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2018.
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"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face, writes political analyst Ezra...
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English
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The New York Times bestselling author says America is being ripped apart by bitterness and contempt, fomented by public bullies and self-interested leaders-but following the plan in this book, we can fight back to reunite the nation around principles of respect, kindness, and dignity. Battered by partisan rancor and caustic public discourse, America is tearing at the seams. Across the political spectrum, we are told by divisive leaders that our ideological...
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English
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An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present....
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The former speaker of the House reveals how Big Government socialism is crippling America--and offers strategies and insights for everyday citizens to overcome its influence.
Socialists have taken over the modern Democratic Party, big business, news media, entertainment, and academia. This Big Government Socialism is crippling America, and we have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Gingrich describes the polling that shows...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate"--
"Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key...
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