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Books like Hate, Inc.
The best books like Hate, Inc. are The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, and Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion. Hate, Inc. by Matt Taibbi is about media criticism, polarization, journalism. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr · Science
The Shallows is Nicholas Carr's argument that the internet — and the way we habitually use it, skimming hyperlinked text, watching short videos, checking feeds — is reshaping the neural circuits responsible for deep reading and sustained concentration.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal · Self-help
Indistractable is Nir Eyal's argument that distraction is not a technology problem — it's a psychology problem.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
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Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson · Psychology
Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson's central concern is that modern media, advertising, and politics have optimized for propaganda techniques that bypass critical reasoning and exploit psychological vulnerabilities.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum · History
Anne Applebaum opens Twilight of Democracy with a party she and her husband hosted on New Year's Eve 1999, celebrating the new millennium with a hundred friends and colleagues in Poland.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - The Coddling of the American Mind
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt argue that American universities — and the parents and institutions that feed them — have adopted three ideas they call the Great Untruths: that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker, that you should always trust your feelings, and that life is a battle between good people and evil people.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - How Democracies Die
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt · Politics
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are Harvard comparative politics scholars who have spent their careers studying how democracies break down in Latin America and Europe.
Both dig into polarization.
Read the summary → - Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt · Politics
Tyranny of the Minority is the sequel to How Democracies Die, but it shifts the analytical ground.
Both dig into polarization.
Read the summary → - Bad Science
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Ben Goldacre · Science
Bad Science is Ben Goldacre's dissection of how scientific evidence gets misrepresented, distorted, and invented in the service of selling health products, generating media coverage, and protecting bad actors from accountability.
Both dig into media criticism.
Read the summary → - The Forever War
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Dexter Filkins · History
Dexter Filkins spent more than a decade covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the New York Times, and The Forever War is his attempt to render what he witnessed in a form that is closer to literature than journalism.
Both dig into journalism.
Read the summary → - The Gray Lady Winked
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Ashley Rindsberg · History
The Gray Lady Winked is a critical history of the New York Times, focused on cases where the paper's reporting was demonstrably wrong, selectively presented, or actively misleading.
Both dig into media criticism.
Read the summary → - Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights
Graham Allison et al. · Politics
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights compiles the views of Singapore's founding prime minister on the major strategic questions of the early twenty-first century.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Seeing Like a State
Books like Hate, Inc.: quick answers
What are the best books like Hate, Inc.?
The best books like Hate, Inc. by Matt Taibbi are The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hate, Inc., such as media criticism, polarization, journalism.
What should I read after Hate, Inc.?
A natural next read after Hate, Inc. is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. A kindred politics read. Other strong choices are Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum.
What books are similar to Hate, Inc. by Matt Taibbi?
Hate, Inc. centers on media criticism, polarization, journalism. Books with a similar feel include The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
