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In this movie-tie-in released alongside the highly anticipated documentary NO SAFE SPACES, editors Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph compile the most poignant, shocking, and upsetting things they uncovered during their film's investigation of political correctness run amuck on college campuses. With a foreword by Adam Carolla and fascinating interviews with 12 Rules for Life author Jordan Peterson and Not a Daycare author Dr. Everett Piper, NO SAFE SPACES...
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It's a physical thing. The hairs on the back on your arms stand up. You get goosebumps. There's a tingling in your spine. Your heart is racing. Your eyes shine and all your senses are, heightened: sights, sounds, smells are all more intense. Somebody brushes past you, skin on skin, and you feel sparks. Even the acrid rasp of tear gas at the back of your throat becomes addictive, whilst a sip of water has come from the purest mountain spring. You have...
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Over the last thirty years, as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than doubled. Increasingly, we are forced to take on debt to meet our needs-from housing, to education, to medical care. The results-wrecked lives, devastated communities, and an increasing reliance on credit to maintain our basic living standards-reveal an economic system that enriches the few at the expense of the many.
The Debt Resisters' Operations...
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Constitutional democracy is not just any old form of democracy. It has a peculiar logic and is premised upon some exacting criteria and principles including good laws and institutions predicated on specific fundamental core values and principles. But it is, when fully ingrained in the public sensibility, a sort of civic serum necessary to inoculate free citizens against the ravages of anti-democratic populism, authoritarianism, racism, nativism, discrimination,...
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Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action.
Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous...
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Aquesta publicació reuneix les tesis defensades a la jornada celebrada al 2015 entre la Universitat de Valencia i el collectiu d'instituts d'estudis comarcals i municipals, centrada en un tema clau i d'actualitat com és l'anàlisi i debat al voltant dels resultats de les eleccions locals de 2015 i les seues repercussions territorials en l'escala local valenciana. El llibre recull les reflexions territorials dels instituts i docents participants...
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El estudio de los procesos de nacionalización, esto es, de la difusión social de las identidades nacionales, es uno de los aspectos centrales para el campo de investigación dedicado al nacionalismo. Sin embargo, se trata de un ámbito que cuenta todavía con una relativa escasez de trabajos, especialmente cuando se aborda desde una perspectiva comparada. El presente volumen se dedica al estudio de los procesos de nacionalización en los marcos...
11) The Future of Social Democracy: Essays to Mark the 40th Anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration
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2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats. To mark this important milestone, this book brings together prominent politicians from across the spectrum of social democracy to reflect on its history and the challenges it faces in the coming decades. With an introduction by Sir Vince Cable describing the current state of...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land by Instaread Preview: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right describes a liberal sociologist's journey toward understanding the emotional appeal of the Tea Party. Author Arlie Russell Hochschild, who is based in Berkeley, California, traveled to the American South to speak with more than 60 men and women who identified with the Tea Party....
14) Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring
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This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?
Arms and the People explores the impact of social extremes on the solidarity within the state's military, and on the changing loyalties of these soldiers. The authors examine a series of historical moments in which a...
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The question of economic transformation is an immediate and practical one for the English-speaking Caribbean. In the postindependence period, Caribbean governments seemed blissfully unaware that the inability to transform their economies was leading to serious unemployment problems. The statistics are quite stark. Unemployment rates in the Caribbean range from 6% in the more prosperous states to 23% in the less prosperous ones. This use of economic...
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Summary of Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza | Includes Analysis Preview: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is a history of the Democratic Party, which author Dinesh D'Souza argues is the source of all evil and iniquity in American history. Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, is a crook who entered politics for personal gain. As such, she is the natural representative of the corrupt Democratic...
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What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In originalism: a quarter-century of debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country.
This is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions...
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The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on the Great Recession as a political crisis, one with...
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En una época en qué eliminar servicios públicos se presenta como la solución a todos los problemas económicos, el desmantelamiento de RTVV se ha convertido en un símbolo. «Adéu, RTVV» desvela la estrategia para saquear la radiotelevisión pública valenciana. Una compilación de artículos apasionados y comprometidos, escritos mientras se diseñaba y ejecutaba el ERE, que plantean muchas preguntas y ofrecen algunas respuestas.
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