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Confronting Tyranny Today
Unaccountable and irresponsible power over other human beings proved not only grasping and cruel but also impermanent. No human being lives forever, and the tyrannos (tyrant), or perhaps his son, …
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Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption in China
A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in China and whose wife was disappeared, Red Roulette reveals the truth of what is happening insi…
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Yemaya: Mother of All Life
Yembo is traditionally seen as the first incarnation of Yemaya, the intriguing oceanic Mother of All life. Few spirits are more beloved, adopted, co-opted, and assimilated than this one. Excerpts …
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The Woke-Industrial Complex
Wokeness has remade American capitalism in its own image. Talk of being “woke” has morphed into a kind of catchall term for progressive identity politics today. Following excerpts adapted from The …
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Great Betrayal of British Raj India
Following excerpts adapted from the author's book , Peace, Poverty and Betrayal : A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews Why is there a large, modern political unit called ‘India’? A…
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The Nile: The Beginning of the Journey
The mosaic outside Rome I am like one of those old books that ends up moldering for lack of having been read. There’s nothing to do but spin out the thread of memory and, from time to time, wipe awa…
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Home In the World: Amartya Sen's Memoir
Nearly all my earliest memories came from Burma, where we stayed for a little over three years. Some of what I remember was clearly real, such as the beautiful palace in Mandalay, with a charming moa…
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Limit of Democracy
Direct violence is as a rule not revolutionary but conservative, a reaction to the threat of a more basic change—when a system is in a crisis, it begins to break its own rules. Following excerpts fr…
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