The Democratic Imagination in America: Conversations with Our Past

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Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony

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The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany

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Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity

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Gibeon, Where the Sun Stood Still: The Discovery of the Biblical City

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Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement

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Before the Shooting Begins

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America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism

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The Idea of a Liberal Theory: A Critique and Reconstruction

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Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

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The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought

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The Pragmatic Ideal: Mary Field Parton and the Pursuit of a Progressive Society

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Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation

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Democracy Ancient and Modern

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The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

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The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy

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Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen

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Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

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Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement

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Keep Out: The Struggle for Land Use Control

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Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America

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Learning One’s Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America

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The Historiography of Communism

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Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic

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Democracy and the Political Unconscious

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Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing

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Founding Fictions

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To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism

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Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic

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Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory

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The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy

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Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood

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Rival Visions: How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic

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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

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In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy

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The Allegory of the Cave

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Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought

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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

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A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers

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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life

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THE EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH THE ATLANTEAN

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The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

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Be Here Now

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Bhagavad Gita (in English): The Authentic English Translation for Accurate and Unbiased Understanding

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Inward

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Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God

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The Buddha's Guide to Gratitude: The Life-changing Power of Everyday Mindfulness

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The Bhagavad Gita

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The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

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The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

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Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition

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The Lessons of History

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Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

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Lying

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The Four Loves

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Brain Training with the Buddha: A Modern Path to Insight Based on the Ancient Foundations of Mindfulness

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Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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Meditations: Complete and Unabridged

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani

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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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The Art of War

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The Art of Loving

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Donald Trump Didn’t Hijack the G.O.P. He Understood It.: Right now, Republicans of all stripes — Ron DeSantis, J.D. Vance, Mike Pence, Glenn Youngkin — are trying to figure out how to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political message. The struggle to achieve such a synthesis is the defining project on the American right today. Its outcome will determine the future of the Republican Party — and American politics. To understand what the post-Trump future of the G.O.P. will look like, it helps to have a clearer understanding of the party’s past — particularly the chapters that many conservatives prefer to forget. Traditional histories of American conservatism view Donald Trump’s election as an aberration in the lineage of the American right — an unprecedented populist rejection of the conservatism of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. But Matthew Continetti’s new book “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” flips that conventional h

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John McWhorter On Woke Racism

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What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want?: “It begun to dawn on many conservatives that in spite of apparent electoral victories that have occurred regularly since the Reagan years, they have consistently lost, and lost overwhelmingly to progressive forces,” Patrick Deneen writes in a recent essay titled “Abandoning Defensive Crouch Conservatism.” He goes on to argue that conservatives need to reject liberal values like free speech, religious liberty and pluralism, abandon their defensive posturing and use the power of the state to actively fight back against what he calls “liberal totalitarianism.” To progressive ears, these kinds of statements can be baffling; after all, Republicans currently control a majority of state legislatures, governorships and the Supreme Court, and they are poised to make gains in the midterm elections this fall. But even so, there’s a pervasive feeling among conservatives that progressives are using their unprecedented institutional power — in univ

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Kmele Foster On Individualism, Equity, Neoracism

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Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy: As we’ve previously discussed, there are a lot of books about democracy filling book store and library shelves right now. Norman Eisen could have written a book in the vein of Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky’s How Democracies Die or David Frum’s Trumpocracy, but chose to go in a different direction. In The Last Palace, he tells the … Continue reading Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy →

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An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the G.O.P.: "I don’t think conservatism can do its job in a free society in opposition to the institutions of that society,” Yuval Levin told me. “I think it can only function in defense of them.” Levin is the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, as well as the author of a number of great books, most recently, “A Time to Build.” I wanted to talk to him about a very specific question, though: What will the Republican Party become? Levin is one of its most thoughtful and sober analysts — a temperament that may, I realize, make him unsuited to interpreting its current incarnation, in which a majority of House Republicans voted to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election and one of them is, well, Marjorie Taylor Greene. But Levin’s diagnosis is interesting. Histories of the modern Republican Party often place Ronald Reagan at their center. That is, in Levin’s view, a mistak

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All by Ernest Owens

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A HEATED Encounter with Chris Rufo: Critical Race Theory, The Left, and American History

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein): Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss the "state of the field" of historical studies of American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should it orient itself to 2024?

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Peace Revolution episode 021: The Occult History of World War / A Veil Lifted: Click the invitation link in the notes @ peace revolution dot org

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It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?: “Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really about — these are two parts of the same project” for the Republican Party, Jay Rosen writes. “The conflict with honest journalism is structural. To be its dwindling self, the G.O.P. has to also be at war with the press, unless of course the press folds under pressure.” Rosen is a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., author of the blog “PressThink,” and one of America’s sharpest contemporary media critics. And his argument is a simple one: The media’s implicit model of American politics — of two coequal parties with competing governing philosophies — is fundamentally broken. Today, the most important axis of political conflict is not between left and right, but between pro- and anti-democracy forces. The way Rosen sees it, the American mainstream press must make a choice: Will it double down on its commitment to detached, nonpartisan neutrality? Or wi

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John Mearsheimer On Handling Russia And China

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Jonathan Haidt On Social Media’s Havoc

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Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History

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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump

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Donald F. Kettl on Federalism

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Montesquieu and the Constitution: Discussing Montesquieu’s influence on the Constitution

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What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans | Thomas E. Ricks: In Episode 166 of , Demetri Kofinas speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas Ricks about his book “First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans.” The two discuss the influence of Greco-Roman thought and...

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What is democracy? A conversation with Astra Taylor: We begin our third season with a fundamental question: What is democracy? Astra Taylor grapples with this question in a documentary of the same name and a forthcoming book. We talk with her this week about what she learned from traveling the world and talking with people from all walks of life. As you’ll hear, … Continue reading What is democracy? A conversation with Astra Taylor →

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What's Useful and Correct About Critical Race Theory? (w/ Randall Kennedy)

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Kermit Roosevelt III: The Nation That Never Was: Join us as Roosevelt rethinks how American history is viewed, and how the ideas underpinning the country have shifted in the past two centuries—and along with it, what it means to be American itself.

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Marxist Women’s Day | Dr. Paul Kengor on The Dr J Show ep. 229: The same people who are telling us to celebrate Women’s history during March are the same ones who are telling us that not only are people like Bruce Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney women, but that there isn’t really a definition of what a woman is in...

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How will Donald Trump’s victory impact China and U.S.-China relations?

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Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022): An interview with Ryan M. Brooks

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Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today: The Harvard political theorist on democracy, prison abolition, and the American founding

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Timothy Shenk, "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy" (FSG, 2022): An interview with Timothy Shenk

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Local news is civic infrastructure. And it’s crumbling. Can we save it?: Harvard Kennedy School professors Nancy Gibbs and Tom Patterson say local news is civic infrastructure. And it's crumbling. Like bridges, local news organizations use facts to help people connect with each other over the chasm of partisan political divides. People need reliable information to make important decisions about their lives—Where should I send my child to school? Who should I vote for? Should I buy a bigger house or a new car?—just as much as they need breathable air, clean water, and safe roads. Unfortunately, internet-driven market forces have cut traditional sources of revenue by as much as 80 percent, and vulture capitalists have bought up local newspapers, sold off their physical assets and gutted newsroom staffs. Across America, more than 2,000 local news organizations have shut their doors in just the past two decades. Meanwhile, studies show that when local news declines, voting and other key fo

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David Goodhart On Overvaluing Smarts

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Christopher Caldwell On Unintended Consequences Of The Civil Rights Act

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The connective tissue of democracy: The Women’s March 2020 was held in cities across the country on January 18. What began as a conversation on social media has evolved into a network of groups and organizations that are united in opposition to the Trump administration. From 2017-2019, Dana Fisher and her research team interviewed participants at Washington, D.C. protests, including […]