The Reading Room
On Nineteen Eighty-Four
Some books are so influential that their vocabulary becomes the language we use to discuss the dangers they describe. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the supreme example.
On Nineteen Eighty-Four
Some books are so influential that their vocabulary becomes the language we use to discuss the dangers they describe. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the supreme example.
On Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is the great counterpart to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the two books are best read together because they imagine opposite roads to...
On Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is the great counterpart to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the two books are best read together because they imagine opposite roads to...
Reading On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, published in 2017, is the smallest book in this library and one of the most widely carried civic books of its era.
Reading On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, published in 2017, is the smallest book in this library and one of the most widely carried civic books of its era.
On The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama set out to answer the largest possible question in political science: where does political order come from? The Origins of Political Order, published in 2011, the first of...
On The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama set out to answer the largest possible question in political science: where does political order come from? The Origins of Political Order, published in 2011, the first of...
On Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy, published in 2020, asks a question that is at once political and intensely personal: why do people who once believed in liberal democracy turn against...
On Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy, published in 2020, asks a question that is at once political and intensely personal: why do people who once believed in liberal democracy turn against...