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Ted Gioia • What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt
discomfiture.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
merit of traditional religious world-views
Benedict Anderson • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
This paternalist treatment of the Arabs, denying them agency and responsibility as adults, disgusted me. So, too, did the tendency to single out Israel. Any liberal, democratic state could be criticized, of course, but never more so than its monarchical and tyrannical neighbors.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive “othering”
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
what the New York Times recently referred to in a book review as the “traditional Jeffersonian role of the media as a counter-weight to government”—in other words, a cantankerous, obstinate, ubiquitous press, which must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the right of the people to know, and to help the population assert meaningf
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities,