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  Born This Way - Science...

  Joanna Wuest

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  The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. 
   
  Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over “groomers” and a contagious “gender ideology” that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the history of what first compelled the hunt for homosexuality’s biological origin story may hold answers for the queer rights movement’s future. 
  Born This Way tells the story of how a biologically based understanding of gender and sexuality became central to LGBTQ+ advocacy. Starting in the 1950s, activists sought out mental health experts to combat the pathologizing of homosexuality. As Joanna Wuest shows, these relationships were forged in subsequent decades alongside two broader, concurrent developments: the rise of an interest-group model of rights advocacy and an explosion of biogenetic and bio-based psychological research. The result is essential reading to fully understand LGBTQ+ activism today and how clashes over science remain crucial to equal rights struggles.

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  Social Democracy 101: Jack...

  Shane Irvine, Alexander Irvine,...

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  In 1906, my great-grandfather Dr. Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Connecticut and a fellow at Yale University where he taught studies in divinity. He sought to shed some light on the subject of social protection. He had first-hand experience as a reverend in the New Haven religious community. He became very aware of parishioner stealing and other forms of skulduggery used to acquire the most prosperous benefactors. He despised the practice of selectively seeking profitable parishioners while ignoring the plight of the downtrodden. He felt that this practice was in conflict with Jesus’ teachings. He thereafter invited Jack London to speak at Yale on the subject of socialism. This book is derivative of my great-grandfather's book, Jack London at Yale. 
  My great-grandfather further believed that, due to this hypocrisy involving the church’s duty to the poor, the government needed to take an active role in offering a hand up to those in need. He strongly advocated that it should not be assumed that the church and pity be the sole final resources for those in need, and the government needed to take an active role in providing social networks. 
  Health, education, and welfare are major barriers to entrepreneurial opportunity. Without forms of social democracy such as universal healthcare and education, the potential for mass enterprise is squandered. People are precluded by these basic economic barriers from reaching their potential. It is these issues that have continued to plague workers worldwide, and people of all persuasions and walks of life are affected by this ongoing class struggle. We need individualism and a free market society, and we also need it to be tamed with a fairness that, along with prosperity, provides protections for the vulnerable and opportunity for all. Health, education, and welfare are just as important as a strong military. All of them are forms of social democracy. 

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  The Human Condition - What...

  Jeremy Griffith

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  This 2025 book, The Human Condition, by biologist Jeremy Griffith is one of his three most important presentations on the human condition, serving as a powerful short-in-length bridge between the other two — his very short introduction in THE Interview and his comprehensive presentation in FREEDOM. It also takes his human-race-saving insights to a new depth of clarity — so it is a MUST READ! 
  It is not a big book but has everything in it. BAM, BAM, BAM, step by step, massive explanation after massive explanation. Before you know it you’re right at the bottom of the well looking in on the horror and reality of our prison of depression and anger, and you just know it’s true, it’s so obvious and clear. 
  And then it just keeps going, just keeps giving example after example of the problem, which all the time is coupled with the relief of the redeeming understanding of ourselves – and the freedom to leave all the madness behind now that humanity’s great battle is won. 
  This book is everything, it’s all undeniable, it just puts an end to the human condition forever, kills it stone dead – thank goodness!

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  The Lands in Between - Russia vs...

  Mitchell A. Orenstein

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  Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the European Union have been dealing with these issues for years. 
   
   
   
  The Lands in Between contends that these "lands in between" hold powerful lessons for Western countries. For Western politics is becoming increasingly similar to the lands in between, where hybrid warfare has polarized parties and voters into two camps: those who support a Western vision of liberal democracy and those who support a Russian vision of nationalist authoritarianism. Paradoxically, while politics increasingly boils down to a zero sum "civilizational choice" between Russia and the West, those who rise to the pinnacle of the political system in the lands in between are often non-ideological power brokers who have found a way to profit from both sides, taking rewards from both Russia and the West. Increasingly, the political pathologies of these small, vulnerable, and backwards states in Europe are our problems too. In this deepening conflict, we are all lands in between.

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  State vs Algorithm - Digital...

  Matías Bianchi

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  Democracy no longer seems to deliver on its promise. As polarization, disillusionment, and extremist leadership grow, a new alliance between techno-financial elites and reactionary right-wing movements is redefining the world in the interest of their own privilege.
  In this lucid and provocative book, Matías Bianchi examines the crisis of the nation-state and the hollowing out of democratic power. But far from stopping at diagnosis, he proposes a refoundation: new forms of "stateness" capable of defending the common good against the advance of the techno-feudal order.
  With an eye on the Global South as a space for political innovation, this is an essential book for anyone who refuses to give up and believes it is still possible to reinvent democracy in the 21st century.
  "State vs. Algorithm is an exceptionally intelligent book. It raises profound questions about the viability of democracy, today besieged by the rise of a digital aristocracy with virtually unlimited power. But above all, it rediscovers the democratic promise in surprising places, especially in the Global South, where the formation of broad social coalitions and the activation of community solidarity has always offered the best protection for human dignity and democratic values, now under mortal threat" (Kevin Casas Z., Secretary General of International IDEA).
  "This book offers a compelling vision of how defenders of democracy around the world can come together to defend what matters most: an inclusive, representative, and just form of government. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a clear analysis of the current situation and a realistic roadmap for the work ahead" (Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center).
  "This book offers no easy answers, and that is one of its greatest strengths. It poses questions, challenges us, and above all, calls us to action. It reminds us that democracy is not a guaranteed state, but an ongoing task for every generation" (Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile).

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  The Cancel Culture Panic - How...

  Adrian Daub

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  In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning, media that have taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be. 
   
   
   
  From French crusades against "le wokisme" via British fables of the "loony left" to a German obsession with campus anecdotes to a global revolt against "gender studies": countries the world over have developed culture war narratives in conflict with the US, and, above all, its universities—narratives that they themselves borrowed from the US. 
   
   
   
  Who exactly is afraid of cancel culture? To trace how various global publics have been so quickly convinced that cancel culture exists and that it poses an existential problem, Daub compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of "being cancelled" has on people around the world.

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