Book Discussions

May, 2025

Distorting Democracy by Carolyn Reneé DuPont

Carolyn Renée DuPont, professor of American history at Eastern Kentucky University, takes a historian's view of the institution and examines its effects of today's political system.

Let the People Pick the President by Jesse Wegman

Supreme Court journalist and New York Times editorial board member Jesse Wegman  dives deep into the debates of the founders, examines the effects of the Electoral College today, and argues forcefully for why the time for change is now.

November, 2024

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

Journalist, podcast host, and Vox co-founder Ezra Klein lays out the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. This book resists both blame and hand-wringing. Instead, it offers a clear framework for understanding the politicization of everyday culture.

July, 2024

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Slate staff writer Henry Grabar

Named one of the year’s best books of 2023 by The New Yorker and The New Republic, Paved Paradise manages to be both highly entertaining and seriously informative. You will never look at the humble parking spot the same again.

April, 2024

California Against the Sea: Visions For Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia

November, 2023

The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haass

July, 2023

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein