How to Change the World: Lessons from the School of Good Ideas

In defense of discursive culture:

Disclosure: Roughly half of your life ago you translated an impressive visionary book of the 80s on the failings of the Marxism in Eastern Europe. It was a multifaceted experience for a junior student and among its many gifts were a number of "paper" meetings with people and books you had never heard of, or from, before: their books were almost entirely unavailable in bookstores at the time: Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnick, Leszek Kolakowski, Danilo Kis, Agnes Heller & Ferenc Feher... Here's Agnes Heller on the topic of change.

Also of note Roger Scruton & Margaret Atwood.