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2025 selection · Nonfiction
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, science!, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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