins, and Political Consequences of Anti-Intellectualism in the US
Matthew Motta
Anti‑intellectualism has long been a powerful force in Amerian political life. It has also regularly been the subject of both scholarly and public interest. In Anti-Scientific Americans, Matthew Motta revives Richard Hofstadter’s pioneering insights from the 1960s on the subject and offers new theoretical and data-driven insights.
Anti‑Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in Amerian life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World
James Bernard Murphy and Graeme Garrard
The book explores the timeless questions posed and the answers offered by a diverse group of 30 of the greatest political thinkers who ever lived
China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay
Minxin Pei
Beneath China’s façade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist country in an advanced state of decay
The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion
Jonathan Haidt
Haidt deconstructs Conservative and Liberal (in the US sense) positions into projections of six “moral foundations”
Russia’s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
Anders Aslund
A study of the Russian paradox of the success of capitalism and the failure of democracy.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Satirical attack on a future utopian state.
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
Giovanni Arrighi
A reexamination of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations with China and East Asia taking the reigns of capitalism from the west.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Wilhelm Reich
Repudiates the idea that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality
The Psychology of Politics
Hans J. Eysenck
Dimensions of Personality
Hans J. Eysenck
