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Title: The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

Series: Part of Studies in Postwar American Political

Author: Hyrum Lewis, Verlan Lewis

Narrator: Hyrum Lewis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first-century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called 'left' and 'right,' people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis provide the surprising answer: nothing. As the authors argue, there is no enduring philosophy, disposition, or essence uniting the various positions associated with the liberal and conservative ideologies of today. Far from being an eternal dividing line of American politics, the political spectrum came to the United States in the 1920s and, since then, left and right have evolved in so many unpredictable and even contradictory ways that there is currently nothing other than tribal loyalty holding together the many disparate positions that fly under the banners of 'liberal' and 'conservative.' Cutting against the grain of most scholarship on polarization in America, this book shows why the idea that the political spectrum measures deeply held worldviews is the central political myth of our time and a major cause of the confusion and vitriol that characterize public discourse.

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Title: The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State

Author: Thomas W. Merrill

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. Power has inevitably shifted to the executive branch agencies that interpret laws already on the books and to the courts that review the agencies' interpretations. Since the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, this judicial review has been highly deferential: courts must uphold agency interpretations of unclear laws as long as these interpretations are 'reasonable.' But the Chevron doctrine faces backlash from constitutional scholars and, now, from Supreme Court justices who insist that courts, not administrative agencies, have the authority to say what the law is. Recognizing that Congress cannot help relying on agencies to carry out laws, Merrill rejects the notion of discarding the administrative state. Instead, he focuses on what should be the proper relationship between agencies and courts in interpreting laws, given the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions. Courts are better at enforcing the rule of law and constitutional values; agencies have more policy expertise and receive more public input. The best solution, Merrill suggests, is not of the either-or variety. Neither executive agencies nor courts alone should pick up the slack of our increasingly ineffectual legislature.

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Title: Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

Author: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Narrator: Rebecca Lam

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. But what does it look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sustaining justice work can be particularly challenging for the sensitive, and it requires a deep level of self-awareness. In Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul, writer Dorcas Cheng-Tozun offers six possible pathways for sensitive types: Connectors: relational activists whose interactions and conversations build the social capital necessary for change; Creatives: artists and creators whose work inspires, sheds light, makes connections, and brings issues into the public consciousness; Record Keepers: archivists who preserve essential information and hold our collective memory and history; Builders: inventors, programmers, and engineers who center empathy as they develop society-changing products and technologies; Equippers: educators, mentors, and elders who build skills and knowledge within movements and shepherd the next generation of changemakers; and Researchers: data-driven individuals who utilize information as a persuasive tool to effect change and propose options for improvement. Cheng-Tozun expands the possibilities of how to have a positive social impact, affirming the particular gifts and talents that sensitive souls offer to a hurting world.

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Title: Espionage: A Concise History

Series: Part of MIT Press Essential Knowledge

Author: Kristie Macrakis

Narrator: Holly Adams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today's high-tech world. Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one of the most intriguing. This book pulls the veil back on the real world of espionage, revealing how spying actually works. In a refreshingly clear, concise manner, Kristie Macrakis guides listeners through the shadowy world of espionage, from the language and practice of spycraft to its role in international politics, its bureaucratic underpinnings, and its transformation in light of modern technology. Espionage is a mirror of society and human foibles with the added cloak of secrecy and deception. Accordingly, Espionage traces spying all the way back to antiquity, while also moving beyond traditional accounts of military and diplomatic intelligence to shine a light on industrial espionage and the new techno-spy. As thorough—and thoroughly enjoyable—as it is compact, the book is an ideal introduction to the history and anatomy of espionage.

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Title: We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms

Author: Micah Fields

Narrator: Micah Fields

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, Fields set off from his home in Iowa back to the battered city of his childhood to rescue his mother. Fields tracks the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, one storm in a long lineage that threatens the fourth largest city in America. Fields depicts the history of Houston with reverence and lyrical certainty, investigating the conflicting facets of Texan identity that are steeped in racial subjugation, environmental collapse, and capitalist greed. He writes of the development of the modern city in the wake of the destruction of Galveston in 1900; of the oil booms and busts that shaped the city; of the unchecked lust for growth that makes Houston so expressive of the American dream. We Hold Our Breath is a portrait of a city that exists despite it all, a city whose story has always been one of war waged relentlessly against water.

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Title: Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

Author: Michael Brooks

Narrator: Sam Seder

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Brooks takes on the new 'Intellectual Dark Web.' As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the 'conservative rebels' who had taken YouTube by storm in 2018. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent 'renegades,' including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein while also examining the social, political, and media environment that such rebels thrive in.

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Title: Something for Nothing: The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare

Author: Brian Tracy

Narrator: Brian Tracy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society, people are increasingly vying for political advantage to live at the expense of others. Something for Nothing reveals the social and personal threats inherent in this emerging 'grabbing match' culture, juxtaposing free-market virtues against government vices, explaining how the something-for-nothing mentality corrupts the political system, undermines corporate success, and stifles the individual's ability to prosper and contribute long-term to society. More than exposing the dangers, however, Tracy helps readers set a personal and culture-wide agenda for change.

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Title: Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously

Author: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing 'morality' or 'authenticity;' it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfemi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonization' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: 'decolorizers' themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

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Title: [German] - Andrew Carnegie: Die Hörbuch Box über den reichsten Mann der Welt: Das Evangelium des Reichtums, Der Weg zum geschäftlichen Erfolg u.v.m.

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter, Andrew Carnegie

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Release date: June 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Der Mann, der in Reichtum stirbt, stirbt in Schande!' In der Tat, das sagte Stahlbaron Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919). Gemessen an der Kaufkraft von 2014, besaß er ein Vermögen von über 300 Milliarden Dollar – und gab doch das meiste davon für wohltätige Zwecke wieder her. Dennoch – als einer der sogenannten 'Robber Barons', der Industriemagnate, die mit harten Bandagen unter Ausbeutung ihrer Arbeiter unfassbar reich wurden, ist das Urteil der Geschichte über ihn mehr als zwiespältig. In dieser autobiografischen Hörbuch Box dabei: Das Evangelium des Reichtums, Das gemeinschaftliche Interesse von Arbeit und Kapital, Das ABC des Geldes, Über das Sparen, Reichtum und sein Gebrauch, Geschäft - sowie eine kurze Biografie von Carl Adolf Bratter.

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Title: The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea (2nd Edition)

Author: Christopher J. Lebron

Narrator: Diontae Black

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that 'Black Lives Matter' comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity—and not just equal rights—of black people. In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of Davis, Baraka, and other revolutionary black public intellectuals, Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that 'Black Lives Matter' when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement.