Demarais, A. (2024). Backfire: How sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests. Columbia University Press. Backfire in context Economic sanctions have become Washington’s [...] Read more

In The Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010), Pulitzer‑prize‑winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the slow unraveling of the American liberal tradition—the coalition [...] Read more

Martha C. Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions advances a radical claim: emotions are not irrational eruptions that cloud judgment but cognitively rich appraisals [...] Read more

Edward Bernays’ Propaganda (1928) reads today like the blueprint for a media age he could scarcely imagine. In brisk, confident prose, Bernays argues that modern democracies cannot function without [...] Read more

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell is a political allegory and satire that critiques totalitarianism, primarily focused on the events leading up to and following the Russian Revolution. Set on a farm, [...] Read more

Schmelzer, M., Vetter, A., & Vansintjan, A. (2022). The future is degrowth: A guide to a world beyond capitalism. London: Verso Books. A Summary of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World [...] Read more

Pope, A. (1733–34). An Essay on Man. Overview An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope offers us a lyrical manual for answering some of life's most important questions: Who are we? What is causing the [...] Read more

Ewen, S. (1996). PR: A social history of spin. New York: Basic Books. Stuart Ewen’s PR: A Social History of Spin (1996) is a critical and illuminating exploration of the history and cultural [...] Read more

Title: Confronting Tyranny: George Orwell’s Defense of Democracy in "Fascism and Democracy" Introduction George Orwell’s 1941 essay Fascism and Democracy, written in the midst of World War II, [...] Read more

Extended Summary: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, first published in 1973, presents a compelling critique of conventional [...] Read more