Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Constitutional Bind

By: Aziz Rana

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 30 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst... Read more

For God, Country, and Sanity

By: CatholicVote

Narrated by: Gift Orudo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Some elections really are huge turning points - and 2024 is one of them. A must-read for every Catholic American, For God, Country, & Sanity: How Catholics Can Save America offers 13 insightful chapters that take a deep dive into different aspects of the cultural, political, and religious landscapes of our rapidly declining country. Look no... Read more

Africa on the Precipice

By: Nnamdi Chiekwu

Narrated by: Michael Matovu

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Africa on the Precipice (ATP) provides commentary on global geopolitics, economics, and world history, using African interests as a lens to give a different perspective on world events. The book specifically explores how and why Africa has not fared well in the ‘battle of civilizations’ (or global geopolitics) from the 15th century until present... Read more

Bitcoin

By: Satoshi Nakamoto

Narrated by: John Riddle

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bitcoin is a free open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending. Read more

Palestina e Israel

By: Maruan Soto Antaki

Narrated by: Maruan Soto Antaki

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrado por el autor Una revisión tan clara como urgente a la historia y la actualidad del doloroso conflicto entre Palestina e Israel. El 7 de octubre de 2023 Hamás efectuó el peor ataque terrorista, por el nivel de violencia y brutalidad, en su historia. Más de mil miembros de la organización entraron a territorio israelí por tierra, mar y... Read more

Das Leben in Agenda 2030

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden & Toni Tano

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In einer dystopischen Zukunft der Agenda 2030 regiert ein System von Co2-Punkten und Sozialkrediten die Gesellschaft. Menschen werden von KI überwacht, Roboter erledigen die Arbeit, Drohnen überwachen die Straßen. Einziger Ausweg scheint die Rebellion gegen die Kontrolle durch Technologie zu sein. Doch die Protagonisten erkennen bald, dass die... Read more

The Unaccountability Machine

By: Dan Davies

Narrated by: Peter Dickson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

'A corporation, or a government department isn't a conscious being, but it is an artificial intelligence. It has the capability to take decisions which are completely distinct from the intentions of any of the people who compose it. And under stressful conditions, it can go stark raving mad.'

When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In... Read more

Deutschland der Extreme

By: Martin Debes

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Thüringen greift die AfD nach der Macht und bringt die ganze Republik in Bedrängnis

Martin Debes beschreibt anhand von Thüringen, warum die großen Volksparteien an Boden verlieren, das Vertrauen in demokratische Prozesse und staatliche Institutionen schwindet und Politik zu einem Schauplatz von Extremisten und Karrieristen wird. Sein Buch ist... Read more

Der Freiheitshandel

By: Mathias Döpfner

Narrated by: Mathias Döpfner

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Politisch und wirtschaftlich ist die demokratische Welt so schwach wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr. Das Konzept "Wandel durch Handel" ist gescheitert. Vielmehr hat es Diktaturen gestärkt und Demokratien untergraben.  Freie und offene Gesellschaften sind existenziell gefährdet. Der russische Einmarsch in der Ukraine, der brutale Angriff auf... Read more

My Lost Freedom

By: George Takei

Narrated by: George Takei

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving true story for children ages 6 to 9 about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II—from the iconic Star Trek actor, activist, and author of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy.

February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months... Read more

The Postmodern Predicament

By: Bruce Ackerman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at once—shifting endlessly from virtual to physical reality as we reach out to... Read more

New Cold Wars

By: David E. Sanger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean & David E. Sanger

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon
 
“[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American... Read more

From Beirut to Jerusalem

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 25 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.

"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." —Seymour M. Hersh

One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world.... Read more

Saving Ourselves

By: Dana R. Fisher

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in... Read more

Ghosted

By: Nancy French

Narrated by: Nancy French

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story.Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the... Read more

The Conservative Environmentalist

By: Benji Backer

Narrated by: Benji Backer

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A young, conservative environmentalist provides an intrepid vision for both solving our climate crisis and prioritizing the American national interest.

Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones

Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral... Read more

Character Matters

By: Jean Becker

Narrated by: Jean Becker, George Dvorsky, Allan Robertson, C...

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls.  

As America heads into what promises to be a tumultuous 2024 presidential election year, Character Matters will be a good... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Tom Gallagher

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Ingenious Life" - Dive into the Mind of a Legend
Experience firsthand the story of one of the most remarkable and influential figures in history through his very own words. Left incomplete at the time of his death, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" remains a seminal and iconic piece of... Read more

Vom Gelde

By: Argentarius

Narrated by: Christian Leuenberg

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer sich mit Geld und Banken in der Zeit des späten Kaiserreiches und der Weimarer Republik beschäftigt, stößt unweigerlich auf den Namen Alfred Lansburgh alias Argentarius (1872-1937) und seine Zeitschrift "Die Bank", die von 1908 bis 1943 erschien. Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung nannte Lansburgh im Januar 1950 "in Sachen des Geldes... Read more

DEMAND TRANSPARENCY

By: Jason G Mandel

Narrated by: Jason G Mandel

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jason Mandel sheds light on how the big Wall Street firms manipulate circumstances to benefit themselves first, and their clients second. Mandel argues that investors must demand transparency and seek guarantees from their financial advisers.Clarity is needed to navigate a future economy filled with great volatility and uncertainty.... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Liam Johnson

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"""Common Sense"" is a political pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776. It played a crucial role in inspiring American colonists to take up arms against the British and fight for independence. In the pamphlet, Paine argues that it is only common sense for the American colonies to break away from Britain and become an independent nation. He... Read more

COVID Lockdown Insanity

By: Hugh McTavish Ph.D.

Narrated by: Hugh McTavish Ph.D.

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist goes through the data on one of the greatest public policy disasters in human history—the lockdown response to COVID. How deadly was COVID originally and after it had evolved for a year or two? How many COVID deaths were prevented by the lockdowns? How many people did the lockdowns throw into depression?... Read more

Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Antichrist

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Drake Johnson

Length: 23 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy this Friedrich Nietzsche collection combining three of Nietzsche's most noteworthy pieces, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Antichrist into one audiobook! Read more