Three Books

Topics

Every subject the show has dug into, drawn from episode transcripts.

Policing & crime

All topics
The Staggering Scale of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant CrackdownJanuary 23, 2026
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary ForceAugust 27, 2025
The Very American Roots of TrumpismApril 23, 2025
The Hidden Politics of DisorderOctober 18, 2024
The Hidden Politics of DisorderOctober 18, 2024
This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug LawsMay 10, 2024
Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in CaliforniaApril 28, 2023
Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?November 23, 2021
Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?November 23, 2021
Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your LifeNovember 9, 2021
‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went WrongOctober 1, 2021
Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives — and Liberals — Get Wrong About AntiracismJuly 16, 2021
Critical Race Theory, Comic Books and the Power of Public SchoolsJuly 9, 2021
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?May 21, 2021
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?May 21, 2021
What a More Responsible Republican Party Would Look LikeMarch 2, 2021

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