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In his stunning new book, Marriage and Civilization, author William Tucker looks at the evidence from biology, evolution, anthropology, history, and culture to come to a remarkable conclusion: it was the monogamous pairing of male and female - unusual among mammals - that led to human evolution. Moreover, it is monogamous marriage that has shaped Western Civilization, giving us our sense of justice, undergirded Western democracy, and is the greatest...
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An inside view of a rural Iowa town torn apart by greed, failed immigration policy and misguided view of diversity. Postville (population 2400) is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, in the middle of endless cornfields, unparalleled diversity drew the curiosity of international media and outside observers. In 2008, however, people who hoped Postville would succeed declared the town's experiment...
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In October 2022, the economist Emily Oster wrote a plea for a "pandemic amnesty." After detailing various ill-conceived public health policies throughout the pandemic, Oster concluded that "The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well." She reasoned that many admittedly poor, public health decisions were made in an information vacuum...
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The most transgressive cure for what ails society.
Nicole Daedone’s Erotic Justice, is a revolutionary work that challenges the traditional paradigms of American society, leading to a higher purpose: personal and societal transformation. At the core of Erotic Justice is the thing that can right all wrongs: Love.
Erotic Justice offers Love as the answer.
Erotic Justice offers solutions, not complaints.
Erotic Justice fuels needed change.
Erotic Justice...
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This book is a somewhat unusual depiction of a difficult policy issue. It transcends almost all boundaries because of its constant change and its movement across many different participants.
It was found attached to a range of policy topics, methodologies and approaches. Some of these were familiar while others seemed new. Interest in this topic was exhibited across the globe and did not appear to be delivered along with a narrow political agenda.
While...
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Americans are troubled by the growing incivility they see in public life and in their interpersonal relationships. The lack of civility is an increasing issue on college campuses, reflecting deep societal problems. "In Search of Civility: Confronting Incivility on the College Campus", explores the timely issue by weaving stories of four college freshmen at a large university with current research on civility issues. The four students encounter civility...
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A ningún equipo de futbol le gusta jugar en una cancha que le dé ventajas a unos jugadores y afecte a otros. Ni que en cada partido cambien las reglas o que el árbitro las aplique para beneficiar al rival. Un requisito para que el marcador final sea justo es que el esfuerzo de cada futbolista no se vea obstaculizado por nada ni nadie y que el azar ejerza su imperio por igual entre todos los que salten al césped. En suma, hace falta una cancha...
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Dans ce livre surprenant, Christophe De Beukelaer, jeune député belge et véritable entrepreneur en politique, propose un regard neuf sur la société. « Je n'ai pas la prétention de vous présenter la vérité dans ce livre, mais bien ma vérité. Je vous présente ma vision du monde, de ses enjeux et des solutions à apporter. » annonce-t-il d'emblée.
Au fil des chapitres, il nous fait voyager dans l'Histoire, dans son expérience...
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In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women's healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion-"the front line and the bottom line of women's freedom and liberty."
Merle Hoffman has been on the front lines of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped...
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"Safe space" stickers on office doors at the Naval Academy. Officers apologizing for "microaggressions" against Air Force cadets. An Army "gender integration study" urging an end to "hyper-masculinity" in combat-arms units. Power Point presentations teaching commanders about "male pregnancy." A cover-up, as senior officials placed their thumbs on the scales to ensure the success of the first female candidates at the Army's legendary Ranger School....
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A black professor of classics takes on the cult of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this compelling appeal to true justice, he demolishes the identity politics that makes a travesty of Martin Luther King's dream.
Martin Luther King's dream of a colorblind society is dead. Powerful political, educational, and corporate forces are making race the defining feature of American life, and nobody dares to stop them.
Naively confident in the "marketplace...
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The aging of the boomer generation has unleashed a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the catastrophic predictions with a far more optimistic scenario.
Drawing on evidence that most baby boomers plan on working long past age sixty-five, Goldsmith argues that they will have a constructive impact on society. By assuming...
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A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city's priorities toward liberal reform. La Guardia's approach to low-level policing anticipated later trends in law...
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La solution d'un libre penseur de campagne ? présente des clés qui permettent d'aborder pacifiquement notre pratique mensongère et destructrice de la démocratie. L'auteur dresse un constat alarmant : la régression de l'humanisme et propose des résolutions sociopolitiques simples pour remédier à cette situation.
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Robert Gagne a écrit ce livre en communion avec son épouse disparue. Pour lui, l'écriture revêt une...
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"It's an inspiring book that will-hopefully-push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which 'atheism' isn't seen as a dirty word."-The Humanist
America doesn't need more God. It needs more atheists. Here's an impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief-and help change the American cultural conversation.
Even though a growing number of Americans don't believe in god, many...
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A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington
They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America's war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation's capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined...
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From the founders' fears that crowded cities would produce corruption, luxury, and vice to the zero population growth movement of the late 1960s to today's widespread fears of an aging crisis as the Baby Boomers retire, the American population debate has always concerned much more than racial composition or resource exhaustion, the aspects of the debate usually emphasized by historians. In The State and the Stork, Derek Hoff draws on his extraordinary...
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