Recommended reading
Following are some books that I recommend. For more information, you can click on any that interest you.
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
Pico Iyer takes us on a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
read moreHow Democracies Die
Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes.
read moreLa Vieja: A Journal of Fire
Part dream, part real, part memoir, Deena Metzger’s La Vieja blurs the boundaries between human consciousness and animal consciousness, of imagination and reality, to create a “Journal of Fire,” a recording of the process of living with the constant threat of the destruction of the natural world.
read moreSubtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump
Historian Karen J. Greenberg describes how policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself
read moreUncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets And Rising Together
Valeria Aloe’s Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming our Mindsets and Rising Together lays out a detailed map of the Latino mindset and what is holding the community back from achieving its highest potential.
read moreFrom Self-Talk to Soul-Talk: Becoming More of Who You Truly Are
Russell Bishop’s From Self-Talk to Soul-Talk: Becoming More of Who You Truly Are offers a profound yet practical guide for living your best life, to living a Soul-Centered life and a practical framework from which we can learn and grow.
read moreThe Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
In this short primer, Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it’s headed and why it threatens democracy.
read moreRising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here
Anthony R. DiMaggio explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U.S. politics and explores social movements such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter for mobilizing the public.
read moreThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
#1 New York Times bestseller, The 1619 Project is a wide-ranging, landmark summary of the Black experience in America: searing, exploring every aspect of slavery and its continuing legacy, in which being white or Black affects everything from how you fare in courts and hospitals and schools to the odds that your neighborhood will be bulldozed for a freeway.
read moreHow Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Leading political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.
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