Of Boys and Men: why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it by Richard V. Reeves
America and the Pill: a history of promise, peril, and liberation by Elaine Tyler May
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin
The 1988 six-part PBS series “The Power of Myth” by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case & Angus Deaton
White Working Class; overcoming cluelessness in America by Joan Williams
Dream Hoarders: how the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust by Richard Reeves
Cobalt Red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives by Siddharth Kara
New England Bound: slavery and colonization in early America by Wendy Warren
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt
Talking to Strangers: what we should know about the people we don’t know by Malcolm Gladwell
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
1776 by David McCullough
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin, segments 3 & 4
Citizenship in a Republic, a 1910 speech given in Paris by Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin, segments 1 & 2
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Other America: poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington
Gang Leader for a Day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
Freedom For Thought That We Hate: A Biography of The First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Man Who Fed The World by Leon Hesser
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
The Vibrational Universe by Kenneth James Michael MacLean
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
A vindication of the rights of women and a vindication of the rights of men by Mary Wollstonecraft
Cultural Evolution: Peoples’ Motivations are Changing and Reshaping the World by Ronald F. Inglehart
The Monarchy of Fear by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Goodness Paradox: the Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
Smoketown: the Untold Story of the Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
