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It’s natural to attribute the surety of right wing convictions to billionaire funded deliberate disinformation that is replicated inside the replay bubble of conservative media and nationalist pulpits—although these are all active factors, they would not have the effect they do on their audiences without some cultural preconditions to believe them. The foundation of these …
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Book Review: The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells Set in the far distant future with sentient machines, device-augmented humans, and human-machine “constructs” that are essentially persons in their own right, including machines that have human-like relationships with each other, Martha Wells brings to life in the Murderbot Diaries series a dystopian yet hopeful vision …
Book Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth To defeat the machine, the West must be superseded. This is not a book for the faint of heart, as Paul Kingsnorth presents in well researched detail how the Technocracy casts disruptive innovation in a sort of secular faith, which promises freedom …
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Book Review: The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding by Osita Nwanevu Examining the true motivations for political power This book takes the ax to the root of the tree. Here, Osita Nwanevu exposes the underlying true concerns of the drafters of the US Constitution—and control of democracy …
Book Review: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang Refutes Christian Nationalism with the Bible itself Contained herein is more Bible than any church service—and in proper context. In this book, John Fugelsang incisively and thoroughly (as well as …
Book Review: Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds by Sarah Stein Lubrano The points made in this book by Sarah Stein Lubrano may for some people seem counterintuitive—they also are spot on. Stein Lubrano illustrates that logical arguments made from any point of view are essentially dead on arrival in the ears …
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Book Review: America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin Bartolomé de las Casas over Milton Friedman This book will both break your heart and stir up righteous anger as it chronicles one failure after another to turn the advance of European conquest of the Western Hemisphere from exploitation and enslavement …
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Book Review: The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity by Michael Tomasky This book is standing the test of time, as it still is fully relevant and practical today as it was when it was written during the Biden Administration. Michael Tomasky’s projections of what would happen in …
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Book Review: The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward by Malcolm Foley Malcolm Foley makes clear in this book that the foundation of racism and its resultant economic suffering emanates from the effective worship of power and money by …
Book Review: How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra The subtitle of this book, referring to systems that shape our world, describes the understated significance of infrastructure. Deb Chachra takes material that is fascinating from an engineering perspective alone, and presents it in its essential societal significance. Infrastructure drives …
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