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Two months before the 2016 presidential election, an anonymously published essay titled "The Flight 93 Election" rallied conservatives to charge the cockpit by voting for Trump. Michael Anton, the author of that controversial viral essay, now says that the last few years have only served to prove his Flight 93 thesis: The left has become more aggressive, more vindictive, and more dangerous - and the stakes have never been higher.
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America, this is your future
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist, and best-selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition - we're working harder than ever to avoid change.
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MUST READ
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Very good
- By Brad on 07-04-19
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Dear White America
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White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, and a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.
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Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
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By: Thomas Sowell
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America - including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity.
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Let's talk truth!
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A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
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The BEST book, I've listened to in a long time
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A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high - in wealth, freedom, and social stability - and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations.
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Do laudable ends justify unconstitutional means?
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50 Economics Classics
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Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great books and seminal ideas, clarified and illuminated for all.
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America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past 30 years, American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal's achievements. Now, the tide may be turning, and in The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform.
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Great Book!!!
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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While I agree with most of this book,...
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great book
so much good data is presented that I'm going to have to read it again.
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Good use of data
I wish we were all looking at the same underlying data related to this very important topic. Without the data, I worry that we will empathize the wrong policies and end up in no better or even a worse position than we are now. It feels that Sowell is warning us of this.
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- 09-15-20
Simply Brilliant!
This book is so amazing! Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest economist of our generation.
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- brian anderson
- 03-14-21
Profound
Replace gym in school with this book. wait wait. they already got rid of gym.
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- Adam Johns
- 12-12-20
A must read for every social justice warrior
Maybe if the leftist, equality-of-outcome academic would read the truth, we could see the solutions to the problems big-government has created and stop pushing for the government to try to solve those problems, because they only keep getting worse when that happens... Einstein’s definition of insanity is applicable.
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- Leanne Vogel
- 10-03-20
such a POWERFUL message backed by FACT
I wish I could ask that everyone in North America read this book with an open mind and heart. it has the power (through actual fact) to change lives and adjust our future. I'm so happy I took a chance on this book. it's shifted so much of how I see the world and I am forever grateful.
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- M. Docter
- 08-05-20
Mr. Sowell has done it again
Once again I am in awe of this man and how he uses facts and historical evidence to set up his argument.
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- Steeler fan Tom
- 01-16-21
Mandatory reading
Such a logical take on an emotional subject. Should be required reading by every high school student.
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- DON JUNGQUIST
- 08-22-18
Amazing book
This is vintage Thomas Sowell, giving you more of what you need to navigate the maze of P.C. culture and other Leftist nonsense. Use this book to help arm yourself for the war of ideas.
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- M.W.C.
- 03-29-18
Thomas Sowell, brilliant as always
Absolutely fantastic book. Thomas Sowell is the most brilliant thinker America has ever produced. All of his works, including this, are groundbreaking and brilliant. No one digs deeper into a situation to find out what is really going on than Tomas Sowell.
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