"Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.S.-Latin American cooperation. In 'Hemispheric Alliances', Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the strengths and weaknesses of new m…
"Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.S.-Latin American cooperation. In 'Hemispheric Alliances', Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the strengths and weaknesses of new m…
"Offers the most complete history of the neoliberal order yet published, reconstructing both its rise and fallRestores the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War to their pivotal place in American historyShows that neoliberalism originated as much on the Left (the New Lef…
Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend to promote their policy p…
"Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend to promote their policy …
Education seems to be in one of its perennial crises, and all shades of political opinion quarrel over the reasons and the cure. Alan Ryan asks what these culture wars are really about, and why the battle is so ferocious. His answer is that for two hundred years education has be…
Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious -- part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don't f…
Moral politics: how liberals and conservatives think
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to …
