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    The New Language of Capitalism

    by John Patrick Leary ...
    "A clever, even witty examination of the manipulation of language in these days of neoliberal or late stage capitalism" ( Counterpunch).From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to be curators of an ever-expanding roster of competencies, and to become resilient and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keywords for Capitalism

    Power, Society, Politics

    by John Patrick Leary ...
    From liberal to the economy the terms used by pundits and politicians to explain our civic structures tend to obscure as much as they reveal about the reality they ostensibly describe. Yet the enduring vocabulary of radical movement-building can be equally opaque when filtered through both the distortions of the status quo and the partisan interests of the activist left. How do we make sense of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Underdevelopment

    Latin America in the U.S. Imagination

    by John Patrick Leary ...
    Series series New World Studies
    A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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    The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

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    A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift ... Read more

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  • The Once and Future Liberal

    After Identity Politics

    by Mark Lilla ...
    "Terrific . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we arrived in the Trump era and where the Democrats go from here." —Fareed Zakaria, CNNFollowing the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such vitriol, panic, and debate as Mark Lilla's. The Once and Future Liberal is a ... Read more

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  • What Is Populism?

    by Jan-Werner Müller, Jan-Werner Muller ...
    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

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    The Folly of Technological Solutionism

    by Evgeny Morozov ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once ... Read more

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  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

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    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

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  • In Defense of a Liberal Education

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition.**The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While ... Read more

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  • Not Here

    Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

    by Rob Goodman ...
    What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics.As a congressional staffer in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and brought America to the brink of a coup. Now, as a political theorist ... Read more

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  • The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    by Richard Sennett ...
    A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingIn The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising ... Read more

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  • No More Work

    Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea

    by James Livingston ...
    For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance—in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat, or else you must be stealing from someone. According to such pieties, if you truly worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In ... Read more

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