Cass Sunstein's Reading List

Books from Conversations with Tyler: Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI (2026)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of Conversations with Tyler (2026-01-21).

1984

George Orwell · 1949 · Buy on Amazon

"I recently reread Orwell's 1984 and what uh kind of staggered me about it is that Orwell's of two minds and that's the power of the book."

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek · Buy on Amazon

"I think it's one of the greatest books in the last 200 years."

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill · Buy on Amazon

"Mill's book on the subjection of women which is one of the great liberal texts"

Sexual Harassment of Working Women

Catharine A. MacKinnon · Buy on Amazon

"She wrote sexual harassment of working women, which is an amazingly important book and she's written material on pornography and on prostitution that is a very large step forward."

The Arrogant Ape

Christine Webb · Buy on Amazon

"There's a new book out called The Arrogant Ape by Christine Webb, which I greatly admire and it's about non-human animals and about human exceptionalism and it's an extremely powerful book."

Possession

A. S. Byatt · 1990 · Buy on Amazon

"it captures the intensity and specificity of romance and the unknowability to outside observers of what exactly happened in a way no other work in any language I will say does."

Animals Matter

Cass Sunstein · Buy on Amazon

"So this book is uh uh it's called Animals Matter. And it's uh a project that I am liking more than anything that I've liked since I worked on the Star Wars book."

The World According to Star Wars

Cass Sunstein · Buy on Amazon

"a project that I am liking more than anything that I've liked since I worked on the Star Wars book."

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