Book Club
Praxis Book Club – Next Meeting
Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 1pm (Pacific Time)
Books Selected:
A Critique of Pure Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse, Robert Wolff, and Barrington Moore
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa (a repeat)
Previous Book Club Choices
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
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