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The price of democracy

how money shapes politics and what to do about it

Why and how systems of political financing and representation in Europe and North America give outsized influence to the wealthy and undermine democracy, and what we can do about it. One person, one vote. In theory, everyone in a democracy has equal power to decide ...

Napoleon and de Gaulle

Heroes and History

Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing history, we have lost track of the outsized role that individual will and charisma can play ...

Dynamism

the values that drive innovation, job satisfaction, and economic growth

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread presence of certain values, in particular individualism and self-expression. Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps has long argued that the high level of innovation in the lead nations of ...

De Lucy a Medina Azahara

10 grandes descubrimientos arqueológicos

En este libro que contiene y transmite toda la emoción y el encanto de la investigación arqueológica, Andrea Augenti narra diez grandes descubrimientos que trazan un viaje por el tiempo y el espacio que va desde la Prehistoria hasta la Edad Media y que abarca ...

Muhammad and the empires of faith

the making of the prophet of Islam

In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the intellectual ...

El sometimiento de la mujer

Firme alegato contra la sociedad patriarcal tradicional, "El sometimiento de la mujer" es uno de los textos que sentaron las bases de la emancipación de la mujer y su incorporación a la sociedad civil en pie de igualdad con el varón, y que habría de ...

Power after carbon

building a clean, resilient grid

As the damaging and costly impacts of climate change increase, the rapid development of sustainable energy has taken on great urgency. The electricity industry has responded with necessary but wrenching shifts toward renewables, even as it faces unprecedented challenges and disruption brought on by new ...

Ancient Philosophy

The Fundamentals

Part of the popular Fundamentals of Philosophy series, Ancient Philosophy is an ideal resource for beginning students as well as for advanced students wishing to hone their understanding of the philosophies of the ancient world. Clear and engaging, this book covers a representative selection of ...

The living presidency

an originalist argument against Its ever-expanding powers

A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidency’s ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal embrace of a living Constitution. Liberal scholars and politicians routinely denounce the imperial presidency—a self-aggrandizing executive that has progressively sidelined Congress. Yet the same people invariably ...

Yo, Moctezuma

emperador de los aztecas

El último emperador azteca, Moctezuma II, dicta sus recuerdos a Orteguilla, el paje de Hernán Cortés –que más tarde morirá en la retirada conocida por el nombre de «Noche triste»–, evocando su vida antes de la llegada de los españoles y describiendo los hechos que ...

The new despotism

One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes ...

The club

Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among ...

Foretelling the end of capitalism

intellectual misadventures since Karl Marx

Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two centuries of failed forecasts of doom reveals the key to capitalism’s durability. Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism ...

El Imperio español

de Colón a Magallanes

El imperio español fue una de las más grandes creaciones políticas europeas. Concebido a principios del siglo xvi, perduró trescientos años en la América continental y casi otros setenta en el Caribe y Filipinas. Hugh Thomas, con el estilo que le ha granjeado tantos lectores ...

A climate policy revolution

what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet

The sheer complexity of climate change stops most solutions in their tracks. How do we give up fossil fuels when energy is connected to everything, from great-power contests to the value of your pension? Global economic growth depends on consumption, but that also produces the ...

Ending book hunger

access to print across barriers of class and culture

One billion kids lack access to books in their native languages. Forty percent of America’s children cannot afford to buy books. This is a crisis for education, because the best predictor of a child’s success in school is the number of books at ...

Cuando la historia te quema las manos

Auden y Orwell entre dos guerras

Lejos de Inglaterra, uno en Nueva York, el otro en Marrakech, W.H. Auden y George Orwell viven el año 1939 entre la asimilación de las trágicas lecciones de la Guerra Civil española y las angustias por el inminente estallido de una nueva guerra europea ...

Responsible parties

saving democracy from itself

Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific ...

The challenges of multilateralism

Multilateralism has long been a study of contrasts. Nationalist impulses, diverging and shifting goals, and a lack of enforcement methods have plagued the international organizations that facilitate multilateralism. Yet the desire to seek peace, reduce poverty, and promote the global health of people and the ...

Bread winner

an intimate history of the Victorian economy

Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation’s wealth. Unable to earn a sufficient income themselves, working-class women were reliant on the ‘breadwinner wage’ of their husbands. When income failed, or was ...