Evangelical pastor Caleb E. Campbell’s "Disarming Leviathan" is an earnest text that works to understand the phenomenon of rising Christian nationalism in the United States. Following the upheavals of 2020 and 2021, including the... Read More

Powerful and informative, Rena Steinzor’s "American Apocalypse" examines the history, motives, and momentum of six powerful groups aligned with the far right: corporations, the Tea Party, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white... Read More

"Mississippi Swindle" is Shad White’s gripping account of the largest public fraud in Mississippi’s history—the misuse of nearly $100 million in federal welfare funds. Appointed Mississippi’s state auditor in 2018, White led the... Read More

Michelle M. Nickerson’s "Spiritual Criminals" is a gripping account of the Camden 28, Catholic war protesters who burglarized a federal building and were acquitted in a well-publicized trial in the early 1970s. While eight members of... Read More

The political science text "South Korea" makes a moral case for “consciousness raising” and cultural transformation that has clear relevance to other industrialized nations. John Gonzalez and Young Lee’s cautious political science... Read More

A change-making organization is used to illustrate the transformative potential of empowering women and girls in the inspiring book "Who Runs the World?" Speaking on behalf of the Pathfinder organization, Lois Quam argues for universal,... Read More

A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history, Stuart E. Eizenstat’s "The Art of Diplomacy" gets down to the brass tacks of foreign affairs. An ode to diplomacy’s power and fickleness, this... Read More

As the senior White House correspondent for the nonpartisan Voice of America news network, Steven L Herman had the difficult assignment of covering the Donald Trump administration while it routinely attacked VOA for its commitment to the... Read More