Best Argument Against Democracy - April 2024

Liberalism And The Social Problem: "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill regularly tops the list of Great Britons of the 20th Century. And with good reason: he led Britain, at times when she stood alone, against the global evils of fascism. Born on November 30th, 1874, his upbringing, as one of the Marlborough family, a branch of the Spencer family, lacked a loving and affection relationship with his parents. His school record was undistinguished and at times poor. However he was a good polo player and an enthusiast for military adventure especially as he could write them up for newspapers and books. His military career was a quite remarkable; ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00KA8SZ68
• ASIN: B00KA8SZ68
• Manufacturer: Conflict

The Best Argument Against Democracy Is A Five Minute Conversation With The Average Voter.: Funny Sayings on the cover Journal 104 Lined Pages for ... Happiness Year Long Journal / Daily Notebook

Day Writing Journals the Blank Lined Notebook Writing Journal is ideal Gifts who Love day to day writing Notebooks and Capture Thoughts, Or for everyone who wish to surprise their favorite relative on holidays or all year long , but have no time. Family life Journals provide gift ideas for your relatives or loved ones and lets you make your holiday as a memorable one.Creative Taking Notes JournalExplore Your Inner Gratitude JournalingPerfect Gifts for your Relative on your Favorite Holiday, Father's Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas, Birthday, Graduate, Education, School, Special Occasion and E... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1075331331
• ASIN: 1075331331
• ISBN: 1075331331
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Against Democracy

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us―it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But, Jason Brennan says, they are all wrong.In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results―and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair tri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691162603
• ASIN: 0691162603
• ISBN: 0691162603
• Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Democracy - The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events. A compelling chapter on time preference describes the progress of civilization as lowering time preferences as capital structure is built, and explains how the interaction between people can l... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0765808684
• ASIN: 0765808684
• ISBN: 0765808684
• Manufacturer: Routledge

The Case Against Impeaching Trump

"Alan Dershowitz is a brilliant lawyer...He has written a new and very important book called The Case Against Impeaching Trump, which I would encourage all people...to read!"—President Donald TrumpThe New York Times bestseller“This brand new book by Professor Dershowitz is absolutely amazing….If you care about justice and the President with the witch hunt, you’re going to want to read this book.”—Sean Hannity “Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it’s what happened to everyone else.”—PoliticoAlan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 151074228X
• ASIN: 151074228X
• ISBN: 151074228X
• Brand: Hot Books
• Manufacturer: Hot Books

The Case Against Sugar

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Am... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307946649
• ASIN: 0307946649
• ISBN: 0307946649
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

• ASIN: B073TJBYTB
• ASIN: B073TJBYTB
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.   “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times   Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary rec... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101904933
• ASIN: 1101904933
• ISBN: 1101904933
• Manufacturer: Crown Forum

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They d... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691178240
• ASIN: 0691178240
• ISBN: 0691178240
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Socrates Against Athens

As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito, Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the trial.

• ASIN: 0415926548
• ASIN: 0415926548
• ISBN: 0415926548
• Manufacturer: Routledge

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as un... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0190469412
• ASIN: 0190469412
• ISBN: 0190469412
• Brand: Oxford University Press
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism -- now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0465060684
• ASIN: 0465060684
• ISBN: 9780465060689
• Manufacturer: Basic Books

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spot... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812982223
• ASIN: 0812982223
• ISBN: 9780812982220
• Brand: Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Psychological Warfare and the New World Order: The Secret War Against the American People

America is at war. But this not a conventional war waged with tanks, battleships and planes in conventional battlefields —at least not yet. It is a secret, insidious type of war whose battleground is the people’s minds. Its main weapons are propaganda and mass brainwashing by disinformation, cunning, deception and lies in a large scale not used against the people of any nation since Nazi Germany. Though important, however, those elements are just part of a series of carefully planned and executed long and short-term psychological warfare operations. In synthesis, it is a psychological war ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0932367232
• ASIN: 0932367232
• ISBN: 0932367232
• Brand: Brand: Spooks Books
• Manufacturer: Ediciones El Gato Tuerto

Stupidparty Math v. Myth: Unmasking the Destructive Forces Eroding American Democracy (StupidpartyLand Book 1)

2015 Award Winner, National Indie Excellence Book Award (Politics)“It is possibly the funnest book with an agenda ever published.” (Breeni Books)The use of comics at the beginning of the chapters had me chuckling and anticipating what I would read in the following chapter instead of just flipping through page after page of words, words, and more words. (Teresa, reviewer)StupidParty: Math vs Myth is a sometimes comical look at the current state of the Grand Old Party and how their Tea Party conservatives are missing the truth behind the numbers. The book should be required reading for Repub... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NYBTRDI
• ASIN: B00NYBTRDI
• Manufacturer: Fact over Fiction Publishing Ltd.

The Best Argument against God - eBook

.... compares two theories—Naturalism and Theism—on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is

• UPC: 775543974

Nuclear Power: Both Sides : The Best Arguments for and Against the Most Controversial Technology

"A guide for the perplexed citizen that provides cogent arguments from both sides of this complex issue." Science

• UPC: 35988084

The Best Argument Against God

.... compares two theories--Naturalism and Theism--on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is

• UPC: 25939603