My dad is a news junky and I’m trying to convince him that watching CNN for several hours a day is just brain rot. Looking for engaging left-wing/liberal writing with a good narrator as an alternative. He’s 71 years old and somewhere between a socialist and a democrat.
by Jewstun
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Depends on what he’s interested in.
Maybe Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Edited: OK, got it but leaving here so folks can see the resulting comments. If I delete it, they won’t get the memo either.
Maybe he would like to read A Promised Land by Barack Obama? It’s a little long, but full of good stories and easy to follow.
He might also like the themes in Dignity by Chris Arnade. It has pictures as well, which might help.
Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
*Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America* by Talia Lavin – she narrates the audiobook too.
I’m listening to Sapiens
Red Rising.
Outrage Machine by Tobias Rose-Stockwell.
{{The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs}}
{{Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart, William McDonough}}
{{The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James}}
{{Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter LaFeber}}
Politics is for Power by Eitan Hersh