Politics

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts. Tetlock first dis...

In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming.Technology, has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age government, political parties, the media.The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgen...

Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Week...

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Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourthhighest per capita real incomeThe story of th...

"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century." ?Rachel Maddow, author of Drift Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair?s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger?all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his sta...

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the “unconstrained” vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically ...

Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom d...

Now a National Bestseller!Evangelicals are losing the culture war. What if it?s their faultIn 2016, writer and filmmaker Ben Howe found himself disillusioned with the religious movement he?d always called home. In the pursuit of electoral victory, many American evangelicals embraced moral relativism and toxic partisanship.Whatever happened to the ...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated ...

NATIONAL BEST SELLERFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a singleengine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problemsfrom economic dislocation to the opioid scourgebut it is also crafting solutions, with a practicalminded determination at dramatic...

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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on EarthBig Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All Rachel Maddow’s Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oilandgas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey...

With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, twotime NYT bestselling author, syndicated columnist, National Review senior editor, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and ...

Health care is the largest employer in America, one of the largest perceived drains on the budget of the Federal government, a system with the capacity to bankrupt entire state economies, and one of the areas of personal expenditure that gives individual American citizens most financial anxiety. It matters like almost no other dimension of the gove...

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the altright, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history....

Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals neverbeforepublished details about the Obama administration's political inner workings, as well as Barack and Michelle's personal lives....

More than four billion people?some 60 percent of humanity?live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the de...

I have learned that the story of a nations success, and the success of each one of us, is a slow awakening to the timeless value of the long game.In October 1984, a hardcharging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign, the young Republ...

A major new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich in the lead up to World War II On a September day in 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the teeming crowd assembled on the airfield. Chamberlain had just returned from Munich, where he had averted the greatest crisis of the century. H...

Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance or, at least, contemporary understandings of tolerance is exactly what D. A . Carson does.Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have com...

Once described by the Washington Post as ?the most interesting mayor you?ve never heard of,? Pete Buttigieg, the thirtysevenyearold mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation?s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic transformation ...

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation?s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people o...

The Age of Reason represents the results of years of study and reflection by Thomas Paine on the place of religion in society.Paine wrote: "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue u...

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC?s Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America?s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that define...

The congressional agenda, Frances Lee contends, includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. What explains this discord Beyond Ideology argues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than ...

?Fascists,? ?Brownshirts,? ?jackbooted stormtroopers??such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on th...

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A smart and revealing political memoir from a rising star of the Democratic Party.Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote and a bold new voice ...

In this inspirational and moving memoirreminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Houractivist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon runs on the California coast and holding his newborn son, Carl. But...

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one?s will ...

What keeps us going when times get tough How do we keep on working for a more humane world, no matter how hard it sometimes seems In a time when our involvement has never been needed more, this anthology of political hope will help readers with the essential work of healing our communities, our nation, our planetdespite all odds. In THE IMPOSSIBL...

Meticulously scrutinizes the social and political consequences of our increasingly digitized world.' KirkusThe internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad me...

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which perio...

Author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Against All Enemies," former presidential advisor and counterterrorism expert Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict....

What is the motive to the secret ballot This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in concert against other pers...

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Democracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fearmongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests and pointscoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis ? and an ancient remedy. In this ingenious book, David Van Reybrouck reminds...

The first full lifeprivate, public, legal, philosophicalof the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her friend...

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States?winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others?that reminds us of fundamental American principles.?Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided natio...

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified thendiminishin...

Compellingly written and evenhanded in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the ensuing periodthe descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the AngloIrish accord, the bombers in...

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out....

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and selfdriving cars, even as we use augmentedre...

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeincluding how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and...

From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conve...

"Stitched Up" delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation....