A curated reading journey through democratic erosion, truth, and resilience, blending urgent recent voices with timeless analysis.
created by Pipsy
last updated October, 2025
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Peter Pomerantsev
The Authoritarians
Bob Altemeyer
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Gordon S. Wood
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason F. Stanley
Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
Martin Baron
The Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges
Suicide of the West
Richard Koch
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
Jonah Goldberg
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
Stephen Marche
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama
How Democracy Ends
David Runciman
The Free Society in Crisis: A History of Our Times
David Selbourne
Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself
Rob Goodman
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
Yascha Mounk
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Steven Levitsky
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Anne Applebaum
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
Edward Luce
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Michiko Kakutani
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Jonathan Rauch
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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