Table of Contents

• Books (5)
• Readings (8)
• Audio/Video (21)
• Related Topics (1)

Books (5)

Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) – Claudia Rankine

Notes of a Native Son (1955) – James Baldwin

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) – Jared Diamond

Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (2017) – Malcolm Harris

Just Us: An American Conversation (2020) – Claudia Rankine

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Readings (8)

Giving money away makes us happy. Then why do so few of us do it? (2014) – Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson

Hacking Relationships (2019) – Joseph Reagle

Widespread Misperceptions of Long-Term Attitude Change (2022) – Adam Mastroianni and Jason Dana

The Revolutionary Thoreau (2020) – R. H. Lossin

Morality (1965) – Joan Didion

What Work Is (1991) – Philip Levine

Poor Black Women (1968) – Patricia Robinson

The true story behind Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving staple, “Alice’s Restaurant” (2020) – Constance Grady

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Audio/Video (21)

Featured:

• 1619 (2019) – Nikole Hannah-Jones
  ⭐ Recommended

  Every other rights struggle that we have seen—disability rights, gay rights, women’s rights—all come from the efforts of the black civil rights struggles. […] It is black people who have been the perfectors of democracy.

  3h 33m

  Online
• We’ve Built Our World for Loneliness (2023) – Sheila Liming and Ezra Klein

  Loneliness in America isn’t merely the result of inevitable or abstract forces, like technological progress; it’s the product of social structures we’ve chosen

  1h 15m

  Online
• The Wrong Question More Than Once (2022) – Matt Donovan and Ada Limón

  For most of the shift, it was more about not looking
  bored or wanting to seem invisible behind the ER desk
  while nothing much happened at all…

  5 min

  Online

See also:

How to Be Depressed (2020) – Matthew Sitman

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know (2019) – Malcolm Gladwell

Freud and Politics (2021) – Pat Blanchfield

How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the modern elite (2019) – Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Ezra Klein

The Call (2023) – Mary Harris and Ira Glass

Bomb Children (Interview) (2020) – Leah Zani

The Krononauts (2023) – Ben Naddaff-Hafrey

Carlos Doesn’t Remember (2016) – Malcolm Gladwell

Talking While Black (2022) – Emanuele Berry and Chana Joffe-Walt

You’re It (2023) – Ira Glass, Megan Tan, and Chana Joffe-Walt

The Anthropocene Reviewed (Podcast) (2018) – John Green

Juneteenth, 2020 (2022) – Mariama J. Lockington and Ada Limón

Golden Age (2021) – Chris Santiago and Ada Limón

Metro North (2022) – Jason Barry and Ada Limón

My Empire (2021) – Kaveh Akbar and Ada Limón

Northeast Corridor (2020) – Cat Richardson and Tracy K. Smith

Know Your Enemy – Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

This American Life – Ira Glass

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• The Americas