Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
The most popular political theory books of 2020
Political theory asks how we should live together. Democracy, liberty, justice, equality and the limits of the state have been argued over for centuries, and the arguments are all here. Read the classic texts, guides to the major ideologies and thinkers working on these questions today. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Blackout
Candace Owens, Larry Elder
2020 · 2045 edition
320 pages
Irreversible Damage
Abigail Shrier
Published 2020
256 pages
Twilight of Democracy The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum
2020 · 2021 edition
224 pages
Eat the Buddha Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Barbara Demick
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Tyranny of Merit What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
Funny Weather Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Strongmen
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
2020 · 2021 edition
400 pages
How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson
Published 2020
272 pages
Live Not by Lies A Manual for Christian Dissidents
Rod Dreher
Published 2020
256 pages
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Ben Shapiro
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
The Parasitic Mind
Gad Saad
Published 2020
256 pages
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
2020 · 2023 edition
336 pages
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Mud Sweeter Than Honey Voices of Communist Albania
Margo Rejmer
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Ratline The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Philippe Sands
2020 · 2022 edition
448 pages
Slow Down
Kohei Saito
2020 · 2025 edition
264 pages
Trust America's Best Chance
Pete Buttigieg
2020 · 2021 edition
224 pages
Don't Burn This Book Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
Dave Rubin
Published 2020
240 pages
Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade, Pamela Cappas-Toro
Published 2020
128 pages
Feminism, Interrupted Disrupting Power
Lola Olufemi
Published 2020
148 pages
It Was All a Lie How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart Stevens
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Our Malady Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Timothy Snyder, Maria Llopis Freixas
Published 2020
192 pages