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The extraordinary inside story of the UK's response to the coronavirus pandemic from the country's most reputable investigative journalist unit at . recounts the extraordinary political decisions taken at the heart of Boris Johnson's government during the global pandemic. Meticulously researched and corroborated by hundreds of inside sources, politicians, emergency planners, scientists, doctors, paramedics and bereaved families, along with leaked...
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It doesn't take a genius to realize America's political system is broken. Congress is hopelessly divided, doesn't represent the people who elected them, and is mired in gridlock. Our presidential elections involve picking between the better of two evils. But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if politicians actually represented the people who elected them, rather than the special interests that line their pockets? What if we could actually...
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Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death.
With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view of Marx in three key ways. First, he shows that the concern with the relation of theory to practice-reflected...
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In this book I look back at several decades in the late 20th Century and describe them as adolescent growing pains. After WW II America was on a winning streak, amassing fortunes from innovations in manufacturing, agriculture, medicine and science. We sent men to the Moon, we saved millions of lives with medical inventions, with labor saving machines, and we learned how to get the best out of the worlds largest and most diverse "Melting Pot" of cultures...
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Most of us are simply too busy to notice the ropes with which society binds us. We don't so much as blink at the billions our governments spend on defending us from our enemies. We have grown so familiar with the homeless people who line our streets at night that some of us no longer even question why theirs is a problem no government has yet been able to solve. And we're so preoccupied with making sure our children do their homework that we never...
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A deft selection of unpublished and little-known works by F. A. Hayek that will serve to enlighten and enliven debates around the ever-changing face of Western liberalism
Across seventeen volumes to date, the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series has anthologized the diverse and prolific writings of the Austrian economist synonymous with classical liberalism. Essays on Liberalism and the Economy traces the author's...
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A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume
In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential...
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Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government-hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Aristotle's time and in ours, democrats want inclusiveness; they want above all to include everyone a part of a whole. But what makes a whole? This is a question for both politics and philosophy, and Winthrop...
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A comienzos de 2023, en un foro sobre la concentración del poder público y el creciente autoritarismo que está experimentándose en México, el gran politólogo polaco Adam Przeworski hizo un diagnóstico contundente: por los graves riesgos a la convivencia política presente y futura, en México el daño ya está hecho. Extendiendo esa idea a otros ámbitos de la vida pública, en estas páginas se hace un balance, casi final, de la presente administración....
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Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire quand un peuple habituellement placide se retrouve dans la rue? Quand la rage et les larmes de colère nous empêchent de dormir, de travailler? Quand des envies de tout changer, des désirs de révolution s'emparent de nous? Comment concilier dans ce mouvement de révolte le politique et le personnel, l'engagement et la recherche d'une certaine sérénité? De la grève étudiante et les grandes manifestations du printemps...
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The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
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For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents' interests? How can representatives balance the desires of their parties and their electors? What should be done to strengthen the representation of groups that have been excluded from the political system? Representative democracy itself...
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"Understanding Freedom in America: Spirit of Democracy" delves into the profound and multifaceted concept of freedom within the United States, examining its historical roots, constitutional foundations, and contemporary challenges. The book takes readers on a comprehensive journey, exploring the evolution of freedom from the nation's founding to the present day. With a keen focus on the spirit of democracy, the author analyzes landmark moments, constitutional...
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When Bush came to office in 2001, the 10-year budget balance was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5.6 trillion. But after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11on the economy, the surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected to grow to $ 5-trillion over the next decade. The domestic deficit is only the half of it. Given our $500 billion trade deficit and our anemic savings...
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Heinrich Meier's work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In The Lesson of Carl Schmitt, Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as political theology-that is, political theorizing that claims to have its ultimate ground in the revelation of a mysterious or suprarational God. This radical, but half-hidden, theological foundation underlies...
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Five years ago, Dr. Thomas Masters, gifted historian, wrote a classical text, NO MORE, highlighting 100 of the major societal issues facing America and, most importantly, offering valid, pragmatic solutions to those problems. The book pulled no punches in its themes of restoring common sense to American society.
NATION BROKEN is the long-awaited follow-up to NO MORE. This sequel examines in depth the major societal divides, currently 12, that...
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La démocratie va mal. Menacée par la manipulation de l'opinion publique et la montée d'un certain populisme aux relents autoritaires, entre autres choses, elle parait d'autant plus fragile que l'on participe souvent soi-même à son érosion, sans s'en rendre compte. Il ne sera toutefois pas aisé de la réparer, une fois qu'elle aura été brisée pour de bon. La démocratie vise pourtant un idéal qui mérite d'être vigoureusement défendu:...