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    • How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
    • By: Mick West
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • Author Mick West shares over a decade's worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are....

    $17.16 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 2,161 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...

    $20.00 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

    $25.79 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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....

    $19.74 or free with your Plus trial

    • 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
    • By: Karen Arrington
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Channel your Black-girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....

    $11.17 or free with your Plus trial

    • Paging Through History
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
    • By: Christopher A. Bail
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online, Breaking the Social Media Prism shows how to combat online polarization without deleting our accounts....

    $13.75 or free with your Plus trial

    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,195 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,663 ratings
    • In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs....

    $12.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
    • By: Mark Bauerlein
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Let's take stock of young America.....

    $15.47 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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....

    $25.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
    • By: John R. Hale
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come....

    $18.05 or free with your Plus trial

    • 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 1,121 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....

    $17.62 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World—and What We Can Do
    • By: Steven Brill
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A best-selling author documents how facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts....

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
    • By: David Enrich
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to silence dissent and protect the powerful.

    $24.29 or free with 30-day trial