Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006.
Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!
Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Fight for the Four Freedoms
Harvey Kaye
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How to Be an Antiracist
Connor Cobley
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
White Fragility
Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Michael Eric Dyson
Robin DiAngelo
María Enguix Tercero
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Democracy in chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Network vs. The State
Balaji Srinivasan
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Raised to Obey
Agustina Paglayan
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Libidinal Economy
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
JD Vance
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On Immunity and Inoculation
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Eula Biss
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Donut Economics
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Butterfly Revolution
Curtis Yarvin
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dostoevsky
Letters And Reminiscences
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The birth of the clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Michel Foucault
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century
Walter Scheidel
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Invisible Americans
The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty
Jeff Madrick
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The fire next time
James Baldwin
