UUJECby Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, 2023 A Review The authors of this book, who are in favor of a multiracial (probably a multicultural) democracy, show us how… Continue Reading The Tyranny of the Minority
by Francis Fukuyama, 2002 A Review: Enlightenment Principles Sure Beat Identity Politics, but We Need Global Principles to Survive Fukuyama adopts a welcome centrist approach to classical liberalism:… Continue Reading Liberalism and its Discontents
A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 The “these truths” in this book’s title refer to the truths enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. Lepore… Continue Reading These Truths
by Stephen Kinzer, 2017 The Spanish-American war was fought to expand America’s sphere of influence and footprint. There was a major battle between those who wanted an American… Continue Reading The True Flag
by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinett, 2017 Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy (2017), by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island with Melanie Wachtell Stinett,… Continue Reading Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
The Denominational Affairs Committee at First Parish in Concord, Massachusetts embraced the 2014 UUA Congregational Study Action Issue of Escalating Inequality and sponsored activities in 2014 and 2015… Continue Reading Reclaim Our Democracy
by Mark Engler and Paul Engler, 2016 We want justice, when do we want it? NOW! But that’s not how justice works; it is a long tedious slog.… Continue Reading This is an Uprising
Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice Mary Mellor, 2016 Question: Do you know how most money is created today? Answer: It emerges “out of thin air”, by… Continue Reading Debt or Democracy – Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice