Women and Leadership

Why is it important for women to be leaders? How can women transform power? What is the link between women’s empowerment and a healthy society?

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

History

What can history teach us about how power operates? What are the histories of peoples whose power has been systematically denied? What does it mean to be categorized as “nobody”? How is mass incarceration America’s “current state of emergency”?

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz

Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

Science and Technology

How does science intersect with spirituality? What is the “ideological fervor” blocking solutions to the climate crisis? How does new technology threaten to “bleach away the variety of human experience”?

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out by Bill McKibben

Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing And Working With Fungi by Peter McCoy

Hate Crimes in Cyberspace by Danielle Citron

The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Politics and Society

How can we build “more robust, egalitarian institutions” with the power to change the world? What are the social, economic, and political consequences of globalization? What values does American culture endorse?

The Second Mountain: The Next Big Challenge in Your Life by David Brooks

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer

Power, Pleasure and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton

The Third Pillar: How Markets and The State are Leaving Communities Behind by Raghuram Rajan

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Making All Black Lives Matter Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby

Literature

How does literature mimic reality? What is the price of writing truth to power? What is the cost of remaining silent? What does it mean to find your purpose?

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Those Who Knew: A Novel by Idra Novey

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon

Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan

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