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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy Author: Geoffrey R. Stone, Lee C. Bollinger Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of 'bad' speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about 'bad' speech—hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence—on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent cast of contributors—including Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mark Warner, Newt Minow, Tim Wu, Cass Sunstein, Jack Balkin, Emily Bazelon, and others—to explore the various dimensions of this problem in the American context. They stress how difficult it is to develop remedies given that some of these forms of 'bad' speech are ordinarily protected by the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone argue that it is important to remember that the last time we encountered major new communications technology—television and radio—we established a federal agency to provide oversight and to issue regulations to protect and promote 'the public interest.' Featuring a variety of perspectives from some of America's leading experts on this hotly contested issue, this volume offers new insights for the future of free speech in the social media era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America Author: David E. Bernstein Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A call for the separation of race and state, backed by a deep dive into the surreal world of racial classification in America. Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, they are ubiquitous in American life. Applying for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizenship, government contracts, and much more involves checking a box stating whether one is Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. While reviewing the surprising history of American racial classifications, Classified raises questions about the classifications’ coherence, logic, and fairness; for example: Should Pakistani, Chinese, and Filipino Americans be in the same category despite their obvious differences in culture, appearance, religion, and more? Why does the government not allow Americans to classify themselves as bi- or multi-racial? How did the government decide that a dark-complexioned, burka-wearing Muslim Yemini should be classified as generically white, but a blond-haired, blue-eyed immigrant from Spain should be classified as Hispanic and treated as a member of a minority group? Why does the government require biomedical researchers to classify study participants by the official racial categories, when the classifications have no scientific basis? In an increasingly diverse society with high rates of intergroup marriage, the American system of racial classification is getting even more arbitrary and absurd. With rising ethno-nationalism threatening democracy around the world, it’s also dangerous. Classified argues that the time has come to consider abolishing official racial classification and replace it with the separation of race and state.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Technologies of Human Rights Representation Author: Alexandra S. Moore Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights—from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry—amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Religion of American Greatness: What's Wrong with Christian Nationalism Author: Paul D. Miller Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, or something more threatening? Paul D. Miller, a Christian scholar, political theorist, veteran, and former White House staffer, provides a detailed portrait of—and case against—Christian nationalism. Building on his practical expertise not only in the archives and classroom but also in public service, Miller unravels this ideology's historical importance, its key tenets, and its political, cultural, and spiritual implications. Miller shows what's at stake if we misunderstand the relationship between Christianity and the American nation. Christian nationalism—the religion of American greatness—is an illiberal political theory, at odds with the genius of the American experiment, and could prove devastating to both church and state. Christians must relearn how to love our country without idolizing it and seek a healthier Christian political witness that respects our constitutional ideals and a biblical vision of justice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Degenerations of Democracy Author: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Craig Calhoun, Charles Taylor Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat but not the root cause. More basic are social and economic transformations eroding the foundations of democracy, ruling elites trying to lock in their own privilege, and cultural perversions like making individualistic freedom the enemy of democracy's other crucial ideals of equality and solidarity. In Degenerations of Democracy three of our most prominent intellectuals investigate democracy gone awry, locate our points of fracture, and suggest paths to democratic renewal. In Charles Taylor's phrase, democracy is a process, not an end state. Taylor documents creeping disempowerment of citizens, failures of inclusion, and widespread efforts to suppress democratic participation, and he calls for renewing community. Craig Calhoun explores the impact of disruption, inequality, and transformation in democracy's social foundations. He reminds us that democracies depend on republican constitutions as well as popular will, and that solidarity and voice must be achieved at large scales as well as locally. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar points out that even well-designed institutions will not integrate everyone, and inequality and precarity make matters worse. He calls for democracies to be prepared for violence and disorder at their margins—and to treat them with justice, not oppression.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence Author: Kristen Ghodsee Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it. Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, then come along for an exploration of how we can change women's lives for the better. 'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood © Kristen Ghodsee 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La sombra azul Author: Mariano Saravia Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La sombra azul es una investigación sobre el llamado D2, el Departamento de Informaciones de la Policía de Córdoba, que durante la última dictadura militar argentina estuviera a cargo de uno de los peores centros clandestinos de detención. Saravia recapitula el accionar de ese grupo de represores a partir de la historia de Luis Urquiza, un joven policía que fue secuestrado y torturado por sus colegas. Luego pudo exiliarse en Dinamarca. Al intentar volver descubre que esos agentes del terrorismo de Estado se habían reciclado en democracia, ocupando altos cargos en la misma policía con el aval de los principales dirigentes políticos de la provincia. Sobre la base de este libro Sergio Schmucler filmó en 2012 una película del mismo nombre. - Mariano Saravia es un periodista, historiador y docente universitario nacido en Córdoba, Argentina. Conduce el programa radial Mirada sur, enfocado en política internacional, y trabaja como columnista en otros envíos. Ha recorrido su provincia y otros puntos de América Latina dictando conferencias sobre diversos temas. Lleva publicados diez libros hasta la fecha, entre los cuales se cuentan La sombra azul (2005), El grito armenio (2007), El golpe paraguayo (2012) y Cuadernos de un viajador 1 y 2 (2016).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China: Fragile Superpower Author: Susan L. Shirk Narrator: Kyle Tait Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think—and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. We discover a fragile communist regime desperate to survive in a society turned upside down by miraculous economic growth and a stunning new openness to the greater world. Theirs is a regime afraid of its own citizens, and this fear motivates many of their decisions when dealing with the US and other foreign nations. In particular, the fervent nationalism of the Chinese people, combined with their passionate resentment of Japan, and attachment to Taiwan, have made relations with these two regions a minefield. It is here, Shirk concludes, in the tangled interactions between Japan, Taiwan, China, and the United States, that the greatest danger lies. Shirk argues that rising powers such as China tend to provoke wars in large part because other countries mishandle them. Unless we understand China's brittle internal politics and the fears that motivate its leaders, we face the very real possibility of avoidable conflict with China.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care Author: Danya Glabau Narrator: Melissa Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food Allergy Advocacy, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States. At the same time, she shows how this activism also reproduces the culturally dominant politics of personhood and responsibility, based on an idealized version of the American family, centered around white, middle-class, and heteronormative motherhood. By holding up the threat of food allergens to the white nuclear family to galvanize political and scientific action, Glabau shows, the movement excludes many, including Black women and disabled adults, whose families and health have too often been marginalized from public health and social safety net programs. Further, its strategies are founded on the assumption that market-based solutions will address issues of social exclusion and equal access to healthcare.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Future War and the Defence of Europe Author: Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French, John R. Allen Narrator: Liam Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.