Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nic…
Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nic…
The perfect storm of the European crisis
The most significant phenomenon occurring around us today is the European crisis. As well as being a "total social phenomenon" as classical French sociologist ́Emile Durkheim would have said, it also affects all the levels of our lives-be they political, economic, cultural or soc…
Feffer speaks to the world's leading activists to show how international leftist campaigns must come together if they are to combat the rising tide of the Right. A global Green New Deal, progressive trans-European movements, grassroots campaigning on international issues with ne…
"In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world's population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today's autocrats are, at first glance, a diverse band of brothers. But religious, eco…
"A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligatio…
A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligation…
"A leading social thinker examines the key structural features of our disillusioned age"
"A leading social thinker examines the key structural features of our disillusioned age"--
"A leading social thinker examines the key structural features of our disillusioned age"--.
"A leading social thinker examines the key structural features of our disillusioned age"--
"A leading social thinker examines the key structural features of our disillusioned age"--
"In What Happened to the Vital Center?, Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney Milkis tackle a foundational question within American political history: Is current partisan polarization, aggravated by populist disdain for constitutional principles and institutions, a novel development in Ame…
"In What Happened to the Vital Center?, Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney Milkis tackle a foundational question within American political history: Is current partisan polarization, aggravated by populist disdain for constitutional principles and institutions, a novel development in Ame…
"Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that fractures the …