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Ce chapitre s’intéresse à un épisode particulier et peu connu, celui du rôle joué par les intellectuels néolibéraux pour faire échouer l’Organisation internationale du commerce, l’institution qui devait compléter le système de Bretton Woods, ainsi que dans la rédaction des premiers projets, après la guerre, d’une loi internationale sur les investis
... See moreQuinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
The Assembly was led by the thirty-seven-year-old Alfred E. Smith, a seven-term veteran from the Lower East Side, son of an Irish mother and an Italian-German father, a vital cog in the Tammany organization who despite an eighth-grade education had demonstrated a political savvy that catapulted him ahead of a legion of better-educated, more seasone
... See moreJean Edward Smith • FDR
the Old Guard’s Warren G. Harding was elevated directly from his Senate desk to the White House, in his ears his colleagues’ admonition to “sign whatever bills the Senate sent him and not send bills for the Senate to pass.” Under Harding and Coolidge and Hoover, this “normalcy” was to last for almost a decade—a decade during which, slowly but stead
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Any election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Overall, America’s blue zone is wealthier, healthier, more educated, more professional, more mobile, more economically unequal, and more ethnically diverse. America’s red zone is more churchgoing, more neighborly, more charitable, more family oriented, more rooted, more violent, less bureaucratic, and less taxed. Surveys indicate that Americans reg
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
While in Denmark, Horton had been inspired by the model of the folk school, a place where rural workers learned skills but also developed social and political perspectives out of their collective experiences. Highlander was built on that example, an educational site for ordinary people.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Content That’s as Good as Contact? Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Promise of Depolarization at Scale
The document evaluates a 50-minute documentary showing cross-partisan dialogue as a cost-effective, scalable way to reduce affective polarization among Americans, increasing optimism and interest but not investment in depolarization activities.
bridgeentertainmentlabs.orgWhereas Buchanan’s views were informed by a sense of earnestness, humility, and respect, Rothbard’s every breath was laden with irreverence for authority. Buchanan was an Irish Catholic who regarded 1959’s liberalizing Vatican II Council as a surrender of the forces of good (meaning orthodoxy) to those of decadent modernism. Rothbard, on the other
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