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 5 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Theory of the Leisure Class
An Economic Study of Institutions
Thorstein Veblen
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
An African History of Africa
From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Zeinab Badawi
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Rethinking Medications, Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
Jerry Avorn
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel, Palestine
Hussein Agha
Robert Malley
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Homecoming, The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Rana Foroohar
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Nuked, Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis
Linda C. Morice
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Oliver Jeffers
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Go-between
L.P. Hartley
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The grapes of wrath
John Steinbeck
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How Countries Go Broke, The Big Cycle
Ray Dalio
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Immigration and Freedom
Chandran Koukathis
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Odyssey
Homer
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Native Son
Richard Wright
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Post-Traumatic Parenting, Break the Cycle, and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be
Robin Koslowitz
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Forgotten Sense
The New Science of Smell
Jonas Olofsson
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Solitude, The Science and Power of Being Alone
Thuy-vy Nguyen
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On the Same Track, How Schools Can Join the 21st Century Struggle Against Resegregation
Carol Corbett Burris
