(CNN)09/15/2019 "On Writing" by Stephen King
09/08/2019 "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
08/25/2019 "Our Boys" a new series on HBO
08/11/2019 "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester
07/28/2019 "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe" by Sheri Berman
07/21/2019 "The Guarded Gate" by Daniel Okrent
07/14/2019 "Leadership" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
06/30/2019 "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
06/23/2019 "The Conservative Sensibility" by George F. Will
06/16/2019 "The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco, "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, "Circe" by Madeline Miller
06/09/2019 "War and Peace" by Nigel Hamilton
06/02/2019 "The Shadow War" by Jim Sciutto
05/26/2019 "Against the Rules" a podcast by Michael Lewis
05/19/2019 "A Thousand Small Sanities" by Adam Gopnik
05/12/2019 "World Without Mind" by Franklin Foer
05/05/2019 "Our Man" by George Packer
04/28/2019 "Working" by Robert Caro
04/14/2019 "Accidental Presidents" by Jared Cohen
04/07/2019 "Open" by Kimberly Clausing
03/31/2019 "Melting Pot or Civil War?" by Reihan Salam
03/10/2019 "The Third Pillar" by Raghuram Rajan's
02/17/2019 "Billion Dollar Whale" by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
02/10/2019 "A Foreign Policy for the Left" by Michael Walzer
02/03/2019 "Crude Nation" by Raul Gallegos
01/27/2019 "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
01/13/2019 "Roma" a film by Alfonso Cuaron
12/16/2018 "Cultural Evolution" by Ronald Inglehart
2/09/2018 "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Harari
12/04/2018 "Presidents Under Fire: The History of Impeachment" (CNN documentary)
11/18/2018 "Revolution Française" by Sophie Pedder
10/07/2018 "Capitalism in America: A History" by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
09/30/2018 "Identity" by Francis Fukuyama
09/16/2018 "Detroit" (2017) directed by Kathryn Bigelow
08/19/2018 "Uncivil Agreement" by Lilliana Mason
08/12/2018 "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson
08/05/2018 "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling
07/22/2018 "The China Mission" by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
07/15/2018 "Our Towns: A 100,000 mile journey into the Heart of America" by James & Deborah Fallows
07/01/2018 "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
06/24/2018 "American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction" by David Gerber
06/17/2018 "Origin Story" by David Christian
05/27/2018 "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth
05/20/2018 "Breaking the Bee" a film directed by Sam Rega and produced by Chris Weller
05/13/2018 "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Global Capitalism" by Ian Bremmer
05/06/2018 "Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How we Earn." by Chris Hughes
04/22/2018 "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler
04/15/2018 "Post Truth" by Lee McIntyre
04/08/2018 "The Death of Democracy" by Benjamin Carter Hett
04/01/2018 "The Ordinary Virtues" by Michael Ignatieff
03/11/2018 "Five Days in London, May 1940" by John Lukacs
03/04/2018 "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs
02/25/2018 "The Second Amendment: A Biography" by Michael Waldman
02/18/2018 "Trumpocracy" by David Frum
02/11/2018 "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
02/04/2018 "White Working Class" by Joan C. Williams
01/28/2018 "Twilight of the Elites" by Christopher Hayes
01/21/2018 "The Road not Taken" by Max Boot
01/14/2018 "Devil's Bargain" by Joshua Green
01/07/2018 "Kings and Presidents" by Bruce Riedel
12/10/2017 "Rescue" by David Miliband
12/03/2017 "The Vanity Fair Diaries" by Tina Brown
11/19/2017 "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" by Anne Applebaum
10/29/2017 "Novitiate" a film from Sony Pictures Classics
10/22/2017 "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
10/08/2017 "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
10/01/2017 "The Vietnam War" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for PBS
09/24/2017 "27 Articles" by T. E. Lawrence
09/17/2017 "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
08/20/2017 "The Once and Future Liberal" by Mark Lilla
07/23/2017 "Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation" by Adam Roberts
07/16/2017 "VICE Special Report: A World In Disarray " by VICE on HBO
07/09/2017 "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" by Carlo Rovelli
07/02/2017 "I Am Not Your Negro" a documentary from Magnolia Pictures
06/25/2017 "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" by Edward Luce
06/18/2017 "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom" by Thomas E. Ricks
06/11/2017 "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" by Graham Allison
06/04/2017 "Start the Week Podcast" by BBC Radio
05/28/2017 "Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?" by Jonathan Haidt
05/14/2017 "Do I make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters" by Harold Evans
05/07/2017 "The Islamic Enlightenment" by Christopher de Bellaigue
04/23/2017 "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
04/16/2017 "Hit Maker: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction" by Derek Thompson
04/09/2017 "Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline" by Gideon Rachman
04/02/2017 "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
03/19/2017 "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human" by Adam Piore
03/12/2017 "War in European History" by Michael Howard
02/26/2017 "Commander in Chief: FDR's Batle with Churchill, 1943" by Nigel Hamilton
02/12/2017 "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam
02/05/2017 "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
01/15/2017 "A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order" by Richard Haass
01/08/2017 "Deutschland 83" airing on SundanceTV
12/18/2016 "In Defense of a Liberal Education" by Fareed Zakaria
12/11/2016 "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight
12/04/2016 "Thank You for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Excelling in the Age of Accelerations" by Thomas L. Friedman
11/27/2016 "Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity" by Samuel Huntington
11/20/2016 "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" by Sebastian Mallaby
11/13/2016 "Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt" by George Packer in the New Yorker
10/30/2016 "The Conservative Heart" by Arthur Brooks
10/16/2016 "The Populist Explosion" by John Judas
10/02/2016 "His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt" by Joseph Lelyveld
09/25/2016 "The Fix" by Jonathan Tepperman
09/04/2016 "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead and "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari
08/14/2016 "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance
08/07/2016 "ISIS: A History" by Fawaz Gerges
07/31/2016 "Eye in the Sky" a film by Bleeker Street Media