Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism Bob Kuttner has been on my radar screen since I was a college student when [...]
Tom Peters The Excellence Dividend I have been a Tom Peters fan since he published In Search of Excellence in [...]
Daniel Coyle The Culture Code In my work in comparative politics, I emphasize political culture morethan most other textbooks authors. [...]
Yasha Mounk The People vs. Democracy Yascha Mounk burst onto the political science scene a couple of years ago when [...]
Amy Chua Political Tribes I thought about not reviewing Amy Chua’s Political Tribes now because a cancelled meeting means I will [...]

Steven Pinker Enllightenment Now Steven Pinker is one of the most influential public intellectuals of the early twenty-first century. [...]
Christopher Browning Ordinary Men I was fortunate to attend Oberlin College in the late 1960s where I learned a lot [...]
Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and the Holocaust I first read Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust when it first came [...]
Dacher Keltner The Power Paradox Political scientists usually define power as A’s ability to get B to do something [...]
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Like most political scientists and many citizens, I'm worried about the [...]
United Nations and World Bank Pathways to Peace Technically, Pathways to Peace is not a book. It is an ambitious [...]

Jeff and Staney DeGraff The Innovation Code I have an intriguing title that I love. Senior Fellow for Innovation at [...]
AJ Jacobs As a peacebuilder and political scientist, I get to read a lot of depressing books. So, when [...]
Who Can You Trust? As a comparative political scientist and peacebuilder, I have to be interested in trust, and [...]

Dan Drezner Theories of International Relations and Zombies I was sitting in the bar after a recent conference and [...]
Alan Jacobs How to Think I'm not sure why I decided to read Alan Jacobs' How to Think, but I'm [...]
ROBERT PUTNAM, Our Kids I have been a fan of Bob Putnam and his work since he was a [...]
EJ DIONNE, NORMAN ORSTEIN, AND THOMAS MANN One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, and the Not-Yet Deported [...]
MUHAMMAD YUNUS, A World of Three Zeros Many people were surprised when Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the [...]