Books like Haven in a heartless world by Christopher Lasch

An examination of two centuries of American family life, this book dispels long‑held myths about the past and reevaluates them in light of recent cultural events.

After a revolution that turns witches from rulers into hunted outcasts, Rune hides her identity as a socialite by day and the vigilante Crimson Moth by night. She must outwit a devoted witch hunter, Gideon, while navigating their dangerous attraction.

Lexi's younger brother Ben, who has Down's syndrome, becomes the victim of bullies, and while at school Lexi sees her friends tormented by two new students who are bullies, one male and one female.

A discourse on late 20th century American students' mind and soul, and the damage done by the elite universities' turn from the eternal verities as outlined by Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, Shakespeare and Rousseau.

Christopher Lasch argues that modern American democracy is endangered by professional and managerial elites who isolate themselves, ignore the middle class, and erode democratic ideals.

Polanyi's Great Transformation assesses the causes of capitalist instability in the mid twentieth century. The stability of the nineteenth century, he says, comes from four institutions: the gold standard, the liberal state, the balance of power, and the self-regulating market. Capitalism itself depends on treating as commodities three things which are in their essence not commodities: labor, land, and money. He deems these "fictitious commodities." Each of these three commodities is bought and sold in markets, but in fact are fundamentally different from ordinary commodities. Polanyi argues that capitalism's core institutions lead to an inherently unstable society that is increasingly forced to intervene in the disorder caused by markets in order to allow markets to continue to function. The transition from organic social values wherein human relations are privileged over exchange to modern capitalism is what Polanyi deems the "Great Transformation" that is the core feature of world capitalism.