Politics & Economy audiobooks

Another Man's War

By: Sam Childers

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to save children in one of the world's most lawless areas.Photos are included in the audiobook... Read more

Lessons from the Covid War

By: Covid Crisis Group

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
 
Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed... Read more

Imperialism

By: Vladimir Lenin

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1916 against the backdrop of the First World War, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism explains the flaws and power of capitalism, which inevitably lead to monopolies, imperialism and colonialism. Lenin develops Marx’s theories of political economy, which had been put forward 50 years earlier in Das Kapital. He goes on to... Read more

Drawing Lines

By: Kira Davis

Narrated by: Madeline McCray

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It is time to draw our lines in the sand as Christians and Conservatives by engaging in public conversations with truth and conviction.



Kira Davis has built a brand on reaching out to the other side, on giving people space to be wrong, the space to discuss, the space to tolerate. Unfortunately, the people controlling the public conversations... Read more

The Problem of Democracy

By: Shadi Hamid

Narrated by: Amin El Gamin

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East—we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice.



When Islamist parties rise to power through free... Read more

Cold Peace

By: Michael W. Doyle

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.



With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia,... Read more

Growth for Good

By: Alessio Terzi

Narrated by: Mitch Crawford

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this lead to a better society, helping us break free from an obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these... Read more

When Broken Glass Floats

By: Chanrithy Him

Narrated by: Kalean Ung

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting

Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."

In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of... Read more

Inventing the Future

By: Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism

Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains... Read more

Drugs and the FDA

By: Mikkael A. Sekeres

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of... Read more

La guerra en las palabras

By: Oswaldo Zavala

Narrated by: Olallo Rubio

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Una historia intelectual de la hegemonía que funcionó como la plataforma para lanzar la “guerra contra el narco”: primero desde un plano simbólico y después como una campaña permanente de violencia organizada. El fenómeno del narcotráfico en México ha estado siempre determinado por el lenguaje. Durante más de cuatro décadas, el sistema político... Read more

It Stops Here

By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson

Narrated by: Rueben George

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an... Read more

La constituyente

By: Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales

Narrated by: Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Crónica en primera persona del proceso constituyente chileno en el que participó el autor, best seller del sello, como uno de los 155 convencionales.
Desde la emoción del momento de haber sido escogido como uno de los 155 convencionales que escribirían la nueva Constitución chilena, hasta el aprendizaje de cómo funciona, internamente,... Read more

Tiempo de hormigas

By: Antonio Pérez Henares

Narrated by: Enrique Cañizares

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro de alto voltaje político sobre la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España. Antonio Pérez Henares es célebre por la claridad de sus ideas, así como por expresarlas con franqueza y sin andarse con rodeos. En este libro pone encima de la mesa las grandes cuestiones –y grandes tabúes– que preocupan a millones de... Read more

Spying on the Reich

By: R. T. Howard

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.



From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to determine what sort of threat Hitler's regime would now pose to the rest of... Read more

Algorithms for the People

By: Josh Simons

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Teri Schnaubelt explains how to put democracy at the heart of AI governance Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide which children are at risk of abuse, and... Read more

The Straight State

By: Margot Canaday

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National... Read more

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

By: Mark L. Clifford

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a... Read more

Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism. Read more

The Southernization of America

By: Frye Gaillard & Cynthia Tucker

Narrated by: Diana Blue & Paul Heitsch

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and... Read more

How Sweet It Is

By: Winsome Earle-Sears

Narrated by: Winsome Earle-Sears

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia reveals in her memoir how her Christian faith, unwavering patriotism, and fervent commitment to conservative principles propelled her to serve and sacrifice for her country and a better future.

Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she... Read more

Cashing Out

By: Neill Lochery

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain “neutral” countries were all too willing to assist them.

By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond... Read more

Kabul

By: Jerry Dunleavy & James Hasson

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This explosive national bestseller is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the world.​ America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell... Read more

An End to the Upside Down Reset

By: Mark Gober

Narrated by: Mark Gober

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you realize it or not, a vision for society—called the “Great Reset”—was formally unveiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020, several months after COVID-19 emerged. The WEF is one of the most influential bodies in the world and has ties to the highest levels of global governments and industries. In fact, its Great Reset has... Read more