Political Science

In What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out. that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own. interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why. As it turns out, human beings are not the rational creatures. we’ve so long imagined ourselves to be. Ideas, morals, and values. do not exist somewhere outside the body, ready to be examined and. put to use. Instead, they exist quite literally inside the brain—and. they take physical shape there. For example, we form particular. kinds of narratives in our minds just like we form specific muscle. memories such as typing or dancing, and then we fit new information. into those narratives. Getting that information out of one narrative. type and into another—or building a whole new narrative. altogether—can be as hard as learning to play the banjo. Changing. your mind isn’t like changing your body—it’s the same thing. But as long as progressive politicians and activists persist in. believing that people use an objective system of reasoning to decide. on their politics, the Democrats will continue to lose elections. They. must wrest control of the terms of the debate from their opponents. rather than accepting their frame and trying to argue within it. This passionate, erudite, and groundbreaking book will appeal. to readers of Steven Pinker and Thomas Frank. It is a fascinating. read for anyone interested in how the mind works, how society. works, and how they work together. more...

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Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government— The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about American power. In this explosive new book, the legendary Jim Marrs, author of the underground bestseller Rule by Secrecy , reveals the frighteningly real possibility that today the United States is becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of an ideology thought to have been vanquished more than a half century ago. This concept may seem absurd to those who cannot see past the rose-colored spin, hype, and disinformation poured out daily by the media conglomerates—most of which are owned by the very same families and corporations who supported the Nazis before World War II. But as Marrs precisely explains, National Socialism never died, but rather its hideous philosophy is alive and active in modern America. Unfortunately, most people cannot understand the shadowy links between fascism and corporate power, the military, and our elected leaders. While the United States helped defeat the Germans in World War II, we failed to defeat the Nazis. At the end of the war, ranking Nazis, along with their young and fanatical protégés, used the loot of Europe to create corporate front companies in many countries, including the United States of America. Utilizing their stolen wealth, men with Nazi backgrounds and mentalities wormed their way into corporate America, slowly buying up and consolidating companies into giant multinational conglomerates. Many thousands of other Nazis came to the United States under classified programs such as Project Paperclip. They brought with them miraculous weapon technology that helped win the space race but they also brought their insidious Nazi philosophy within our borders. This ideology based on the authoritarian premise that the end justifies the means—including unpr more...

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As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, this gripping account of a president at war describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008. more...

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A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation’s past. Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects. As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample:. • The founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between church and state. • Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers. • Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with “atomic diplomacy”. • Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War. America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught. more...

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How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China. more...

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