Motgift Arsbok 2014
by Jonas De Geer, Magnus Soederman, and Dan Eriksson
What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on the war in Biafra, the Six-Day War, and the Vietnam War; on the Nixon impeachment inquiry and C...
Not since the Second World War has there been such a gulf in wealth, income and power between the rich and the rest of the population of Canada. The fight against the deficit has been largely won and economic growth has resumed, but a deeply divided society is emerging. On the one side are the winners-the small minority who have struck it rich from corporate profits and stock markets. On the other side is the majority-facing meagre gains or even losses in income. Conflict between the classes has...
From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe. Eugene Linden wrote his first story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988; it was just the beginning of his investi...
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
by William Godwin
Author Chris Salamone offers inspiring action steps that every American can implement tomorrow and feel that they're making a difference. Exemplary citizenship requires learning the roots of our country's once-great promise and embodying the values of personal responsibility, gratitude, and sacrifice. Salamone presents revolutionary ideas for: revamping entitlement programs or eliminating them entirely; implementing a two-year mandatory national service, and investing in early childhood educatio...
Why do conservatives always seem to lose, even when Republicans win? With considerable firsthand experience in politics and an engaging analytical perspective, Steve Deace provides the answer. Why does the Republican Party always seem to betray conservatives in the end? How come Leftists never worry some "squishy" moderate will win Democrat primaries, even though conservatives in the GOP are constantly fighting that battle? Why do GOP leaders typically fight the conservative base harder than th...
'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular news programme, John Humphrys was famed for his tough interviewing. He has been at the heart of journalism for decades. Now, he offers his life story from the poverty of his post-war childhood in Cardiff, leaving school at fifteen, to the summits of bro...
Poetry by Kay Gabriel Photography by Luc Delahaye Art by Bahar Behbahani Fiction by Katie Kane and David Naimon Richard Seymour: 'Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style' Politics and the English language - among others - redux. Bromides, ornamentaphobia and the elitism of 'clarity'. Robert Knox: 'Against Law-sterity' Beyond economics and ideology to a jurisprudential horizon. The law of austerity and the austere grounds of law. Esther Leslie: 'Men of Doubt: Fortini, Benjamin, Brecht' Fr...
'Nothing to touch the glory of the great cartoonists!...they teach the historians their trade' said the former Labour Party leader Michael Foot, a view also held by Winston Churchill. However, though many of the cartoons of international conflicts from the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the Second World War have become iconic, very little is known about their creators. This book puts the record straight by assembling, for the first time in a single volume, brief biographies of...
From Sam Jordison, author of the bestselling Crap Towns series, comes I-SPY for Grown-ups. The I-SPY concept is very simple: it's like the 'I spy with my little eye' game, only instead of all the tedious stuff about 'something beginning with', there are pictures and descriptions and genuine opportunities to use your sleuthing skills to discover interesting things. This can be alarming - but when turned into a sport, it's also fun. The United Kingdom of Wales, England, Scotlan...
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readj...