Professor Tom Sowell lists the books that changed his or might change your mind. These are topics about the very change and existence of civilization. Dr. Sowell specializes in skewering conventional wisdom, with facts.
I am reading Predictably Irrational about how we make decisions. The blog follows popular culture from a socionmics point of view. Another term for the same idea is behavioral economics. Seems this is a favorite topic of the new White House. How can they get the mass of Americans to do what they want? One answer is to put Americans in a 'herd' we tend to herd and avoid dropping out of the herd. For example, watch any WW II movie and you will be struck at how many people smoked cigarettes. The health dangers were known for years but it took onerous taxes to really get people to quit. Now that the herd does not smoke cigarettes, the number that start smoking has declined.
Other titles in clude Tipping Point, Nudge, and The Wisdom of Animals. Perhaps this link will work to an article in Time about how we behave.
Professor Elam 
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