The Challenges Of Democracy

Kendi, Ibram X.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how "great replacement theory" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age."Kendi argues brilliantly that we must work across race and class lines to eradicate social ills and eliminate fascism...

A. C. Grayling

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common InterestsAs the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's ...

Carlo Masala

A #1 international bestseller from a NATO expert, this deeply researched and chillingly plausible scenario imagines what might happen should Putin defeat Ukraine and not stop there March 2028. Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After a victorious peace deal in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Ba...

Michael Mcfaul

"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." --Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc. "A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"--Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its Discontents The rise of China, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and th...

O'brien, Phillips Payson

A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social power--"vital reading for anyone grappling with America's uncertain place in today's global order" (Alexander Vindman, New York Times-bestselling author of The Folly of Realism) For nearly two...

David Runciman

THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today? In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it.What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did F...

Jonathan Sumption

Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them. ...