Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future?from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. After Election Day 2016, both supporters and...
Right and left (Political science)
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Author:Klein, EzraSummary: - Author:Epp-Koop, StefanSummary:
Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for...
- Author:Douville, BruceSummary:
In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on...
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Author:Tough, DavidSummary:What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering different approaches to income...
- Author:Harmes, AdamSummary:
What does federalism have to do with the political struggle between conservatives and progressives over economic policy? How do economic theories of fiscal federalism influence European, North American, and global forms of governance?...
- Author:Saad, GadSummary:
Dr. Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, and and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking.
- Author:Tate, KristinSummary:
Progressive upper-middle-class urbanites are deserting expensive liberal meccas like New York and San Francisco and flocking to traditionally red states like Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Texas. The result is a sudden,...
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Author:Hak, GordonSummary:This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Nineteenth-century coal...
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Author:Aivalis, ChristoSummary:Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with the left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo...
- Author:Shapiro, Ben.Summary:
How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing...
- Author:Mamet, DavidSummary:
David Mamet examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy, the...
- Author:McKay, IanSummary:
Reasoning Otherwise is the first volume of Ian McKay's three-part history of the left in Canada. Using the strategy of "reconnaissance" first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, McKay examines the people and events that...
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Author:Franken, AlSummary:For the first time since his bestselling Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene. Now, the "master of political humor" (Washington post) destroys the myth of...
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
Into the Hurricane invites Canadians to consider how their political opinions and options are manipulated today by considering how they were manipulated yesterday. As Canadians fight for the future of health care, public education, and...
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Despite its claim to be an "inclusive and spacious movement," David Horowitz argues that Black Lives Matter divides Americans by race, class, and party in pursuit of a radical agenda that would impoverish and degrade everyone...
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Author:Thorn, Brian T.Summary:In From Left to Right, Brian Thorn explores what motivated Canadian women to become politically engaged in the 1940s and ’50s. Although women in these decades are often depicted as being trapped in the suburbs, they joined diverse...
- Author:Eisler, DaleSummary:
An in-depth look at the political landscape of Saskatchewan from its leftist roots to its shift in recent years to the right of centre. One of the most underreported stories in Canadian politics has been the political and economic...
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Author:Butler, JudithSummary:"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...
- Author:Klein, NaomiSummary:
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"Over the past decade, a climate of polarization and hyper-partisanship has swept Saskatchewan into a near-perpetual state of anger and social division. Embers of discontent have been fanned into flames by opportunistic politicians and...
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