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In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities...
Fareed Zakaria
Mar 08, 2020
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word
How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade
From former Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States Fred P. Hochberg comes an illuminating and engaging tutorial on the basics of modern trade. Tradethe exchange that powers the worldallows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we dont. In the age of globalization, trade has joined together more people t...
Fareed Zakaria
Feb 23, 2020From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our age in human history, so superficially turbulent, is actually defined by stagnation, repetition, deadlocks, and decayToday the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper r...
Fareed Zakaria
Feb 16, 2020Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides ...
Fareed Zakaria
Feb 12, 2020
Prisoners of Geography
Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place)
In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments o...
Fareed Zakaria
Dec 08, 2019Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects theyve come to so intimately know and under...
Fareed Zakaria
Dec 01, 2019
Don't Be Evil
How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
A penetrating indictment of how todays largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our mindsfrom an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst Dont be evil was enshrined as Googles corporate mantra back in its early days, when the companys cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a fut...
Fareed Zakaria
Nov 10, 2019Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on EarthBig Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All Rachel Maddow’s Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey...
Fareed Zakaria
Oct 30, 2019Also recommended by
Su Mohan
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal - that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rat...
Fareed Zakaria
Oct 06, 2019Also recommended by
Branko MilanovicBrought to you by Penguin.The highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History. With original archival interviews and musical scoring, this enhanced audiobook edition of Talking to Strangers brings Gladwell's renowned storytelling to life in his unparalleled narrating style. The routine traffic...
Fareed Zakaria
Sep 22, 2019
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
"No matter your politics or home country this will change how you think about the movement of people between poor and rich countries...one of the best books on immigration written in a generation." --Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino...
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Aug 20, 2019The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent
Destined for War by Graham Allison
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
Lee Kuan Yew by Graham Allison
The World Is Flat 3.0 by Thomas L. Friedman