For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

7 best books like For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Christopher Hitchens): Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, To the Finland Station, The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story, Girl with Curious Hair

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0316409138
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN1787631214
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.

Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve...
AuthorDouglas E. Harding
ISBN1878019198
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming fully aware of one's real and abiding nature. Douglas Harding, the highly respected mystic-philosopher, describes his first experience of headlessness in "On...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0060845503
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN1590170334
Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned...
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
AuthorJoy-Ann Reid
ISBN0062880144
Read by the author

Is Donald Trump running the “longest con” in U.S. history?

What will be left of America when he leaves office?

Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country’s founding principles. Now in office, he’s put...
Girl with Curious Hair
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
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