Book Club

Praxis Book Club – Next Meeting

Sunday, November 10, 1pm (Pacific Time)
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi
Extra Selection: Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin

Previous Book Club Choices

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

How the World Ran Out of Everything by Peter S. Goodman

Shadow Network by Anne Nelson

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

The Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria

The Reproduction of Evil by Sue Grant

The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges

Is Science Enough by Aviva Chomsky

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson

The Story is in Our Bones by Osprey Orielle Lake

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy by Lee McIntyre

The Squad by Ryan Grim

The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa

Civilizing the State: Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good by John Restakis

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilcrest

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk

The Coming Wave by Moustafa Suleyman

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Donut Economics by Kate Raworth

The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (3rd Edition) by John Perkins

Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation by Paul Hawken

No Miracles Needed by Mark Z. Jacobson

The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

Chip Wars by Chris Miller

Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff

War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin & Nicholas J.S. Davies

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner

A Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate

The Hidden History of Neoliberalism by Thom Hartmann

Existential Physics by Sabine Hossenfelder

American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn

We Own the Future by Kate Aronoff

Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff

Captured by Sheldon Whitehouse (U.S. Senator)

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman

The Climate Coup by Mark Alizar

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

Humane by Samuel Moyn

Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood

The 1619 Project by N. Hannah-Jones, C. Roper, I. Silverman and J. Silberstein

Deep Adaptation – Edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Colbert

The Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael Mann

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom by Jeremy Lent

By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution by David Talbot and Margaret Talbot

The Theft of History by Jack Goody

Out of the Ether by Matthew Lessig

The Trouble With Diversity by Walter Benn Michaels

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Learning From the Germans by Susan Neiman

Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley by Rob Larson

Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen

Targeted by Brittany Kaiser

The Green New Deal by Jeremy Rifkin

Against the Web by Michael Brooks

The Lewis Powell Memo

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow

Mindf•ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plan to Break America by Christopher Wylie

The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg

Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America by Ian Haney López

The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot

The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel

Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

Falter by Bill McKibben

Fault Lines by Gus diZerega

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges

Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall by Gayle McLaughlin

Post Capitalism: A Guide to the Future by Paul Mason

Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War by H. Bruce Franklin

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

War on Peace by Ronan Farrow

Comeback California by Narda Zacchino

How Democracies Die by Stephen Levitsky

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman

Against Charity by Julie Wark and Daniel Raventós

The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff

The Village Against the World by Dan Hancox

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent

No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming – Edited by Paul Hawken

Green Capitalism: The God that Failed by Richard Smith

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

Roles for Revolutionaries by Becky Bond and Zack Exley

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders

The Moral Equivalent of War by William James

Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer by Phyllis Bennie

Daybreak by David Swanson

War is a Lie by David Swanson

New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins (Pub. 2016)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff

Blowing

the Roof Off the 21st Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy by Robert W. McChesney

Listen Yankee: Why Cuba Matters by Tom Hayden

This Changes Everything: The Climate versus Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier

The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity by Ellen Brown

The Crash of 2016 by Thom Hartmann

What Then Must We Do by Gar Alperowitz

The “S” Word by John Nichols

Articles on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism, Ed. Georgia Kelly, co-authors: Ben Boyce, Nick Colby, Gus diZerega, Julianne Maurseth, and Barry Spector.

The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford

A Shared Market Economy: A Classical Liberal Rethinks the Market System by Dwight Murphy

The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws in an Obsolete System by Jerry Mander

Transition to Peace by Russ Faure-Brac

Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank

Participatory Democracy: From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street by Tom Hayden (an article published in The Nation magazine)

This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs

Eros & Civilization by Herbert Marcuse

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

New Paths to Socialism by Carl Davidson

Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence by Barry Spector

The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges

Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges

The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin

The Future is up to us by Nelson Peery

Salmon Economics by Andrew Kimbrell

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization by Tom Greco

The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos by Ravi Batra

Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten

Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz

The End of America by Naomi Wolf

Is There no Other Way? The Search for a Non-Violent Future by Michael Nagler

The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman