If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic... (read more)
“ Kate Obenshains new book Divider-in-Chief is an outstanding exposé of the hypocrisy, cynicism, and extremism of the Obama administration. He claimed to be a uniter, but Kates book identifies where and how he has been the ultimate... (read more)
This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last... (read more)
Waterboarding Al Qaeda Leaders Prevented Terrorist Attacks and Saved Thousands of Lives… Now Barack Obama Wants to Prosecute The Men and Women Who Kept Us Safe Marc Thiessen knows more than almost anyone outside the CIA about what went on at CIA... (read more)
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at... (read more)
Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child's imagination. There has been a professional reluctance to acknowledge that children could suffer from severe psychotic disorders akin to adult subjects, and... (read more)
Noam Chomsky, one of the worlds most influential living intellectuals, deliberates on the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East, and talks about hopes for future social change in this audio presentation. The renowned foreign policy critic and... (read more)
Kornai presents an assessment of Hungary's transition from a socialist to a market economy. In a comprehensive critique of socialist economy reform, Kornai explains how the system's ideological and political attributes deny the idea of "market socialism."... (read more)
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