The Origin of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt
Arendt doesn’t moralize. She traces the structure. The root causes, not the symptoms. That’s what makes it timeless. The name and places change. The mechanisms don’t.
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For Love of the World – Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Hannah Arendt never asked for permission to think. On Zionism, she was honest in a way that made people uncomfortable. The backlash was fierce. She didn’t flinch. That kind of intellectual courage, even when it costs you, is rarer than genius.
Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell
A book I wish I had read earlier. Economics is not about money. It’s about reasoning. Every decision has a trade-off. Every policy has a price. Someone always pays it. The question is just who, and whether anyone bothered to ask.
A Global History – L. S. Stavrianos
History is not a set of isolated timelines. It is a single, connected story of humanity. Once you see it that way, you cannot unsee it. The fall of one empire fertilizes the rise of another. Trade routes carry not just goods but ideas, diseases, revolutions. Nothing happens in isolation. Ever.