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"Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and...
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At a moment of crisis over our national identity, journalist Dan Rather reflects on what it means to be an American. He reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as...
3) On democracy
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"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
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"Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language with which we describe it. Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time....
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¿Por qué tantos catalanes creen que España y Cataluña saldrían ganando si cada una tuviera su propio Estado? ¿Puede un Estado catalán ser "moderno, republicano y más equitativo y eficaz" que el Estado español? ¿Puede contribuir la propuesta catalana a renovar, modernizar y democratizar el relato político español?
Un Estado es una herramienta, un conjunto de instituciones destinadas a legislar, gobernar y atender a los intereses y anhelos...
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La preocupación por el rumbo del país es expansiva. Cada vez más personas se dan cuenta que el gobierno mexicano desea reconstruir un régimen autoritario sin que, por otra parte, se vean siquiera algunos signos alentadores en materia de revertir la pobreza, y no se diga nuestra ancestral desigualdad social.
El presente libro intenta ilustrar la regresión política que estamos viviendo. No es por desgracia una especulación. Los signos que emergen...
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¿Qué es la autoridad? ¿Está realmente en crisis? ¿Es la desobediencia a la autoridad formal un instrumento de cambio? ¿Es posible asumir otros tipos de autoridad distinta a la tradicional?
En pleno siglo XXI, la autoridad tradicional ha sido desplazada por otras formas de poder y liderazgo basadas en la popularidad, la influencia en redes sociales, el descrédito de las instituciones y el control de la información en manos de gigantes tecnológicos....
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Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.
For decades, emancipatory struggles have been deeply influenced by the slogan "Change the world without taking power." Amid growing social inequalities and the return of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize the limits of disengaging from government and the state. From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse...
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This complete summary of "The Assault of Reason" by Al Gore, prominent American political activist and former Vice President, presents his argument that the public and political sphere has degraded into a place that is hostile to reason. He suggests rational debate and clear thinking, instead of campaigns and discussions based on fear and secrecy.
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Essays exploring a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of communism-and the prospects for democracy in that realigned reality.
The breakup of the Soviet Union's external empire in Eastern Europe, soon followed by the demise of the USSR itself, destroyed the bipolar structure that had characterized world politics for almost half a century. But while the dramatic collapse of communism left no room for doubt that the era of the Cold War...
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La primauté du droit domine aujourd'hui notre imagination politique. Mais d'o vient l'attraction exercée par cet idéal évanescent? Que révèle-t-il de nos démocraties, de leurs inquiétudes et de leurs contradictions?
Le présent ouvrage répond à ces questions en revisitant l'oeuvre d'Otto Kirchheimer (1905-1965), juriste hétérodoxe proche du marxisme de l'École de Francfort. Il dessine la trajectoire d'une pensée au contact de l'état...
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"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America—just, fair, and caring—and then to struggle for it."—Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is particularly heartbreaking.
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The must-read summary of Brzezinski and Scowcroft's book: "America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy".
This complete summary of "America and the World" by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, former Democrat and Republican National Security Advisors respectively, reviews their discussion on the most significant foreign policy challenges faced by the United States. It discusses the changing nature of power due...
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Meet the "fast zombie" citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood. Legacy college admissions and status-seekers gobble up his idea of public education, and positional market reductions hollow out his sense of shared goods. Meanwhile, the political debates of his 24-hour-a-day newscycle are picked clean by pundits, tortured by tweets....
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Our country is at a crossroads: One path, fixated on the me, inevitably benefits the powerful and well-connected. But, the other path leads to we, a reinvigoration of community, mutual responsibility, faith in our democratic institutions, and limitless civic power. We can only set ourselves on the right path if we act daily on democracy's behalf. In RECLAIMING WE, Civic Nebraska outlines twenty straightforward steps any American can take to co-create...
16) Summary: Unscientific America: Review and Analysis of Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's Book
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This complete summary of "Unscientific America" by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum presents their argument that science and society are increasingly disconnected and that scientific truth and evidence are decreasingly present in the media and journalism.
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NOTES ON DEMOCRACY by H. L. MENCKEN JONATHAN. Contents include: I DEMOCRATIC MAN 1 HIS APPEARANCE IN THE WORLD 9 2 VARIETIES OF HOMO SAPIENS 15 3 THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 21 POLITICS UNDER DEMOCRACY 29 5 THE ROLE OF THE HORMONES 35 6 ENVY AS A PHILOSOPHY 42 Jx LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC MAN 51 THE EFFECTS UPON PROGRESS 58 9 THE ETERNAL MOB 7 2 II THE DEMOCRATIC STATE 1 THE TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRACY 79 2 THE POPULAR WILL 85 3 DISPROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION 97 4...
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Le 25 juillet 2021, le président Kaïs Saïed décrète l'état d'exception. Il congédie le Chef du gouvernement et gèle le Parlement. Il neutralisera par la suite tous les contrepouvoirs mis en place après la chute de Ben Ali pour empêcher tout retour à l'autoritarisme. Un an après, une nouvelle Constitution est adoptée à une écrasante majorité mais avec seulement 30,5 % de participation. Elle met en place un régime présidentialiste...
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The must-read summary of Anne-Marie Slaughter's book: "The Idea that Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World".
This complete summary of "The Idea that Is America" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, an international lawyer, analyst and political commentator, outlines her examination of how America can stand again for its values — liberty, democracy, equality, justice, tolerance, humility, and faith — in today's world without hypocrisy.
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This complete summary of "The Original Argument" by Glenn Beck, a conservative political commentator and media personality, presents a collection of political essays that defined and shaped the American Constitution and established the balance of power between the rights of states and a large federal government.
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