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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,159 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
    • By: Jacques Ellul
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • From one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century comes a seminal study and critique of propaganda. Taking not only a psychological approach but a sociological approach as well, Jacques Ellul outlines the taxonomy for propaganda and, ultimately, its destructive nature....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,737 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    • By: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120 ratings
    • Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that the news media defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society....

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    • Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage"....

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    • Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    • By: Caroline Criado Perez
    • Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,352 ratings
    • Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 971 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
    • By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,141 ratings
    • Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, builds his case point by point, comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy....

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    • A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
    • By: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Danko
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported....

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    • How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
    • By: Owen Strachan
    • Narrated by: Axel Bosley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • This short theologically sound primer is a resource for pastors, ministry leaders, community leaders, and other thinking Christians that explains carefully and clearly what critical race theory and wokeness truly are....

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,803 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 698 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • Four Speeches
    • By: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 973 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
    • By: David K. Johnson
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated claims that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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