A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy

7 best books like A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy (Harvey Mansfield): Apology, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense, Siege: Trump Under Fire, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible, A History of Modern Iran

Apology

Author	Plato
ISBN	0865163480

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier...

The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

Author

Ben Shapiro

America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate. In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Author	Alasdair MacIntyre
ISBN	0268006113

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Author	N.T. Wright
ISBN	0060507152

Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are relationships often so painful? And how will the world be made right? These are not simply perennial questions all generations must struggle with, but, according to N. T. Wright, are the very echoes of a voice...

Siege: Trump Under Fire

Author	Michael Wolff
ISBN	1250253829

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and...

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

Author	E. Randolph Richards
ISBN	0830837825

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:

When Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly,"...

A History of Modern Iran

Author	Ervand Abrahamian
ISBN	0521528917

In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country...