1. The Metanarrative Corset
- Eric Liu: Why Ordinary People Have to Understand Power
- Philip Howard: The Rule of Nobody
- Francis Fukuyama: US Courts Have To Much Power
- Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
- Paddy Ashdown: The Global Power Shift
2. The Leviathans
- Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence
- Barbara Coloroso: Contempt and Darwinian Drama: The Short Walk from Bullying to Genocide
- Sheryl WuDunn: Our Century’s Greatest Injustice
3. Love’s Labyrinth
- Esther Perel: The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship
- Yann Dall’Aglio Love—You’re Doing It Wrong
- Helen Fisher: The Brain in Love
- John Gottman: The Best Predictor of Divorce
4. Frozen by Fear
- Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women-It’s a Men’s Issue
- Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave
- Philip Zimbardo: How People Become Monsters … or Heroes
- Brené Brown: Listening to Shame
5. Idols of the Mind
- Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias
- Paul Bloom: Can Prejudice Ever Be a Good Thing?
- Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority
- Solomon Asch: Conformity Experiments
- Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience v. Memory
- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking that we know
6. The Beast Within
- Robert Wyman: Sex and Violence Among the Apes
- Frans de Waal: Moral Behavior in Animals
- 60 Minutes: Born good? Babies Help Unlock the Origins of Morality
- E. O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth
- Robert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans
- Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves
7. Survival of the Fittest
- Dan Dennett: On Dangerous Memes
- Roselinde Torres: What It Takes to Be a Great Leader
- Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
- Eve Ensler: On Security
- Hanna Rosin: New Data on the Rise of Women
8. The Grand Tetons
- Barry Schwartz: Our Loss of Wisdom
- Sebastian Junger: Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard To Come Home From War
- Alain de Botton: A Gentler Philosophy of Success
- Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence
- Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight
9. The Beacons of Hope
- Linda Cliatt-Wayman: Lead Fearlessly Love Hard
- Neil Halloran: The Fallen of World War II
- Steven Pinker: The Myth of Violence
- Kwame Anthony Appiah: Honor and Moral Revolutions
- Kavita Ramdas: Radical Women Embracing Tradition
- Sakena Yacoobi: How I Stopped the Taliban from Shutting Down My School
- Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement
