By Ron | Mar 15, 2020
As always, inclusion does not imply agreement.
Books on Democracy
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A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
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African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
by Larry Ward
Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward on breaking America’s cycle of racial trauma.
An American Dilemma
Attention Deficit Democracy
by James Bovard
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August 1914
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Blood in the Sand
Citizen and Subject
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy
Corporation Nation
Cruel and Unusual
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Dark Times
by Ken Coates
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Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom
by Aryeh Neier
Democracia Y Mercado
Democracy and Development
Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution Through Binary Economics
Democracy and Populism
by John Lukacs
Democracy and the Police
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Democracy in America
Democratic Realism
Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship
by Michael Radu
Diminished Democracy
Empire
Escape From the Ivory Tower
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
by Noam Chomsky
Freedom and Time
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Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
by J.M. Coetzee
Globalizing Civil Society
by David Korten
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
Published January 14, 2020
by Kazu Haga
In Kingian Nonviolence, a philosophy developed out of the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., there is a distinction made between nonviolence spelled with a hyphen, and nonviolence spelled without a hyphen. “Non-violence” is essentially two words: “without” “violence.” When spelled this way, it only describes the absence of violence. As long as I am “not being violent,” I am practicing non-violence. And that is the biggest misunderstanding of nonviolence that exists.
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy
Hidden Power
History and Illusion in Politics
Homegrown Democrat
How to Cure a Fanatic
by Amos Oz
In Defense of Anarchism
It Can Happen Here
by Joe Conason
Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851
John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority-Rule
La Seconde Revolution Tranquille
Making Democracy Work
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Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky
Never Again
Never at War
New Communitarian Thinking
New Federalist Papers
On Democracy
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On Liberty
Parchment, Guns, and Constitutional Order
Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe
People Before Profit
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
by Donald Kagan
Political Man
Politics Lost: From RFK to W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested in Keeping Power Than in Doing What’s Right for America
by Joe Klein
Power Kills
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Public Choice and Public Law
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Public Opinion
Religion in the Public Square
by Robert Audi
Rights vs. Public Safety After 9/11
Secret Trials and Executions
Take Back Your Government
Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
Terrorism for Humanity
The Age of Reform
The American Statehouse
The Challenge of Democracy
The Dissent of the Governed
The End of Kings
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The European Dream
The Friendly Dictatorship
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
The Global Third Way Debate
The Government We Deserve: Responsive Democracy and Changing Expectations
The Mainspring of Human Progress
The Master Switch
by Tim Wu
The New Golden Rule
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The New Industrial State
The Open Space of Democracy
The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls
The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust
by John Judis
The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century
by Mark Mazower
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The Port Huron Statement
by Tom Hayden
A broad critique of the political and social system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and economic justice. The writers took issue with the US government’s handling of the Cold War,both the existential threat of nuclear war, and the actual arms race. It also critiqued endemic racial discrimination, economic inequality, big business domination, trade union quiescence, and the cooption of political parties. It suggested a series of reforms: including the need to create genuine political parties, to attain greater democracy, to achieve more substantial involvement by workers in business management, and to enlarge the public sector with increased government welfare, including a “program against poverty.” The document advocated nonviolent civil disobedience to bring forth greater “participatory democracy.”
The Powers and Aims of Western Democracy
The Press and the Decline of Democracy
The Promise of American Life
The Public and Its Problems
by John Dewey
The Revolt of the Elites
The Road to Illegitimacy
by Mark Danner
The Russian Tradition
The Story of American Freedom
by Eric Foner
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Third Way and Its Critics
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
by Gary B. Nash
The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite, 1945-1963
The Wheels of Commerce
V D Nabokov and the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
by V D Nabokov
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Waves of Democracy
by John Markoff
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We the People
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Young America
Afterword
by Howard Zinn
Zinn’s final word for his seminal book, A People’s History of the United States.
A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Hau De No Saw Nee Address to the Western World
Published Geneva, Switzerland, Autumn 1977
by Mohawk Nation
What is presented here is nothing less audacious than a cosmogony of the Industrialized World presented by the most politically powerful and independent non-Western political body surviving in North America. It is, in a way, the modern world through Pleistocene eyes.
Democracy in America
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy
New Federalist Papers
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defenders
The Public and Its Problems
by John Dewey
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
by Sean Wilentz
We the People
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
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Democracy and Education
Published 1916
by John Dewey
First published in 1916, John Dewey’s Democracy and Education is regarded as the seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century. In this classic work Dewey addresses the serious challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. He calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society.
Diminished Democracy
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