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"The Middle Ages are all around us, not just in history class, but in the world's most popular video games, in reenactments, at renaissance faires, and on HBO's Game of Thrones. But not all uses of the past are for innocent entertainment: Ku Klux Klan members still call themselv…
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Saul Alinsky explains his current views on political activism in a new introduction to his classic study of radical thought and methodology.
Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love, Just as that book included impr…
Radical left parties in Europe
by March, Luke
fromRoutledge studies in extremism and democracy