Political Thought

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    • By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard Whatmore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
    • By: Alan Ryan
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....

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    • Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay
    • By: Joseph W. Pearson
    • Narrated by: Eddie Frierson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Whigs' America, Joseph W. Pearson explores a variety of topics, including the Whigs' understanding of the role of the individual in American politics, their perceptions of political power and the rule of law, and their impressions of the past....

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    • Eight Exercises in Political Thought
    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy....

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    • Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across....

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    • Essays in Objectivist Thought
    • By: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise....

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    • From the Intellectual to the Political
    • By: Quassim Cassam
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices....

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    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,364 ratings
    • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

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    • And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
    • By: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,419 ratings
    • If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would sound something like this....

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    • Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    • By: Eric Hoffer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

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    • A Libertarian History of Political Thought
    • By: Ralph Raico
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 06-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Struggle for Liberty gives us vintage Ralph Raico in his roles of lecturer and professor. In these lectures he weaves together the daily life ...

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    • The Rise of Stupidity and the Collapse of Thought in Modern America
    • By: Southerland Publishing
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Why do the least capable now lead the most powerful? Why is brilliance punished and conformity rewarded? And why does modern America, once a beacon...

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    • Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
    • By: W. Kamau Bell
    • Narrated by: W. Kamau Bell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,760 ratings
    • You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America....

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    • The Elite Charade of Changing the World
    • By: Anand Giridharadas
    • Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,147 ratings
    • Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....

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    • Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
    • By: Richard Rorty
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe, has answered "yes" in both word and deed....

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    • Thoughts After Liberalism
    • By: John Gray
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments....

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    • Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
    • By: Spencer Klavan
    • Narrated by: Spencer Klavan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • The fate of our civilization depends on whether ordinary people internalize the truth and beauty conveyed in the masterpieces of Western culture. Spencer Klavan, classicist and podcaster, defends that culture and explains why and how we must hand it on to the next generation....

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