Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg.
Goldberg examines how the ideas of democracy and liberty are at odds with our baser instincts so need to be re-learned and shored up, or lost. And since he can quote Game of Thrones as comfortably as John Locke, I'm entertained and educated!
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I've heard good things about this book!
ReplyDeleteAfter our little Twitter exchange, I definitely want to read this one.
ReplyDeleteThis one definitely caught my attention. I'm going to check out the audio version.
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Came looking for artistic apple couldn't find it. Looked pretty on P. Roth's book. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis one is calling to me also. Audio would be my choice too.
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