History & Theory

The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....

Jonathan Turley takes a timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others....

Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....

Acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession....

In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times....

The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe....

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion....

A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering....

Party hollowness lies at the heart of our democratic discontents. With historical sweep and political acuity, The Hollow Parties offers answers to pressing questions about how the nation's parties became so dysfunctional-and how they might yet realize their promise.

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places....

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....

In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....

Professors Schweikart and Allen have revised, updated, and expanded their book, which covers America's long history with an appreciation for the values that made this nation uniquely successful....

Jane Mayer traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy....

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....

In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

From one of the most admired international leaders comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses....

This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy....

What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....

America Without Limits explores history, science, and religion in order to find a way to break away from the constraints upon the United States in order for it to truly reach its fully potential as a nation and as a world leader.

History in the House looks at the temperaments, ideas, imagination, prejudices, intentions and influence of a select and self-regulated group of men who taught modern history at Christ Church: Frederick York Powell, Arthur Hassall, Keith Feiling, J. C. Masterman, Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker, and Hugh Trevor-Roper (a Victorian radical, a staunch legitimist of the protestant settlement, a conservative, a Whig, a Keynesian, a socialist, and a contrarian).

Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment to the right of free expression in history. Yet there is a systemic effort to bar opposing viewpoints on subjects ranging from racial discrimination to police abuse, from climate change to gender equity. The Indispensable Right places the current attacks on free speech in their proper historical, legal, and political context.

If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread philosophical assumptions with reactionary sources. As a result, wokeism conflicts with ideas that have guided the left for more than 200 years.

This book explains the historical roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs, which has lost none of its explosiveness to the present day, in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner. The question of who owns the Holy Land is more relevant today than ever. The debates on this topic are often characterized by ignorance and strong emotions, while partiality and power interests still obscure the view on the political situation in the Middle East.

It doesn’t seem right that the well-being of a few should take precedence over the well-being of many, let alone the vast majority of our citizens. The downward spiral of America is gaining momentum and our freedoms are being stolen each day. Our children are being exploited. Our American civilization is imploding. Our cities are sinking into third world crime havens. Our borders are like torn sieves. Our own sovereignty and its importance is evaporating.

Dive into an enlightening exploration of Marx's historical materialism, simplified and tailored for the 21st-century reader. "Chains & Change" isn't just a historical overview; it's a vibrant journey through the very fabric of society, revealing how Marx's ideas shape and influence the world we live in today. With engaging narratives, relatable examples, and a jargon-free approach, this book breaks down complex concepts, making them accessible to everyone, regardless of their familiarity with Marx. Discover the modern applications of Marx's ideas, from environmentalism to digital economies,...

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means.

A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness is a Rabbinic saying derived from the Talmud and this applied to the identification and exposure of Satan and the satanic influence both within each of us and in our societies. Charles Moscowitz describes this influence as a satanic conspiracy which, he claims, lurks within the shadows of history from ancient times until the present. Satanism is a rejection of God and creation and, as such, a rejection of that which is good, natural, moral and real. Just as mob syndicates form secret criminal societies, the satanic conspiracy thrives ...

This book contains major contributions on Dante, Machiavelli, a six part series on the self-directed creative evolution of the human species, and other works. Its theme is the creativity and nobility of the human identity. Man the discoverer, Man the inventor, Man the composer. It stands in contrast to the bestial view of humanity which is now rampant in our culture. Table of Contents: Section I—Creating a Republic 1. Dante Alighieri and the New Paradigm for Human Culture 2. Machiavelli, the New World and the Republic 3. You’re Human! Do You Know What That Means? 4. Vignettes on ...

The 1% foment Culture War among the 99% to distract & cover their real economic motives. Class War is disguised as Culture War. And Civil War, which looms in America now, is Class War manifest. *Culture War, Class War 2022—Truth & Generations* is about what transpired in America over the last 70 years to bring it to its current crisis. We see how Americans’ minds, personalities, beliefs, and daily lives were orchestrated to a tune not theirs but one that was sweet and harmonious to the profit-takers. Much has happened since the First Edition of *Culture War, Class War* in 2013. For the ...

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.

In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly became the focus of global attention as a random cross-section of defeated nationalists, including President Chiang Kai-shek, fled there from Mao's triumphant Communist forces.

America Betrayed restores the true history of America’s achievements and its role as a beacon of freedom. Framed by an account of Martin Luther’s history and ideas, David Horowitz demonstrates that racial progress in America originates not from Leftist policy but from its founding ideals. America Betrayed is a history and a manifesto focused on the current war to save our country and restore the dignity and freedom of the individual.

America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding.