Half-earth socialism

a plan to save the future from extinction, climate change, and pandemics

Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed ...

Climate change as class war

building socialism on a warming planet

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class ...

Cheap speech

how disinformation poisons our politics - and how to cure it

What can be done consistent with the First Amendment to ensure that American voters can make informed election decisions and hold free elections amid a flood of virally spread disinformation and the collapse of local news reporting? How should American society counter the actions of ...

Parlamento in chiaro scuro

Sunnis and Shi'a

a political history of discord

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired ...

Conservatism

the fight for a tradition

A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard Right For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long ...

The man who understood democracy

the life of Alexis de Tocqueville

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward ...

Adam Smith reconsidered

history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him-and why he matters Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher-one ...

Temas vanguardistas de la filosofía del derecho y política

El presente volumen contiene temas vanguardistas de la Filosofía del Derecho y Política, de rabiosa actualidad y controvertidos, tanto en la doctrina de los expertos como en la opinión pública, como son la narratología del derecho, el desarrollo sostenible, la inteligencia artificial y las patentes ...

El inicio de la Nueva Izquierda y la Escuela de Frankfurt

La Escuela de Frankfurt fue el comienzo de la revolución y de los 'ismos' que hoy pretenden destruir los cimientos de la civilización occidental cristiana. Estamos en condiciones de afirmar sin temor a equivocarnos al menos dos cosas: I) que tratamos aquí con el primer ...

La politica come mestiere

non-manuale per carriere, militanze e cittadinanza

Una volta c'erano i partiti, ormai persi nella notte della memoria collettiva, che risultavano rassicuranti per la loro continuità. Oggi chiamiamo partiti dei 'brand' effimeri, concepiti con gli stessi criteri di un prodotto commerciale destinato a durare una stagione o poco più. La loro ...

The embrace of capital

capitalism from the inside

The "spectre of communism" which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity, inequality, and greed, and love ...

The end of capitalism

the thought of Henryk Grossman

Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory - let alone the mass of working people around the world - have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew born in 1881, deserves recognition as the most sophisticated defender of ...

The presidency of Donald J. Trump

a first historical assessment

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings ...

Justice and the politics of difference

A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories of justice such ...

What can we hope for?

essays on politics

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost ...

The loud minority

why protests matter in american democracy

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates The "silent majority"-a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan-refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in ...

Del sueño democrático a la pesadilla populista

De nuevo, como tantas otras veces, todo comenzó con un sueño en un tiempo de crisis, el del asalto a los cielos como huida y rechazo de la dura realidad, de las secuelas de la especulación financiera, en particular del malestar social de la desigualdad ...

Una pandemia sin ciencia ni ética

Covid-19: fracaso sanitario, manipulación política y desastre socioeconómico

Dos años después del inicio de la pandemia, ya no hay ninguna duda sobre el fracaso de la gestión de la covid-19: medidas ineficaces, dañinas, autoritarias y sin justificación científica, basadas más en razones políticas que sanitarias, con maniobras represivas y mediáticas que han producido ...

El Leviatán y el imperio dormido

Nunca en la Historia se ha hablado, tanto como ahora y a la ligera, de la 'libertad', presunción frente a carencia, pero lo cierto es que jamás el hombre ha estado más atrapado, en cuerpo y alma, que en nuestros días, en unas tupidas redes ...