Juridik

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Juridik Boksammanfattningar

The Law

av Frédéric Bastiat • 1849

Law exists to prevent harm, not to do good. Everything beyond self-defense is legalized theft.

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🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Limited Government 🌿 Natural Rights 🕊️ Laissez-Faire 🔴 Critique Of Socialism

The Law

Law exists to prevent harm, not to do good. Everything beyond self-defense is legalized theft.

av Frédéric Bastiat 1849 61 sidor

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🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Limited Government 🌿 Natural Rights 🕊️ Laissez-Faire 🔴 Critique Of Socialism

Founding Faith

av Steven Waldman • 2008

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

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🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

Founding Faith

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

av Steven Waldman 2008 304 sidor

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🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

On History

av Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1997

Scotland's ships were built by war and state meddling: bounties, blockades, tobacco, and smuggling.

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🚢 Maritime History 📈 Economic History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 💰 Mercantilism 🥷 Smuggling

On History

Scotland's ships were built by war and state meddling: bounties, blockades, tobacco, and smuggling.

av Eric J. Hobsbawm 1997 416 sidor

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🚢 Maritime History 📈 Economic History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 💰 Mercantilism 🥷 Smuggling

The Indispensable Right

av Jonathan Turley • 2024

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

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📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Indispensable Right

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

av Jonathan Turley 2024 432 sidor

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📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

Freezing Order

av Bill Browder • 2022

A murdered lawyer, a trillion in dirty money, and the man Putin tried to trade for spies.

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🐻 Russian Corruption 💰 Money Laundering 🔍 Forensic Accounting 🩸 Political Killings 🕵️ Kremlin Intrigue

Freezing Order

A murdered lawyer, a trillion in dirty money, and the man Putin tried to trade for spies.

av Bill Browder 2022 332 sidor

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🐻 Russian Corruption 💰 Money Laundering 🔍 Forensic Accounting 🩸 Political Killings 🕵️ Kremlin Intrigue

Autoškola? Pohodlně! 2019

av Zdeněk Schröter • 2012

The Czech driver's manual that teaches the test, then teaches what the test forgets.

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🚗 Driver Education 🛡️ Defensive Driving 🆕 New Drivers 📝 Driving Test Prep 🧠 Driver Psychology

Autoškola? Pohodlně! 2019

The Czech driver's manual that teaches the test, then teaches what the test forgets.

av Zdeněk Schröter 2012

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🚗 Driver Education 🛡️ Defensive Driving 🆕 New Drivers 📝 Driving Test Prep 🧠 Driver Psychology

Oligarchy

av Jeffrey A. Winters • 2011

Oligarchy isn't rule by the few. It's wealth defense. That's why democracy doesn't end it.

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🏛️ Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🗳️ Political Power 💸 Tax Avoidance 🌍 Comparative Politics

Oligarchy

Oligarchy isn't rule by the few. It's wealth defense. That's why democracy doesn't end it.

av Jeffrey A. Winters 2011 344 sidor

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🏛️ Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🗳️ Political Power 💸 Tax Avoidance 🌍 Comparative Politics

The Business of America is Lobbying

av Lee Drutman • 2015

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

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🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Business of America is Lobbying

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

av Lee Drutman 2015 269 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

av Wendy Brown • 2019

The right-wing populism unraveling democracy didn't defeat neoliberalism. It built it.

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🏛️ Political Theory 💰 Neoliberalism Critique 📢 Authoritarian Populism 📖 Critical Theory 📚 Intellectual History

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

The right-wing populism unraveling democracy didn't defeat neoliberalism. It built it.

av Wendy Brown 2019 264 sidor

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🏛️ Political Theory 💰 Neoliberalism Critique 📢 Authoritarian Populism 📖 Critical Theory 📚 Intellectual History

Coercion and Its Fallout

av Murray Sidman • 1989

Why punishment breeds more of the very behavior it tries to stop: behavior analyst explains.

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🧠 Behavior Analysis 👥 Social Control ➕ Positive Reinforcement 🔄 Behavior Modification 🏫 Classroom Management

Coercion and Its Fallout

Why punishment breeds more of the very behavior it tries to stop: behavior analyst explains.

av Murray Sidman 1989 300 sidor

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🧠 Behavior Analysis 👥 Social Control ➕ Positive Reinforcement 🔄 Behavior Modification 🏫 Classroom Management

A Man Called White

av Walter Francis White • 1948

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

A Man Called White

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

av Walter Francis White 1948 392 sidor

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

Cannabis Jobs

av Andrew Ward • 2020

Six-figure jobs hide in cannabis compliance, extraction, and marketing. No plant experience needed.

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🪴 Cannabis Industry 🔄 Career Change 🚪 Career Entry 📜 Regulatory Compliance 💼 Freelance Careers

Cannabis Jobs

Six-figure jobs hide in cannabis compliance, extraction, and marketing. No plant experience needed.

av Andrew Ward 2020 156 sidor

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🪴 Cannabis Industry 🔄 Career Change 🚪 Career Entry 📜 Regulatory Compliance 💼 Freelance Careers

The Divided Welfare State

av Jacob S. Hacker • 2002

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Divided Welfare State

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

av Jacob S. Hacker 2002 447 sidor

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

Illiberal America

av Steven Hahn • 2024

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

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🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Illiberal America

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

av Steven Hahn 2024 464 sidor

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🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Democracy in Chains

av Nancy MacLean • 2017

How a fight against school integration became a stealth campaign to turn democracy into oligarchy.

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🏛️ American Political History 🧮 Public Choice Theory 📉 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Dark Money

Democracy in Chains

How a fight against school integration became a stealth campaign to turn democracy into oligarchy.

av Nancy MacLean 2017 334 sidor

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🏛️ American Political History 🧮 Public Choice Theory 📉 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Dark Money

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

av Lee Drutman • 2020

The two-party system is a democratic death trap. The only way out is to add more parties.

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🦅 American Party Systems 🗳️ Electoral Reform 📊 Proportional Representation 🪓 Political Tribalism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

The two-party system is a democratic death trap. The only way out is to add more parties.

av Lee Drutman 2020 368 sidor

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🦅 American Party Systems 🗳️ Electoral Reform 📊 Proportional Representation 🪓 Political Tribalism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Day Freedom Died

av Charles Lane • 2008

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Day Freedom Died

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

av Charles Lane 2008 352 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Appeal

av John Grisham • 2008

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

The Appeal

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

av John Grisham 2008 358 sidor

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

The Second

av Carol Anderson • 2021

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

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🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

The Second

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

av Carol Anderson 2021 272 sidor

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🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

Where Law Ends

av Andrew Weissmann • 2020

What happens when the president can fire you and pardon the people you are investigating?

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🗳️ Election Interference ⚖️ Obstruction Of Justice 👑 Executive Power 🕵️ Federal Investigations 📜 Rule Of Law

Where Law Ends

What happens when the president can fire you and pardon the people you are investigating?

av Andrew Weissmann 2020 403 sidor

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🗳️ Election Interference ⚖️ Obstruction Of Justice 👑 Executive Power 🕵️ Federal Investigations 📜 Rule Of Law

The Guarded Gate

av Daniel Okrent • 2019

How elite pseudoscience shut America's gates, locked out a generation, and inspired the Nazis.

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🛂 Immigration Policy ⚗️ American Eugenics 📏 Scientific Racism 🔬 Pseudoscience 🐺 Social Darwinism

The Guarded Gate

How elite pseudoscience shut America's gates, locked out a generation, and inspired the Nazis.

av Daniel Okrent 2019 496 sidor

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🛂 Immigration Policy ⚗️ American Eugenics 📏 Scientific Racism 🔬 Pseudoscience 🐺 Social Darwinism

The Division of Labor in Society

av Émile Durkheim • 1893

Villages cohere by likeness, cities by mutual need. That shift rewrites law, work, morality.

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🧱 Social Cohesion 📚 Classical Sociology 🏭 Division Of Labor ⚖️ Law And Social Order 🌱 Social Evolution

The Division of Labor in Society

Villages cohere by likeness, cities by mutual need. That shift rewrites law, work, morality.

av Émile Durkheim 1893 416 sidor

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🧱 Social Cohesion 📚 Classical Sociology 🏭 Division Of Labor ⚖️ Law And Social Order 🌱 Social Evolution

White Lies

av A.J. Baime • 2022

Armed with white skin and a press pass, a Black NAACP leader charmed lynch mobs into confessing.

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🎭 Racial Passing ✊ Anti-Lynching Activism 🏢 Naacp History 🗳️ Voting Rights

White Lies

Armed with white skin and a press pass, a Black NAACP leader charmed lynch mobs into confessing.

av A.J. Baime 2022 384 sidor

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🏛️ Jim Crow Era 🎭 Racial Passing ✊ Anti-Lynching Activism 🏢 Naacp History 🗳️ Voting Rights

San Fransicko

av Michael Shellenberger • 2021

Progressive compassion for the homeless and addicted is making both groups larger and sicker.

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🏙️ Urban Policy 🏚️ Homelessness 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Mental Health Policy ⚖️ Moral Psychology

San Fransicko

Progressive compassion for the homeless and addicted is making both groups larger and sicker.

av Michael Shellenberger 2021 416 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Policy 🏚️ Homelessness 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Mental Health Policy ⚖️ Moral Psychology

Death of a Racehorse

av Katie Bo Lillis • 2025

When 42 horses died at one track in six months, the FBI was already listening.

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🏇 Horse Racing 💉 Doping In Sports 🐴 Animal Welfare 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Regulatory Failure

Death of a Racehorse

When 42 horses died at one track in six months, the FBI was already listening.

av Katie Bo Lillis 2025 384 sidor

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🏇 Horse Racing 💉 Doping In Sports 🐴 Animal Welfare 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Regulatory Failure

The Great Exception

av Jefferson R. Cowie • 2016

The New Deal era was a historical anomaly built on crisis and compromise; it won't return.

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🏭 Labor History 🗽 20th Century America 📜 New Deal Era 🔄 Revisionist History 💔 Class Fragmentation

The Great Exception

The New Deal era was a historical anomaly built on crisis and compromise; it won't return.

av Jefferson R. Cowie 2016 288 sidor

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🏭 Labor History 🗽 20th Century America 📜 New Deal Era 🔄 Revisionist History 💔 Class Fragmentation

On Democracy

av Robert A. Dahl • 1998

Democracy is barely a century old, needs rare conditions, and capitalism is its host and hazard.

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🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics 📜 Constitutional Design ⚖️ Political Equality 🌱 Democratization

On Democracy

Democracy is barely a century old, needs rare conditions, and capitalism is its host and hazard.

av Robert A. Dahl 1998 224 sidor

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🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics 📜 Constitutional Design ⚖️ Political Equality 🌱 Democratization

Politics by Other Means

av Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg • 1990

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

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🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

Politics by Other Means

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

av Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg 1990 268 sidor

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🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

An Inconvenient Minority

av Kenny Xu • 2021

Asian students score highest on every objective measure, so Harvard docks them on personality.

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🎓 College Admissions ⚖️ Affirmative Action 🏆 Meritocracy 📝 Standardized Testing 📚 Critical Race Theory

An Inconvenient Minority

Asian students score highest on every objective measure, so Harvard docks them on personality.

av Kenny Xu 2021 274 sidor

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🎓 College Admissions ⚖️ Affirmative Action 🏆 Meritocracy 📝 Standardized Testing 📚 Critical Race Theory

The Price of Democracy

av Vanessa S. Williamson • 2025

Born demanding taxes, not resisting them. The 250-year cover-up and the racial backlash it fueled.

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🏛️ Political History 💰 Tax Policy ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🗳️ Voter Suppression 📉 Economic Inequality

The Price of Democracy

Born demanding taxes, not resisting them. The 250-year cover-up and the racial backlash it fueled.

av Vanessa S. Williamson 2025 249 sidor

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🏛️ Political History 💰 Tax Policy ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🗳️ Voter Suppression 📉 Economic Inequality

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

av Woody Holton • 2007

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

av Woody Holton 2007 384 sidor

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Dark Wire

av Joseph Cox • 2024

The FBI secretly ran the encrypted phone company that criminals trusted, and read every message.

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🕵️ Organized Crime 🔐 Encryption 🎣 Sting Operations 🔍 Fbi Investigations 💻 Criminal Technology

Dark Wire

The FBI secretly ran the encrypted phone company that criminals trusted, and read every message.

av Joseph Cox 2024

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🕵️ Organized Crime 🔐 Encryption 🎣 Sting Operations 🔍 Fbi Investigations 💻 Criminal Technology

American Reckoning

av Jonathan Alter • 2024

Covering Trump's hush money trial, a journalist confronts his own faith in American democracy.

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🗳️ Political Memoirs ⚖️ Trial Reporting 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🎭 Demagoguery 🦅 Executive Power

American Reckoning

Covering Trump's hush money trial, a journalist confronts his own faith in American democracy.

av Jonathan Alter 2024 256 sidor

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🗳️ Political Memoirs ⚖️ Trial Reporting 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🎭 Demagoguery 🦅 Executive Power

Revolutionary Suicide

av Huey P. Newton • 1973

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

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✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense 🚔 Police Brutality 📚 Self-Education

Revolutionary Suicide

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

av Huey P. Newton 1973 332 sidor

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✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense 🚔 Police Brutality 📚 Self-Education

The Age of Responsibility

av Yascha Mounk • 2017

When responsibility became a weapon, welfare states turned to punishment over protection.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏥 Welfare State 🎲 Agency And Luck ⚖️ Moral Responsibility 🍀 Luck Egalitarianism

The Age of Responsibility

When responsibility became a weapon, welfare states turned to punishment over protection.

av Yascha Mounk 2017 288 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🏥 Welfare State 🎲 Agency And Luck ⚖️ Moral Responsibility 🍀 Luck Egalitarianism

A Necessary Evil

av Garry Wills • 1999

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

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🏛️ Political History 📜 Constitutional History 🏴 Government Distrust 🕵️ Political Myths ⚖️ Federalism

A Necessary Evil

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

av Garry Wills 1999 368 sidor

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🏛️ Political History 📜 Constitutional History 🏴 Government Distrust 🕵️ Political Myths ⚖️ Federalism

Colonialism

av Nigel Biggar • 2023

The British Empire spent a century and 1.8% of its income on abolition. Critics skip that.

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🏛️ British Empire 📜 Imperial History 🔍 Historical Revisionism 🛡️ Empire Apologia ⛓️ Abolitionist History

Colonialism

The British Empire spent a century and 1.8% of its income on abolition. Critics skip that.

av Nigel Biggar 2023 480 sidor

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🏛️ British Empire 📜 Imperial History 🔍 Historical Revisionism 🛡️ Empire Apologia ⛓️ Abolitionist History

The Framers' Coup

av Michael J. Klarman • 2016

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

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📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

The Framers' Coup

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

av Michael J. Klarman 2016 880 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

When Affirmative Action Was White

av Ira Katznelson • 2005

Social Security, the GI Bill, and labor law: they widened the racial wealth gap by design.

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🧾 New Deal History 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏠 Housing Segregation 🔗 Jim Crow Policy ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate

When Affirmative Action Was White

Social Security, the GI Bill, and labor law: they widened the racial wealth gap by design.

av Ira Katznelson 2005 272 sidor

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🧾 New Deal History 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏠 Housing Segregation 🔗 Jim Crow Policy ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate

Whiteness of a Different Color

av Matthew Frye Jacobson • 1998

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

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🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Whiteness of a Different Color

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

av Matthew Frye Jacobson 1998 364 sidor

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🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Civic Ideals

av Rogers M. Smith • 1997

America's citizenship wasn't just about freedom; it was built on racial and gender hierarchy.

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🏛️ Constitutional History ⚖️ Race And The Law 📘 Critical Race Theory 🆔 Citizenship Studies 📖 Nation-Building Myths

Civic Ideals

America's citizenship wasn't just about freedom; it was built on racial and gender hierarchy.

av Rogers M. Smith 1997 736 sidor

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🏛️ Constitutional History ⚖️ Race And The Law 📘 Critical Race Theory 🆔 Citizenship Studies 📖 Nation-Building Myths

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Rogers Brubaker

av Rogers Brubaker • 1992

France grants citizenship by birth; Germany by blood. Two centuries of nationhood, not policy.

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🏳️ National Identity 📜 Citizenship Studies 🏛️ French Republicanism 🩸 Ethnic Nationalism 👶 Birthright Citizenship

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Rogers Brubaker

France grants citizenship by birth; Germany by blood. Two centuries of nationhood, not policy.

av Rogers Brubaker 1992

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🏳️ National Identity 📜 Citizenship Studies 🏛️ French Republicanism 🩸 Ethnic Nationalism 👶 Birthright Citizenship

Citizenship between Empire and Nation

av Frederick Cooper • 2014

France's African empire became sixteen nations. That was nobody's first choice for the region.

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🇫🇷 French Colonialism 🗺️ Decolonization 📜 Imperial Citizenship 🌍 African Statehood 🏛️ Federalism

Citizenship between Empire and Nation

France's African empire became sixteen nations. That was nobody's first choice for the region.

av Frederick Cooper 2014 512 sidor

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🇫🇷 French Colonialism 🗺️ Decolonization 📜 Imperial Citizenship 🌍 African Statehood 🏛️ Federalism

Homegrown

av Jeffrey Toobin • 2023

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

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🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

Homegrown

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

av Jeffrey Toobin 2023 426 sidor

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🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

Correct, Not Politically Correct

av Frank Turek • 2008

Same-sex marriage wasn't about rights. It sought endorsement, and children pay the price.

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 💍 Marriage Policy ⚖️ Sexual Ethics 📜 Natural Law Ethics 🗳️ Culture War Politics

Correct, Not Politically Correct

Same-sex marriage wasn't about rights. It sought endorsement, and children pay the price.

av Frank Turek 2008 229 sidor

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 💍 Marriage Policy ⚖️ Sexual Ethics 📜 Natural Law Ethics 🗳️ Culture War Politics

The Nine

av Jeffrey Toobin • 2007

The Supreme Court's decisions depend less on law than on the ideologies of nine political beings.

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⚖️ Supreme Court 🇺🇸 American Politics 📰 Legal Journalism 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📜 Judicial Activism

The Nine

The Supreme Court's decisions depend less on law than on the ideologies of nine political beings.

av Jeffrey Toobin 2007 384 sidor

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⚖️ Supreme Court 🇺🇸 American Politics 📰 Legal Journalism 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📜 Judicial Activism

How to Kill a Witch

av Zoe Venditozzi • 2025

Witch hunts weren't about magic. They were about controlling women. And they haven't stopped.

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