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The United States is facing a growing crisis that few fully understand but everyone will ultimately feel: the federal debt. Drawing from a powerful series of essays originally published on Substack, this book breaks down one of the most complex and urgent issues confronting the nation today. With clarity and purpose, it explains how the federal debt has reached levels comparable to at the end of World War II—and why that should concern every American.

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is one of the most influential political pamphlets in American history, a bold and persuasive argument for independence, liberty, and self-government. Written in clear, direct language, Paine’s revolutionary work helped shape public opinion during the American...

Brought to you by Penguin. The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the masses throughout most of human history. This is starkly visible now more than ever—today, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen is larger than any gap that existed during European serfdom or the slave...

Step into one of the most influential political analyses of the 20th century—now newly updated and brought to life in audio. In 1932, Professor Sigmund Neumann published Die Parteien der Weimarer Republik, a groundbreaking study of political parties during a time of global instability. After leaving Germany in 1933, Neumann continued his work in the United States, eventually publishing Permanent Revolution: The Total State of War in 1942—one of the first comprehensive explorations of authoritarianism, fascism, and totalitarianism.

Accanto ai grandi classici della politica, Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli resta ancora oggi uno dei testi più lucidi e spiazzanti sul potere. Come si conquista il potere? Come si mantiene? È meglio essere amati o temuti? Quando è necessario mantenere la parola data, e quando invece è più saggio infrangerla? Scritto all'inizio del Cinquecento, in un'Italia divisa, instabile e attraversata da guerre e intrighi, questo breve trattato analizza senza illusioni i meccanismi reali della politica.

President Trump repeatedly declared that under his leadership the United States had finally become a great nation—free and democratic—while before him everything was in terrible shape. Yet his successor, President Biden, said exactly the same thing, only in the opposite sense.

Words like hegemony, civil society, organic intellectuals, war of position, and interregnum circulate daily in politics, media, and cultural debate. But what do they really mean? Where do they come from? And why do they still matter? This book is not a conventional introduction, nor a simplified guide. It is a conceptual compass for navigating Gramsci’s thought with rigor, clarity, and historical depth.

The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. For many at the time, the outbreak of what would become the First World War was an...

A bold new conception of the republic for a planet in crisis Republicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic reclaims this idea as the...

From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities. No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical Greece, and at its center stood two cities: Athens and Sparta. Side by side, they beat the...

In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, with U.S. backing, deposed Allende. Following a sham investigation and cover-up, a Chilean defector leveled a stunning but ultimately false accusation: a CIA agent was in the room when one of the killings was ordered.

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a tool of innovation—it is the decisive terrain of a new global conflict. As rival powers race to dominate algorithms, data, and digital infrastructure, the world has entered a new AI cold war, one that will determine whether the future is governed by liberty or by machine-enabled tyranny. In The New AI Cold War, national-security analyst and bestselling author Robert L. Maginnis warns that this struggle is not hypothetical.

Brought to you by Penguin. Building requires power and resources – then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize an inclusive process by which as many citizens as possible can...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Kimberlé Crenshaw was five years old in Ohio during the civil rights era, she was the only girl denied a lead role in her nursery play. Puzzled by her teacher's behaviour, she spoke up—and never stopped. That instinct to question power, to challenge what others...

A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe...

Written in plain English, this book explains the major political ideologies without slogans, tribalism, or academic jargon. It focuses on what these belief systems actually say about power, markets, government, and human behavior, not how they are marketed in modern politics.

Face à l'État profond : 10 ans aux Renseignements Généraux de Mitterrand à Sarkozy d'Hubert Marty, est un témoignage autobiographique détaillé sur l'expérience d'un commissaire des Renseignements Généraux (RG) français entre les années 1980 et 2000, abordant des sujets sensibles liés au fonctionnement de l'État, à la police, et à l'influence des réseaux politiques. La narration met l'accent sur des affaires internes, des luttes de pouvoir, et l'impact de l'État profond sur les carrières et la justice en France.

This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers—and what they can teach us about today's most pressing political questions in China and beyond.

Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching...

‘Invites us to learn from those more courageous than ourselves’ TIMOTHY SNYDER ‘Profound … feels essential in these times’ SARAH BAKEWELL ‘This book reminded me how to be brave’ RENI EDDO-LODGE An invigorating guide to fighting back – part philosophy, part history and part how-to...