Always at war, Colley, Thomas

Автор: Reed Lawrence W.
Название: Was Jesus a Socialist?: Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong
ISBN: 1610171608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610171601
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Socialism is making a comeback—and so is the idea that “Jesus was a socialist.” In this timely new book, Foundation for Economic Education president emeritus Lawrence W. Reed shows it is pure fantasy to believe that Jesus wanted earthly governments to redistribute wealth, centrally plan the economy, or impose welfare states.

Economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed has been hearing people say “Jesus was a socialist” for fifty years. And it has always bothered him.

Now he is doing something about it.

His new book demolishes the claim that Jesus was a socialist. Jesus called on earthly governments to redistribute wealth? Or centrally plan the economy? Or even impose a welfare state?

Hardly.

Point by point, Reed answers the claims of socialists and progressives who try to enlist Jesus in their causes. As he reveals, nothing in the New Testament supports their contentions.

Was Jesus a Socialist? could not be more timely. Socialism has made a shocking comeback in America. Poll after poll shows that young Americans have a positive image of socialism. In fact, more than half say they would rather live in a socialist country than in a capitalist one.

And as socialism has come back into vogue, more and more of its advocates have tried to convince us that Jesus was a socialist.

This rhetoric has had an impact. According to a 2016 poll by the Barna Group, Americans think socialism aligns better with Jesus’s teachings than capitalism does. When respondents were asked which of that year’s presidential candidates aligned closest to Jesus’s teachings, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” came out on top. Sure enough, the same candidate earned more primary votes from under-thirty voters than did the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees combined.

And in a 2019 survey, more than 70 percent of millennials said they were likely to vote for a socialist.

Was Jesus a Socialist? expands on the immensely popular video of the same name that Reed recorded for Prager University in July 2019. That video has attracted more than four million views online.

Ultimately, Reed shows the foolishness of trying to enlist Jesus in any political cause today. He writes: “While I don’t believe it is valid to claim that Jesus was a socialist, I also don’t think it is valid to argue that he was a capitalist. Neither was he a Republican or a Democrat. These are modern-day terms, and to apply any of them to Jesus is to limit him to but a fraction of who he was and what he taught.”

Автор: Bromell Nicholas Knowles
Название: The Time Is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of Us Democracy
ISBN: 0199973431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199973439
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Nick Bromell argues in The Time is Always Now that blacks` reflections on their painful experience and their ability to advocate for people `both black and more than black` (an Obama quote) provides us with the foundation for constructing a democracy that is less angry and more welcoming of a cosmopolitan polity.

Автор: Crandall Maurice S.
Название: These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912
ISBN: 1469652668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469652665
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Описание: Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.

Автор: Eland Ivan
Название: The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Why Hearts and Minds Are Not Always Won (Working Title)
ISBN: 1440830096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440830099
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book examines the implications of counterinsurgency warfare for U.S. defense policy and makes the compelling argument that the United States` default position on counterinsurgency wars should be to avoid them.

Автор: Colley Thomas
Название: Always at War: British Public Narratives of War
ISBN: 0472131443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472131440
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Описание: Examines the stories told by a broad cross-section of British society about their country`s past, present, and future role in war, using in-depth interviews with 67 diverse citizens. It brings to the fore the voices of ordinary people in ways typically absent in public opinion research.

Автор: Maurice S. Crandall
Название: These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
ISBN: 146965265X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469652658
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.