Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Last Christians

By: Andreas Knapp

Narrated by: Brett A. Barry

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.

Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award

Inside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they’re a religious... Read more

The Once and Future Liberal

By: Mark Lilla

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left — in America and beyond.Following the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such... Read more

Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in)

By: Shrabani Basu

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.

History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.

In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of her two great loves—Prince Albert and John... Read more

A People’s History of the World

By: Chris Harman

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 29 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to... Read more

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

By: Jared Yates Sexton

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following a series of tweets that saw his observations viewed well... Read more

The Ascent of Humanity

By: Charles Eisenstein

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 27 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self
 
Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics,... Read more

Who Was Alexander Hamilton?

By: Pam Pollack & Meg Belviso

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the story of the Founding Father who inspired the smash Broadway musical.

Born in the British West Indies and orphaned as a child, Alexander Hamilton made his way to the American Colonies and studied to become a lawyer. He joined a local militia during the American Revolution, rose to the rank of Major General, and became the chief aide to... Read more

Shooting Ghosts

By: Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret.) & Finbarr O'Reilly

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain & David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score

A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls

"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors are so committed to transparency, admitting readers... Read more

A Preface to Politics

By: Walter Lippmann

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Lippmann still stands today as one of the foremost figures of American political journalism, social commentary, and cultural criticism. At the age of 24, he published A Preface to Politics; that same year, along with Herbert Croly and Walter Weyl, he founded The New Republic magazine. In short, he burst upon the scene. He went on to... Read more

Notes on a Foreign Country

By: Suzy Hansen

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing... Read more

Rogue Spooks

By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of an attempted coup d'état by rogue intelligence agents. The goal: to overthrow the presidency of Donald Trump and subvert the will of the electorate.

Donald Trump's first 100 days in office were roiled by allegations of treasonous contacts between his campaign team and the Kremlin to rig the election. These outrageous charges... Read more

Losing an Enemy

By: Trita Parsi

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts.

The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with Iran and prevented the... Read more

The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Alan Coren, Barry Took, Full Cast & Simon Hoggart

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A headline-crunching celebration of Radio 4’s hugely successful topical comedy quiz show

The News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and four decades later it’s still playfully making and breaking the headlines of our daily news.

Among the vintage gems in this collection are 25 Years of the News Quiz, in which Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton,... Read more

Brainwashed

By: Ben Shapiro

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When parents send their children off to college, mom and dad hope they’ll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute—able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there’s only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker.In this explosive... Read more

God's Wolf

By: Jeffrey Lee

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades. A reviled figure in Islamic history, often portrayed as the very epitome of brutality, Reynald remains as controversial—and as vividly present in the minds of many in the Middle East—as the... Read more

Locked In

By: John F. Pfaff

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted... Read more

Rescued from ISIS

By: Dimitri Bontinck

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring and terrifying tale of one man’s journey to the Middle East to save his child from radical Islam.Dimitri Bontinck lived every parent’s worst nightmare: his teenage son, introduced to Islam by his girlfriend, fell into the clutches of a radical mosque. Dimitri watched helplessly as his son Jay transformed from a gentle boy... Read more

Never Quit

By: Jimmy Settle & Don Rearden

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic memoir of an Alaskan pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator, and decorated war hero“That Others May Live” is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska’s 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or... Read more

Play Like a Girl

By: Ellie Roscher

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, his mother, and his grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002,... Read more

Not a Day Care

By: Everett Piper

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What has happened to the American spirit? We’ve gone from “Give me liberty, or give me death!” to “Take care of me, please.” Our colleges were once bastions of free speech; now they’re bastions of speech codes. Our culture once rewarded independence; now it rewards victimhood. Parents once taught their kids how to fend for themselves; now, any... Read more

Revolution’s End

By: Brad Schreiber

Narrated by: Brad Schreiber

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty years after the Patty Hearst “trial of the century,” people still don’t know the true story of the events.Revolution’s End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst’s relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Not only did the heiress have a... Read more

Conscience of a Conservative

By: Jeff Flake

Narrated by: Milton Jeffers & Jeff Flake

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column

In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump... Read more

Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

By: Miriam Horn

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work-restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans-would not call themselves environmentalists: they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land-the iconic terrain where explorers and... Read more

Invisible No More

By: Andrea J. Ritchie

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police... Read more