Crowdocracy
In the 1970s, I remember seeing an amusing film called The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer - long before the days of the Internet…… Read More »
Category: Politics & Society
Re-Imagining America
Subtitled 'finding hope in difficult times', this penetrating book is both a radical diagnosis of US social ecology and a prescription for a New World.…… Read More »
Aldous Huxley - the political thought of a man of letters
I have been reading Huxley for many years, and readers may recall that I reviewed his last book of lectures, The Human Situation in the…… Read More »
Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously
This highly informative volume fully justifies its title. The origin of the notion of conspiracy theory goes back to reactions to the official report on…… Read More »
Manufacturing Terrorism
I reviewed the author's books on Britain's secret wars and President Trump in these pages last year. This book is equally penetrating and disturbing in…… Read More »
The Arrogance of Power
Senator William Fulbright (1905 – 1995) served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974, a record term. This is the…… Read More »
Secularism
This is an excellent and sympathetic introduction to secularism as an approach to the 'ordering of communities, nations, and states', in other words its political…… Read More »
The Paradox of our National Security Complex
This is a chilling and well-informed book, written by an attorney, about how secrecy and security diminish liberty in the US and threaten their democratic…… Read More »
#republic
Harvard law professor and bestselling author of Nudge has produced another game changing book about divided democracy in the age of social media. Although his…… Read More »
COMMUNICATION POWER
Building on his previous work on the network society, Manuel Castells distils the implications of new communications platforms in relation to the exercise of power…… Read More »