Whether you’re jetting off to a tropical destination or lounging in your backyard, the summer is a great time to catch up on some reading. And if you’re looking for a book that will open – and maybe even change – your mind, Open to Debate has your back.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the books our research team has been reading over the past year, including topics like de-extinction, U.S.-China relations, and the history of Silicon Valley. Written by Open to Debate debaters, these books will help you dive in deeper into the topics and debates you love.
Jonathan Gruber & Simon Johnson – Jump-Starting America
Kenneth Rogoff – The Curse of Cash
Leslie Berlin – Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age
John Mearsheimer – The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
Arthur Brooks – Love Your Enemies
Helen Fisher – Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Meredith Broussard – Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Allison Schrager – An Economist Walks Into a Brothel
Ross MacPhee – End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
David Brooks – The Second Mountain
Michael Pillsbury – The Hundred-Year Marathon
Nadine Strossen – HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights)
Kurt Andersen – Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Nina Khruscheva – In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones
Federiga Bindi – Europe and America: The End of the Transatlantic Relationship
L. Hunter Lovins – A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life
Parag Khanna – The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century