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Book Review: Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It by Heather Boushey Well done taking dry left brain data and putting meaningful right brain meat on its bones. Heather Boushey brilliantly deconstructs how market libertarians have misappropriated Adam Smith for their own ideology of selfish gain at the expense …
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Book Review: We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump by Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin This book is a practical, well researched, no-nonsense presentation of the problem, the solutions, and powerful answers to the naysayers. Here you will find the essential way forward to addressing the observations and implementing the theories of all the …
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Book Review: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner This book pulls no punches, as Robert Kuttner identifies the guilty parties in the ongoing global heist from the non-rich to the rich. Kuttner even criticizes Thomas Piketty on some points—from a progressive perspective! Here you will find comprehensive documented details showing how business as …
Book Review: Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious by Lucinda Jackson It’s the culture, stupid; and that must change with all the other causal elements so women and men can live and work together in peace and harmony as whole persons. Lucinda Jackson, in authentic first person testimony, recounts the sexual attacks on …
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Book Review: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris This is why we can’t have nice things. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in a digital war zone with packets of cyber ordnance landing all around us and on us. You might not be hearing physical explosions just yet, but …
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Book Review: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris Through an anecdotal style, Harris articulates the clearest and most common-sense policy you will find anywhere. On issues including law enforcement, education, drug and prison reform, banking, and immigration, the reader is sure to see a coherent vision of the most effective means …
Book Review: People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz Here is government policy ready-made for implementation. Through solid argument and historical example, Joseph E. Stiglitz demonstrates that the solution is Keynesian—government unapologetically has an indispensable role in the well-being of everyone, including the rich in a fair …
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Book Review: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond Listen to your adversaries! No, really listen—not necessarily to abandon your position and adopt theirs, but to understand their perspective (whether flawed or not) and so increase your ability to communicate productively with them. This is the take away from Jared Diamond’s description of …
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Book Review: The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson As a comprehensive collection and analysis of scholarly research, this book is an essential supplement to your secondary school education (and probably that from college too) about the French Revolution. Don’t venture citing the French Revolution without first reading this complete and objective history …
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Book Review: Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century by Mark Blyth An excellent history lesson on how New Deal values began to be eroded, a process that accelerated in the 1970s. Documents how public acquiescence to supply side economics was no accident, but instead was the result of deliberate well funded …