Throughout my teaching and scholarly career, I have developed and encountered several resources, such as handouts and reading lists, that have been of great use to me. I thought that the resources that had helped me and my students might be of benefit to others. As such, I am sharing them here:
Handouts:
Books:
King, Patrick. Improv(e) Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What To Say with Improv Comedy Techniques. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019.
King, Patrick. The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic. Independently published, 2020.
Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Gallery Books, 1998.
Greene, Robert. The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 2000.
Aristotle. Rhetoric
Hasan, Mehdi. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking. Henry Holt and Co., 2023.
Lancaster, Simon S. Speechwriting: The Expert Guide. The Crowood Press, 2018.
Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition. Harper Business.
Coombs, Timothy. Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding. SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012.
Cohn, Robin. The PR Crisis Bible: How to Take Charge of the Media When All Hell Breaks Loose. Truman Talley Books, 2000.
Greene, Robert. The Art of Seduction. Penguin Books, 2003.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Rex Warner. London: Penguin Books, 1972.
Xenophon. Anabasis. Translated by Carleton L. Brownson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Translated by John Dryden. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
Tacitus. Annals. Translated by Michael Grant. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Edited by Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Art of War. Translated by Christopher Lynch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated by Harvey Mansfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Jomini, Antoine-Henri. The Art of War. Translated by G. H. Mendell and W. P. Craighill. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971.
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Kagan, Frederick W. The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783. New York: Dover Publications, 1987.
Glantz, David M. Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle. London: Frank Cass, 1991.
Guderian, Heinz. Achtung-Panzer! The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential. Translated by Christopher Duffy. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1992.
Fuller, J. F. C. The Foundations of the Science of War. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1926.
Imperial War Museum. British Trench Warfare 1917–1918: A Reference Manual. London: Imperial War Museum, 1997.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957.
Mao Tse-tung. On Guerrilla Warfare. Translated by Samuel B. Griffith II. New York: Praeger, 1961.
Von Neumann, John, and Oskar Morgenstern. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944.
Schelling, Thomas C. Arms and Influence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966.
Freedman, Lawrence. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy. 3rd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Paret, Peter, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Warden, John A., III. The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1988.
Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Skinner, Douglas W. AirLand Battle Doctrine. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analyses, 1988.
Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. New York: Viking, 1977.
Kilcullen, David. Counterinsurgency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
The Epic of Gilgamesh. Translated by Andrew George. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Viking Penguin, 1996.
Xenophon. The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia). Translated by Henry Graham Dakyns. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1914.
Arrian. The Campaigns of Alexander (Anabasis of Alexander). Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. London: Penguin Books, 1971.
Caesar, Julius. The Gallic Wars. Translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006.
Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur. Edited by Stephen H. A. Shepherd. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Edited by A. R. Braunmuller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Shakespeare, William. Richard II. Edited by Andrew Gurr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman. New York: Ecco, 2003.
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Edited by Robert Hampson. London: Penguin Books, 1995.
Kipling, Rudyard. Stories and Poems. Edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1927.
Hašek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Švejk. Translated by Cecil Parrott. London: Heinemann, 1973.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated by A. W. Wheen. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.
Jünger, Ernst. Storm of Steel. Translated by Michael Hofmann. London: Allen Lane, 2003.
Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Knopf, 1977.
Lartéguy, Jean. The Centurions. Translated by Xan Fielding. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1962.
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, 1985.
Loyd, Anthony. My War Gone By, I Miss It So. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.
Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.
Ahmari, Sohrab. The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos. New York: Convergent Books, 2021.
Alberta, Tim. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. New York: Harper, 2023.
Boyd, Gregory A. The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005.
Butler, Anthea. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Chesterton, Gilbert K., and Pope Leo XIII. The Third Way: Foundations of Distributism As Contained in the Writings of Pope Blessed Leo XIII and Gilbert K. Chesterton. Compiled and edited by Paul A. Böer Sr. Veritatis Splendor Publications, 2012.
Clarkson, Frederick. Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1997.
Crean, Thomas, and Alan Fimister. Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy. Frankfurt: Editiones Scholasticae / Ontos Verlag, 2020.
Cremer, Tobias. The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Davis, Michael Warren. The Reactionary Mind: Why "Conservative" Isn't Enough. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021.
De Maistre, Joseph. Considerations on France. 1796. Translated and edited by Richard A. Lebrun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
De Maistre, Joseph. Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and Other Human Institutions. 1814. Reprint, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011.
Emerson, Michael O., and Glenn E. Bracey II. The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Fea, John. Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction. Rev. ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016.
Ferrero, Mario, and Ronald Wintrobe, eds. The Political Economy of Theocracy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Goldberg, Michelle. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
Gorski, Philip S., and Samuel L. Perry. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Jones, Andrew Willard. Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2017.
Jones, Robert P. The End of White Christian America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Jones, Robert P. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.
Kruse, Kevin M. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Lavin, Talia. Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America. New York: Grand Central Publishing / Legacy Lit, 2024.
Lilla, Mark. All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Moore, Russell. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America. New York: Sentinel, 2023.
Neumann, Elizabeth. Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace. New York: Worthy Books, 2024.
Onishi, Bradley. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2023.
Perry, Samuel L., and Andrew L. Whitehead. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Phillips, Kevin. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. New York: Viking, 2006.
Posner, Sarah. Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind. New York: Random House, 2020.
Rodda, Chris. Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Self-published, 2014.
Sardá y Salvany, Félix. Liberalism Is a Sin. 1886. Translated and adapted by Condé B. Pallen. Rockford, IL: TAN Books, 1993.
Schwartzman, Micah J., and Jocelyn Wilson. "The Unreasonableness of Catholic Integralism." San Diego Law Review 56, no. 4 (2019): 1039–68.
Seidel, Andrew L. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American. New York: Sterling, 2019.
Sharlet, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Stewart, Katherine. Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025.
Svensson, Manfred, and David VanDrunen, eds. Aquinas Among the Protestants. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
Taylor, Matthew D. The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2024.
Tyler, Amanda. How to End Christian Nationalism. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2024.
VanDrunen, David. A Biblical Case for Natural Law. Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute, 2006.
VanDrunen, David. Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014.
VanDrunen, David. Living in God's Two Kingdoms: A Biblical Vision for Christianity and Culture. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010.
VanDrunen, David. Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.
VanDrunen, David. Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2020.
Vermeule, Adrian. Common Good Constitutionalism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.
Wallis, Jim. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Adamson, Walter L. Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Albright, Madeleine. Fascism: A Warning. New York: Harper, 2018.
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Applebaum, Anne. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. New York: Doubleday, 2024.
Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. New York: Doubleday, 2020.
Basham, Megan. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda. New York: Broadside Books, 2024.
Bates, Laura. Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists; The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Belew, Kathleen, and Ramón A. Gutiérrez, eds. A Field Guide to White Supremacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
Blee, Kathleen M. Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Brinton, Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 1938. Rev. ed., 1965.
Caplan, Bryan. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Chua, Amy. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.
Chua, Amy. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Continetti, Matthew. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. New York: Basic Books, 2022.
Cremer, Tobias. The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Daniels, Jessie. White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Darby, Seyward. Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism. New York: Little, Brown, 2020.
Deneen, Patrick J. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future. New York: Sentinel, 2023.
Deneen, Patrick J. Why Liberalism Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
Dworkin, Andrea. Right-Wing Women. New York: Perigee Books, 1983.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. 1952. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Fukuyama, Francis. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Gregor, A. James. The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Gregor, A. James. Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Gregor, A. James. Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.
Hanson, Stephen E., and Jeffrey S. Kopstein. The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024.
Hawley, George. The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Hazony, Yoram. The Virtue of Nationalism. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
Healy, Gene. The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2008.
Hedges, Chris. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. New York: Free Press, 2007.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right. New York: New Press, 2024.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York: New Press, 2016.
Huntington, John S. Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Jones, Reece. White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.
Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 3rd ed., 2016.
Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Lavin, Talia. Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. New York: Hachette Books, 2020.
Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
Leidig, Eviane. The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
Levin, Mark R. American Marxism. New York: Threshold Editions, 2021.
Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die. New York: Crown, 2018.
Lewis, Michael. The Fifth Risk. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.
Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. 3rd ed., 2007.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Marxism and Christianity. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. Reprint, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.
Márquez, Cecilia. Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1. 1867. Translated by Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin Books, 1976.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. 1848. Reprint, London: Penguin Books, 2002.
Mayer, Milton. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.
McIntyre, Lee. Post-Truth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
McQuade, Barbara. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2024.
Milbank, Dana. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party. New York: Doubleday, 2022.
Montell, Amanda. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. New York: Harper Wave, 2021.
Morris, Robin M. Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022.
Mounk, Yascha. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure. New York: Penguin Press, 2022.
Mudde, Cas, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. The Far Right Today. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019.
Muirhead, Russell, and Nancy L. Rosenblum. Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024.
Nagle, Angela. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right. Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2017.
Neiwert, David. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. London: Verso, 2017.
Nichols, Tom. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Nickerson, Michelle M. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Oakeshott, Michael. On Human Conduct. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Oakeshott, Michael. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. London: Methuen, 1962. New and expanded ed., Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991.
Painter, Richard W., and Peter Golenbock. American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2020.
Parenti, Michael. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Pérez, Efren O. Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Ramos, Paola. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America. New York: Viking, 2024.
Robin, Corey. Fear: The History of a Political Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Robin, Corey. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Sasse, Ben. The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Sasse, Ben. Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.
Stanley, Jason. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. New York: Atria Books, 2024.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya. Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. New York: Encounter Books, 2021.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya. Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. New York: Encounter Books, 2024.
Wendling, Mike. Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House. London: Pluto Press, 2018.
Westen, Drew. The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007.
Wolfe, Stephen. The Case for Christian Nationalism. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2022.
Wolin, Richard. Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.
Dictatorship
Adorno, Theodor W., Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford. The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
Albertus, Michael, and Victor Menaldo. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Babiak, Paul, and Robert D. Hare. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. New York: Regan Books / HarperCollins, 2006.
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton, 2020.
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, and Alastair Smith. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
Cleckley, Hervey. The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues about the So-Called Psychopathic Personality. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1941. 5th ed., 1988.
Dean, John W. Conservatives Without Conscience. New York: Viking, 2006.
Dickson, Bruce J. The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Dikötter, Frank. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Dobson, William J. The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy. New York: Doubleday, 2012.
Foot, John. Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Guriev, Sergei, and Daniel Treisman. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022.
Hare, Robert D. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944.
Haycock, Dean A. Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship. New York: Pegasus Books, 2019.
Higgs, Robert. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Khlevniuk, Oleg V. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
Lobaczewski, Andrew M. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes. Grande Prairie, AB: Red Pill Press, 2006.
Moghaddam, Fathali M. Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2019.
Mount, Ferdinand. Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall—from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2023.
Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Rithmire, Meg. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Stout, Martha. The Sociopath Next Door. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.
Oligarchy
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow. The Logic of Political Survival. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Callahan, David. The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Domhoff, G. William. Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Fishkin, Joseph, and William E. Forbath. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022.
Hartmann, Thom. The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2021.
Michels, Robert. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. 1911. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Free Press, 1962.
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Mosca, Gaetano. The Ruling Class. 1896. Translated by Hannah D. Kahn. Edited by Arthur Livingston. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939.
Pareto, Vilfredo. The Mind and Society (Trattato di Sociologia Generale). 1916. Translated by Andrew Bongiorno and Arthur Livingston. 4 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935.
Nabors, Forrest A. From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2017.
Taibbi, Matt. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010.
Weber, Max. "Bureaucracy." In Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. 1922. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Translated by Ephraim Fischoff et al. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Wedel, Janine R. Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Winslow, Luke. Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.