• book | March 01, 2009 |

    A Tolerable Anarchy

    Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom

    Jedediah Purdy
    Freedom is at the heart of the American identity, shaping both personal lives and political values. The ideal of authoring one's own life has inspi...
  • policy paper | November 25, 2008 |

    A Family-Based Social Contract

    David Gray Phillip Longman
    Americans instinctively revere the family as an institution that helps facilitate all other aspects of life. The family fosters attachments across ...
  • policy paper | July 01, 2008 |

    Child Savings Accounts: A Primer

    Jamie Zimmerman Jeff Meyer
    Poverty reduction strategies increasingly focus on the importance of creating financial assets. Child Savings Accounts (CSAs) are a novel and promi...
  • book | June 01, 2008 |

    Grand New Party

    How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream

    Reihan Salam Ross Douthat (Atlantic Monthly)
    Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. ...
  • book | March 01, 2008 |

    The Second World

    Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

    Parag Khanna
    Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short -- until now. In The Second World, Parag Khann...
  • book | March 01, 2008 |

    The Bin Ladens

    An Arabian Family In the American Century

    Steve Coll
    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family’s rise to po...
  • book | January 01, 2008 |

    The True Patriot

    Eric Liu
    It’s been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left, but the principles of true patriotism -- country above self, responsible stewardship, eq...
  • policy paper | September 17, 2007 |

    The Stress of Balancing Work and Family

    The Impact on Parent and Child Health and the Need for Workplace Flexibility

    David Gray Kelleen Kaye
    American families confront major challenges in balancing work and family life. Workers report that they would prefer fewer hours, while new technol...
  • book | September 01, 2007 |

    Overtreated

    Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

    Is a CT scan always necessary after your child suffers a bump on the head? Should you think twice before undergoing surgery for lower back pain? Ar...
  • book | March 01, 2007 |

    Best Care Anywhere

    Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours

    The long-maligned Veterans Health Administration has become the highest-quality healthcare provider in the United States. This encouraging change n...
  • book | January 01, 2007 |

    Oil on the Brain

    Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

    Lisa Margonelli
    Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry -- the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilli...
  • book | January 01, 2006 |

    The Osama bin Laden I Know

    An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader

    Peter L. Bergen has written what will long be a "go-to" resource for those seeking answers to such questions. Osama bin Laden has haunted the popul...
  • book | January 01, 2006 |

    Ethical Realism

    A Vision for America’s Role in the World

    Anatol Lieven John Hulsman
    "Ethical Realism" is passionately argued and bristlingly accusatory.... It reminds us that we once knew how to confront an adversary without sacrif...
  • book | August 01, 2005 |

    End of the Line

    The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

    Though some might view his concerns as excessively alarmist, Lynn delivers a welcome new facet to the antiglobalization debate, moving well beyond ...
  • book | April 28, 2005 |

    Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick

    How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power

    J. H. Snider
    AmazonLink: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595584714/ Speak Softly describes the Machiavellian strategies local TV broadcasters have used to inf...