The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics argues that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Kent Deng finds the book launches a devastating critique of ...
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Press 1 for Democracy will center on the issues of the day most germane to the Party's core objectives. Via Joseph Pomponio
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Informative incite with a concept and hope to facilitate solutions to the problems we face in government. Tune in and be informed. Delete the scoop?
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New comment: New Book: Whistle Blower Exposes the Truth Behind the Causes of the Financial Crisis, Obl http://t.co/NGEuStpe #money #WSOAlert Delete the scoop?
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Book Review: Europe's Unfinished Currency: The Political Economics of the Euro CFA Institute Enterprising Investor (blog) In Europe's Unfinished Currency: The Political Economics of the Euro, Thomas Mayer, a senior fellow at the Center for... Delete the scoop?
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How has the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision changed campaigns in America? This piece looks into the Montana's bipartisan effort to regulate political spending by corporations."
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Book Review: Total Recall by Arnold SchwarzeneggerSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)While the life that Mr. Delete the scoop?
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What Is PolicyMic?One Millennial's Book Hightlights a New Platform Dedicated ...PolicyMicThe book hits the nail on the head capturing how our platform works, "PolicyMic is unique in the way they engage their users to participate in political debates... Delete the scoop?
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Carl Anderson, head of the Knights of Columbus, released an e-book of his three recent major speeches on responsibility in the voting booth, asserting that Catholics can transform politics by withholding votes from ... Delete the scoop?
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Among the legacies of David Foster Wallace, the pioneering postmodernist who produced influential essays, short stories and the novel “Infinite Jest” before his 2008 suicide, count this: Antonin Scalia, author. Delete the scoop?
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"Political historians should be excited about the tensions between competing approaches to America": http://t.co/q59h1Jz0... Delete the scoop?
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The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics argues that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Kent Deng finds the book launches a devastating critique of ...
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The book is tailored to meet the requirements mainly of first year undergraduate students with limited knowledge of the British political life. That is mainly for two reasons: first, the book provides information rather than critically ... Delete the scoop?
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For anyone interested in Libyan public opinion, a book review I wrote of Mabroka al-Werfalli's very useful book entitled, Political alienation in Libya: (Warshel’s book review of al-Werfalli’s "Political Alienation in Libya" in JNAS is... Delete the scoop?
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The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents Linda Killian St. Martin’s Press 326 pages Hardcover/$25.99 by MICHAEL CHARNEY Politics seems like a full-on contact sport these days, and, as Linda Killian points out in her excellent new book, The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents, the center is where all the action is. Yet somehow the center—the 40% of the body politic that claims to be moderate and/or independent—has been manipulated out of its political power, it’s political voice.
Through carefully crafted two-party machinations that have compounded over many years, many centrists are relegated to the sidelines when it comes to the important process of selecting party candidates or—as importantly—mounting opposition to the two-party status quo.
“If a minority group were getting shut out of full participation in the political process,” Killian writes, “there would be a huge outcry. But Independent voters are far from a minority group. There are more of them that either Democrats or Republicans.” [MORE] Delete the scoop?
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Journalists will have to learn how to produce analytic journalism for the popular news audience, most of which does not read political books or magazine articles. A good deal of experimenting may be needed before analytic ... Delete the scoop?
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Book offers political insightFamuanWith the political season in full effect, many people have already decided whom they'll vote for. Delete the scoop?
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The nod from Barnes and Noble, The Hillary Effect the only political book chosen out of 4 to launch their NOOK featured authors selection, wouldn't have happened without all these wonderful people on board, for which I'm ... Delete the scoop?
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Independent OnlineMotlanthe hopes book will raise questionsIndependent Online“It is important the book should raise the questions that pull us out of our comfort zones,” he told a packed hall at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. Delete the scoop?
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Comicbook.com (blog)President Barack Obama Fights Mitt Romney On Comic Book CoverComicbook.com (blog)Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been featured in comic books in the past, but a new comic book by Bluewater Productions certainly... Delete the scoop?
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... of Angelkov (Random House Canada), a story set in 1860s Russia. Linda talks to Open Book about her family connection to the book's subject matter, Russia's unique political history and her sunny writing environment. Delete the scoop?
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The Bon Mot Book Club – Dr. Dambisa Moyo political books. Image by Urban Mixer In her latest book, Zambian-born and raised Dambisa Moyo gives a bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy and ... Delete the scoop?
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"A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off ...
MARIA POPOVA, brainpickings.org
A reader recently wrote me to lightly criticize the fact that I called George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four “cult-classics,” suggesting that they instead merit the inferior term “required reading.” So what, exactly, is a classic, and why should we care?
Richard J. Smith, in discussing the iconic ancient Chinese Book of Changes, offered a four-point checklist definition and Simon Crtichley showed us how to read them. But perhaps the most essential question is why the classics should be read. That’s exactly what beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino addresses in his 1991 book Why Read the Classics? (public library) — a sort of “classic” in its own right. In this collection of essays on classical literature, Calvino also produces these 14 definitions of a “classic”:
1. The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: 'I'm rereading…', never 'I'm reading….'
2. The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
3. The classics are books which exercise a particular influence, both when they imprint themselves on our imagination as unforgettable, and when they hide in the layers of memory disguised as the individual's or the collective unconscious.
4. A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. [more on the link .. ] Delete the scoop?
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In the spirit of this week's holiday, I recently asked various Times staffers to recommend books about American political figures. Their answers are below. On Twitter, I'll be asking readers for their own suggestions, a selection ... Delete the scoop?
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1. The corrupting influence of money in politics. 2. The Internet.
Lessig’s conversation with America has always been a two-way street — whether through The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, through his public speaking engagements, or through his writing. And, in revolutionary times, things happen fast. Thus, right on the heels of his 369 page masterpiece Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It, Lessig released today a 73-page e-book called One Way Forward($1.99, Byliner). Here he explains why: First the good news: For the first time in a hundred years, we have the technology to empower ordinary citizens to be engaged and passionate about their government again. Now the bad news: The business model for this engagement, of the entities that build these movements of passion, whether for profit or not for profit, make it extremely hard to imagine them ever working together on anything. The DNA of America is a house divided. A Civil War without guns. Just at the time technology enables us the most, the business model of hate disables us the most. Unless we can find a way around it. Lessig points out that our country is polarized by design, and decodes how this came to be. “As competition within media has intensified, so the drive to polarize has increased as well. Commercial media needs devoted listeners; devotion is most extreme at the extremes.” His concern is that the dominance of partisan news entertainment, as well as polarizing electioneering strategies, decreases civic participation by alienating the public. This in turn limits the conversation to people who can stomach the vitriol and are “obsessed with the horse race of politics” and “the pathetic drama” of power struggle. In our own circles, it may seem like this is the majority of America, but it is not. Our struggle to restore self-governance requires reinforcements. [MORE] Delete the scoop?
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