50 Books like Contesting Democracy

Modern Times

by Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History

Modern Times 96%

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

by Paul Johnson 1983

4.29

3k+ ratings

📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History

Main Currents Of Marxism

by Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

4.25

455

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology

Main Currents Of Marxism 95%

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

by Leszek Kołakowski 2005

4.25

455 ratings

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology

Fascism

by Madeleine K. Albright • 2018

Democracies are dismantled one law at a time. The 1930s playbook is back.

4.25

21k+

🔴 Authoritarian Movements 📜 Fascism History 📉 Democratic Backsliding

Fascism 94%

Democracies are dismantled one law at a time. The 1930s playbook is back.

by Madeleine K. Albright 2018

4.25

21k+ ratings

🔴 Authoritarian Movements 📜 Fascism History 📉 Democratic Backsliding

The Anatomy of Fascism

by Robert O. Paxton • 2004

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

4.22

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🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements

The Anatomy of Fascism 94%

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

by Robert O. Paxton 2004

4.22

6k+ ratings

🔻 Rise Of Fascism 👤 Authoritarian Regimes 👥 Mass Movements

How to Change the World

by Eric J. Hobsbawm • 2011

The regimes that claimed Marx fell. After 2008, his analysis of capitalism became inescapable again.

3.88

988

📜 Marxist Theory 📖 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Theory

How to Change the World 94%

The regimes that claimed Marx fell. After 2008, his analysis of capitalism became inescapable again.

by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2011

3.88

988 ratings

📜 Marxist Theory 📖 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Theory

In the Long Run

by Jonathan White • 2024

The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.

3.78

🗳️ Democratic Theory 📜 Intellectual History 💭 Political Imagination

In the Long Run 94%

The future made democracy possible. Calculated, secret, and algorithmic futures are dismantling it.

by Jonathan White 2024

3.78

85 ratings

🗳️ Democratic Theory 📜 Intellectual History 💭 Political Imagination

The Myth of the State

by Ernst Cassirer • 1946

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

3.90

209

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism

The Myth of the State 94%

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

by Ernst Cassirer 1946

3.90

209 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism

How to Stop Fascism

by Paul Mason • 2021

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

4.05

390

🏛️ History Of Fascism ⚡ Far-Right Ideology 🧠 Ideological Analysis

How to Stop Fascism 93%

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

by Paul Mason 2021

4.05

390 ratings

🏛️ History Of Fascism ⚡ Far-Right Ideology 🧠 Ideological Analysis

What Is Populism?

by Jan-Werner Müller • 2014

Forget anti-elite anger. Populism's core is the claim that opponents are not the real people.

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🗳️ Populism Studies 🏛️ Democratic Theory 🚫 Anti-Pluralism

What Is Populism? 93%

Forget anti-elite anger. Populism's core is the claim that opponents are not the real people.

by Jan-Werner Müller 2014

3.82

3k+ ratings

🗳️ Populism Studies 🏛️ Democratic Theory 🚫 Anti-Pluralism

Realpolitik

by John Bew • 2015

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

3.94

161

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy

Realpolitik 93%

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

by John Bew 2015

3.94

161 ratings

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy

The Age of Capital, 1848–1875

by Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1975

After 1848, capitalism conquered the globe. Railways, gold, and free trade were its weapons.

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🏭 Economic History 🔨 Marxist History 🏗️ Industrial Capitalism

The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 93%

After 1848, capitalism conquered the globe. Railways, gold, and free trade were its weapons.

by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1975

4.27

5k+ ratings

🏭 Economic History 🔨 Marxist History 🏗️ Industrial Capitalism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt • 1951

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

4.30

15k+

🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Origins of Totalitarianism 93%

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

by Hannah Arendt 1951

4.30

15k+ ratings

🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy

America Last

by Jacob Heilbrunn • 2024

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

3.83

246

🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism

America Last 93%

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

by Jacob Heilbrunn 2024

3.83

246 ratings

🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism

Why Liberalism Failed

by Patrick J. Deneen • 2018

Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.

3.84

4k+

🏛️ Political Philosophy 🤝 Communitarianism 🧩 Individualism Critique

Why Liberalism Failed 93%

Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.

by Patrick J. Deneen 2018

3.84

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 🤝 Communitarianism 🧩 Individualism Critique

The Revolution Betrayed

by Leon Trotsky • 1937

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

4.09

2k+

🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy

The Revolution Betrayed 93%

Not socialism, not capitalism. Trotsky charts the third system the Russian Revolution produced.

by Leon Trotsky 1937

4.09

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Theory 💰 Political Economy

The Lost History of Liberalism

by Helena Rosenblatt • 2018

Liberalism was born as duty and generosity. The individual-rights version is only seventy years old.

4.04

448

🏛️ Intellectual History 📜 Political Theory 🫂 Civic Virtue

The Lost History of Liberalism 93%

Liberalism was born as duty and generosity. The individual-rights version is only seventy years old.

by Helena Rosenblatt 2018

4.04

448 ratings

🏛️ Intellectual History 📜 Political Theory 🫂 Civic Virtue

Shitbürgertum

by Ulf Poschardt • 2025

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

3.21

301

🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony

Shitbürgertum 93%

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

by Ulf Poschardt 2025

3.21

301 ratings

🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony

The Ministry of Truth

by Dorian Lynskey • 2019

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

4.12

1k+

📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism

The Ministry of Truth 93%

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

by Dorian Lynskey 2019

4.12

1k+ ratings

📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism

10 Books That Screwed Up the World

by Benjamin Wiker • 2008

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

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1k+

🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism

10 Books That Screwed Up the World Summary

10 Books That Screwed Up the World 93%

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

by Benjamin Wiker 2008

3.43

1k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism

Liberalism and Its Discontents

by Francis Fukuyama • 2022

Liberalism's enemies on left and right agree on one thing. Neither has a workable replacement.

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3k+

🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 📜 Classical Liberalism

Liberalism and Its Discontents 93%

Liberalism's enemies on left and right agree on one thing. Neither has a workable replacement.

by Francis Fukuyama 2022

3.90

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 📜 Classical Liberalism

Unhumans

by Jack Posobiec • 2024

The playbook that toppled societies from Robespierre to Mao is now targeting the West.

3.99

1k+

📜 Communist History ⚔️ Political Warfare 🚫 Anti-Communism

Unhumans 93%

The playbook that toppled societies from Robespierre to Mao is now targeting the West.

by Jack Posobiec 2024

3.99

1k+ ratings

📜 Communist History ⚔️ Political Warfare 🚫 Anti-Communism

Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt • 1968

Tyranny that erases the self: loneliness, ideology, and terror are the engines of totalitarianism.

4.18

843

🏛️ Totalitarianism 📜 Political Theory ☠️ State Terror

Totalitarianism 93%

Tyranny that erases the self: loneliness, ideology, and terror are the engines of totalitarianism.

by Hannah Arendt 1968

4.18

843 ratings

🏛️ Totalitarianism 📜 Political Theory ☠️ State Terror

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

by Ernesto Laclau • 1985

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

3.82

1k+

🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy 93%

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

by Ernesto Laclau 1985

3.82

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy

The Reactionary Mind

by Corey Robin • 2011

Conservatism is the counterrevolution: a history of the right borrowing from the left to defeat it.

3.94

3k+

🏛️ Conservative Thought 🔥 Reactionary Politics 🔄 Counterrevolution

The Reactionary Mind 93%

Conservatism is the counterrevolution: a history of the right borrowing from the left to defeat it.

by Corey Robin 2011

3.94

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Conservative Thought 🔥 Reactionary Politics 🔄 Counterrevolution

Postwar

by Tony Judt • 2005

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

4.38

14k+

🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration

Postwar 93%

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

by Tony Judt 2005

4.38

14k+ ratings

🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration

Intellectuals

by Paul Johnson • 2007

Rousseau, Marx, Sartre: they loved humanity. Their wives, children, and friends knew the truth.

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3k+

🏛️ Intellectual History 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Moral Hypocrisy

Intellectuals 93%

Rousseau, Marx, Sartre: they loved humanity. Their wives, children, and friends knew the truth.

by Paul Johnson 2007

3.87

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Intellectual History 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Moral Hypocrisy

Free Speech

by Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

4.18

500

📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship

Free Speech 93%

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

by Jacob Mchangama 2022

4.18

500 ratings

📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship

The Stillborn God

by Mark Lilla • 2007

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

3.60

289

⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Secularization 🇩🇪 German Philosophy

The Stillborn God 93%

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

by Mark Lilla 2007

3.60

289 ratings

⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Secularization 🇩🇪 German Philosophy

Against the Web

by Michael Brooks • 2020

Internet 'free-thinkers' rebrand old defenses of hierarchy with pseudoscience and myth.

4.10

2k+

🐘 Right-Wing Ideology 💻 Internet Intellectuals 📺 Media Criticism

Against the Web 93%

Internet 'free-thinkers' rebrand old defenses of hierarchy with pseudoscience and myth.

by Michael Brooks 2020

4.10

2k+ ratings

🐘 Right-Wing Ideology 💻 Internet Intellectuals 📺 Media Criticism

The Dialectical Imagination

by Martin Jay • 1973

After the revolutions failed, a circle of Marxists turned their critique from capital to culture.

4.07

423

🏫 Frankfurt School 🧠 Intellectual History ⛏️ Western Marxism

The Dialectical Imagination 93%

After the revolutions failed, a circle of Marxists turned their critique from capital to culture.

by Martin Jay 1973

4.07

423 ratings

🏫 Frankfurt School 🧠 Intellectual History ⛏️ Western Marxism

Age of Anger

by Pankaj Mishra • 2017

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

3.64

3k+

🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique

Age of Anger 92%

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

by Pankaj Mishra 2017

3.64

3k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique

The Road to Unfreedom

by Timothy Snyder • 2018

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

4.37

11k+

🏛️ Modern Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Russian Political Thought 💻 Information Warfare

The Road to Unfreedom 92%

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

by Timothy Snyder 2018

4.37

11k+ ratings

🏛️ Modern Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Russian Political Thought 💻 Information Warfare

Free

by Lea Ypi • 2021

Communism collapsed. Freedom arrived. The pyramid schemes began, and a nation tore itself apart.

4.31

26k+

🏛 Post-Communist Transition 🌍 Balkan History 👧 Coming Of Age Memoir

Free 92%

Communism collapsed. Freedom arrived. The pyramid schemes began, and a nation tore itself apart.

by Lea Ypi 2021

4.31

26k+ ratings

🏛 Post-Communist Transition 🌍 Balkan History 👧 Coming Of Age Memoir

The Socialist Manifesto

by Bhaskar Sunkara • 2019

Capitalism was an accident, socialism a response. A history of what followed, and what comes next.

3.62

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🗳️ Democratic Socialism 📚 Marxism 🏭 Labor History

The Socialist Manifesto 92%

Capitalism was an accident, socialism a response. A history of what followed, and what comes next.

by Bhaskar Sunkara 2019

3.62

2k+ ratings

🗳️ Democratic Socialism 📚 Marxism 🏭 Labor History

Socialism Betrayed

by Roger Keeran • 2004

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

4.37

545

🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis

Socialism Betrayed 92%

The Soviet collapse wasn't inevitable: a pro-market faction inside the Party dismantled it.

by Roger Keeran 2004

4.37

545 ratings

🏛️ Soviet History 📖 Marxist Historiography 🔨 Class Analysis

The Populist Delusion

by Neema Parvini • 2020

Organization inevitably creates oligarchy. Every union, party, and revolution proves it.

4.32

551

🏛️ Elite Theory 🔗 Oligarchy 🏢 Managerialism

The Populist Delusion 92%

Organization inevitably creates oligarchy. Every union, party, and revolution proves it.

by Neema Parvini 2020

4.32

551 ratings

🏛️ Elite Theory 🔗 Oligarchy 🏢 Managerialism

The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich A. Hayek • 1944

Central planning, however noble, destroys liberty, corrupts morals, and elevates the cruel.

4.15

26k+

🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🏫 Austrian Economics 📢 Collectivism Critique

The Road to Serfdom 92%

Central planning, however noble, destroys liberty, corrupts morals, and elevates the cruel.

by Friedrich A. Hayek 1944

4.15

26k+ ratings

🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🏫 Austrian Economics 📢 Collectivism Critique

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

by William L. Shirer • 1984

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

4.08

2k+

📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Summary

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler 92%

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

by William L. Shirer 1984

4.08

2k+ ratings

📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation

Wars and Capital (Semiotext

by Éric Alliez • 2016

Capitalism is a war system that uses markets, not an economic system that uses war.

3.93

🧠 Continental Philosophy 📊 Political Economy ⚔️ War And Capitalism

Wars and Capital (Semiotext 92%

Capitalism is a war system that uses markets, not an economic system that uses war.

by Éric Alliez 2016

3.93

29 ratings

🧠 Continental Philosophy 📊 Political Economy ⚔️ War And Capitalism

The Picnic

by Matthew Longo • 2024

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

4.22

608

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain

The Picnic 92%

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

by Matthew Longo 2024

4.22

608 ratings

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain

Consequences of Capitalism

by Noam Chomsky • 2020

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

4.33

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🏛️ Political Economy 📺 Media Criticism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Consequences of Capitalism 92%

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

by Noam Chomsky 2020

4.33

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 📺 Media Criticism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

The Great Divergence

by Kenneth Pomeranz • 2000

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

3.68

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📚 Comparative History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏫 California School

The Great Divergence 92%

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

by Kenneth Pomeranz 2000

3.68

1k+ ratings

📚 Comparative History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏫 California School

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser • 2019

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

3.93

1k+

🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born Summary

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born 92%

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

by Nancy Fraser 2019

3.93

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics

The Rise of the Outsiders

by Steve Richards • 2017

Outsiders took the West with three forces: globalization's losers, immigration fears, media rage.

3.69

150

🗳️ Populism 🏛️ Democratic Decline 🔄 Political Realignment

The Rise of the Outsiders 92%

Outsiders took the West with three forces: globalization's losers, immigration fears, media rage.

by Steve Richards 2017

3.69

150 ratings

🗳️ Populism 🏛️ Democratic Decline 🔄 Political Realignment

The Future of Freedom

by Fareed Zakaria • 2003

Democracy without courts, rights, and restraints is just a machine for producing elected strongmen.

4.02

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🗳️ Democratic Theory ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Future of Freedom 92%

Democracy without courts, rights, and restraints is just a machine for producing elected strongmen.

by Fareed Zakaria 2003

4.02

4k+ ratings

🌐 Comparative Politics 🗳️ Democratic Theory ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Simpsons and Philosophy

by William Irwin • 2001

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

3.45

4k+

📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism

The Simpsons and Philosophy 92%

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

by William Irwin 2001

3.45

4k+ ratings

📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism

Buckley

by Carl T. Bogus • 2011

To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.

3.75

151

🗽 Modern Conservatism ❄️ Cold War Ideology 📚 Intellectual History

Buckley 92%

To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.

by Carl T. Bogus 2011

3.75

151 ratings

🗽 Modern Conservatism ❄️ Cold War Ideology 📚 Intellectual History

The Theological Origins of Modernity

by Michael Allen Gillespie • 2008

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

4.23

270

📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy

The Theological Origins of Modernity Summary

The Theological Origins of Modernity 92%

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

by Michael Allen Gillespie 2008

4.23

270 ratings

📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy

The Case for Colonialism

by Bruce Gilley • 2023

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

4.32

191

📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History

The Case for Colonialism 92%

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

by Bruce Gilley 2023

4.32

191 ratings

📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History

The Visionaries

by Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

3.91

1k+

👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism

The Visionaries 92%

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

by Wolfram Eilenberger 2020

3.91

1k+ ratings

👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism

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