We the Presidents: How a Century of Presidents from Harding to Trump Forged Today’s America by Ronald Gruner is an updated version of a book first published in 2022. This update includes a section on the Biden presidency as well as the current second presidency...

Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People by Shira Sebban follows Vietnamese asylum seekers returned from Australia after arriving by sea, beginning with Tran Thi Thanh Loan, a Catholic mother facing prison in Vietnam after officials sent her family back. Sebban enters the case through a newspaper...

Human Nature, Systems, and Christianity by Huizhen Sheng explores how the way we run our countries and economies comes right out of the inner workings of our minds. Sheng explains that our brains are split between a survival-driven side, which is basically the biological root...

The Department of Obvious Reforms by Ram Rajcoomar is a manifesto on how to turn public policy into a simple exchange between state and citizen: reduce public cost, then receive public reward. Ram builds that case through reforms that treat responsibility as something recorded, priced,...

How Many Is Enough? The Defining Issue of the 21st Century presents Valorie M. Allen’s case that population growth is behind the environmental pressures now shaping daily life. The book explains why cleaner technology cannot solve the problem on its own, since every additional person...

FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court by Alex Charns is one of those rare books that reads like a legal thriller. Charns, a criminal defense attorney who spent over four decades pursuing secret FBI files through federal courts, reveals how J....

Edouard Prisse’s Sleeping With the Enemy is a political and economic commentary that examines China’s rise as a global power and argues that Western trade policies helped create the current imbalance between democratic nations and the Chinese government. The book centers on the belief that...

Dr. Rick Bein’s Eat or Be Eaten follows a continuing argument about the future of human life on a damaged planet. Drawing from decades spent beside farming communities, he examines the belief that nature survives best when people are connected to the land that feeds...

In Blood and Gold, Christie Sikora makes the argument that the Munich Olympics are proof that political violence cannot be separated from history. The author says the hostage crisis grew from decades of Palestinian displacement after 1948, from Cold War rivalries, from Western intervention across...

In Matricide: The Denigration of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, Joanne Callahan talks about how the women who secured female voting rights are remembered and makes the argument that recognition has not matched the actual scale of their impact. She takes us through how monuments,...