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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Books About Books)
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Tom Roston
3.69 avg rating — 299 ratings 3. 
Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
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Roger Kimball
3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings 3. 
Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
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Thomas Powers
3.61 avg rating — 118 ratings 5. 
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
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Roger Kimball
3.76 avg rating — 190 ratings 5. 
Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism
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Thomas E. Joiner
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 25 ratings 7. 
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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Thomas Sowell
4.32 avg rating — 4,546 ratings 
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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Thomas Sowell
4.40 avg rating — 3,313 ratings 
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False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating — 1,345 ratings 
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
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Marion Nestle
3.94 avg rating — 4,625 ratings 17. 
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
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Chris Hedges
3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings 17. 
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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Richard Kluger
3.92 avg rating — 290 ratings 19. 
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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Ross Douthat
3.77 avg rating — 2,472 ratings 19. 
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating — 4,809 ratings 21. 
Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried
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Ethan Watters
3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak
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Christopher Cerf
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings 27. 
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq 4.12 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Kurt Andersen
4.09 avg rating — 8,698 ratings 31. 
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
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Steve Coll
4.21 avg rating — 4,312 ratings 33. 
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
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Andrew Keen
2.83 avg rating — 1,168 ratings 33. 
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
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Michael Hastings
3.93 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 35. 
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
by:
Sarah Chayes
4.11 avg rating — 1,050 ratings 
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Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of Americas
by:
James Hodge
4.46 avg rating — 35 ratings 38. 
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by:
Jeanne Theoharis
4.32 avg rating — 757 ratings 39. 
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
by:
Larry Gonick
4.30 avg rating — 400 ratings 41. 
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
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Angela Stent
4.18 avg rating — 841 ratings