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  Reconsidering Reparations

  Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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  Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project—either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present; or, they focus on the past, emphasizing restitution for historical wrongs. Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues that neither approach is optimal, and advances a different case for reparations—one rooted in a hopeful future that tackles the issue of climate change head on, with distributive justice at its core. This view, which he calls the "constructive" view of reparations, argues that reparations should be seen as a future-oriented project engaged in building a better social order; and that the costs of building a more equitable world should be distributed more to those who have inherited the moral liabilities of past injustices. 
   
   
   
  This approach to reparations, as Táíwò shows, has deep and surprising roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr, and Nkechi Taifa, as well as mainstream political philosophers like John Rawls, Charles Mills, and Elizabeth Anderson. Táíwò's project has wide implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy.

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  Speaking Through Silence - A...

  Judi Shink

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  Speaking Through Silence is a heartfelt memoir about a first-generation American coming-of-age in the shadow of her four Holocaust Survivor grandparents. In this riveting read, Judi Shink uncovers the hidden histories, inherited silences, and enduring love that shaped her identity. She unravels her family’s complicated and devastating past to forge a new path, while accepting the mantle of legacy that demands she speak out about a new 21st century kind of hate against her people. This book asks us all to decide whether we’ll carry on the legacy of generations that came before, how we’ll find ways to belong in a new complicated world, and what it means to survive.

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  444 Days - The American Hostages...

  Davis Truman

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  It is an explosive true story of survival, betrayal, and the moment America lost its grip on the Middle East. 
  On November 4, 1979, 52 Americans were taken hostage inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, an act that stunned the world and sparked a 444-day standoff that shattered U.S. diplomacy and changed global politics forever. 
  In this pulse-pounding narrative, acclaimed historian Davis Truman pulls back the curtain on the backroom deals, psychological torment, and international missteps that defined one of the longest hostage crises in modern history. Drawing from declassified documents, secret cables, and firsthand interviews, 444 Days brings to life the human drama at the heart of a geopolitical disaster. 
  When diplomacy fails, what remains: bluster, betrayal, or a better way forward?

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  Today's Authors Series: A Q&A...

  David Kushner

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  If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!

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  The Grammar Of Restraint - A...

  Dolly Ronnai

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  The Grammar of Restraint is a structural inquiry into what happens when lived experience exceeds the narrative systems designed to contain it. 
  Western literature possesses refined tools for argument, theology, psychology, and analysis — but lacks a stable grammar for inner dialogue. When anomalous experience appears, it is often reduced to doctrine, diagnosis, or dismissal. 
  This book proposes something different: restraint. 
  Through four structural "Arcs," Dolly Ronnai examines how experience moves through stages of interpretation: 
  • Experience without instruction 
  • Analysis without doctrine 
  • Narrative without authority 
  • Incarnation without command 
  Rather than offering belief, this work offers containment — a method for holding unresolved experience without collapsing it into premature explanation. 
  Blending philosophy, narrative theory, religious history, and epistemological reflection, The Grammar of Restraint asks: 
  What if the problem is not the experience — but the grammar that attempts to contain it? 
  For readers interested in philosophy of consciousness, metaphysics, narrative structure, religious foundations, and the boundary between dreaming and waking life, this book offers a disciplined alternative to belief and denial alike. 
  It does not instruct. 
  It does not convert. 
  It does not conclude. 
  It builds a structure that can hold uncertainty without distortion.

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  Laws

  Plato

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  Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in prison 
   
  The Classical Greek philosopher Plato was instrumental in the development of Western philosophy and science. Plato was born to an aristocratic family and was well-educated. He founded the Academy, one of the first institutions of higher learning, around 385 BC. Plato was highly influenced by his teacher, Socrates. Socrates was condemned to death after being accused of corrupting his young followers. After Socrates' death, Plato recorded several dialogues detailing what he remembered from Socrates' teachings and interactions with others. Almost everything known about Socrates comes from Plato's dialogues. Plato's writings have been revised and interpreted by a variety of publishers.

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