These texts are influential not because they are careful, but because they reduce complexity into reassuring coherence. They are useful to study precisely for how they foreclose uncertainty.
Francis Fukuyama — The End of History and the Last Man
Samuel P. Huntington — The Clash of Civilizations
Jared Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel
Steven Pinker — The Better Angels of Our Nature
Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens
Thomas L. Friedman — The World Is Flat
Niall Ferguson — Empire