On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 6 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Sacred Hoop
Paula Gunn Allen
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Theory of the Leisure Class
An Economic Study of Institutions
Thorstein Veblen
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
An African History of Africa
From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Zeinab Badawi
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The plot against America
Senator Wheeler and the Forces Behind Him
David George Plotkin
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Rethinking Medications, Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
Jerry Avorn
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel, Palestine
Hussein Agha
Robert Malley
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Homecoming, The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Rana Foroohar
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
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Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination
Mark Bergen
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Nuked, Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis
Linda C. Morice
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Oliver Jeffers
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Go-between
L.P. Hartley
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The grapes of wrath
John Steinbeck
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Animal Farm
George Orwell
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Building a God
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It
Christopher DiCarlo
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
There There
a novel
Julia Osuna Aguilar
Tommy Orange
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How Countries Go Broke, The Big Cycle
Ray Dalio
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Art Cure
The Science of How the Arts Save Lives
Daisy Fancourt
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Social Biome
How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
Jeffrey Hall
Andy J. Merolla
