{"id":43141,"date":"2025-08-09T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:04:07","slug":"book-the-right-of-the-people-democracy-and-the-case-for-a-new-american-founding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/book-the-right-of-the-people-democracy-and-the-case-for-a-new-american-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTHE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE: DEMOCRACY AND THE CASE FOR A NEW AMERICAN FOUNDING\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Osita Nwanevu<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Not yet published Expected 12 Aug 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real\u2014from a formidable new voice in political journalism<\/strong>

Frustrated with our political dysfunction, wearied by the thinness of contemporary political discourse, and troubled by the rise of anti-democratic attitudes across the political spectrum, journalist Osita Nwanevu has spent the Trump era examining the very meaning of democracy in search of answers to questions many have asked in the wake of the 2024 election: Are our institutions fundamentally broken? How can a country so divided govern itself? Does democracy even work as well as we believe?

The Right of the People offers us challenging answers: while democracy remains vital, American democracy is an illusion we must make real by transforming not only our political institutions but the American economy. In a text that spans democratic theory, the American Founding, our aging political system, and the dizzying inequalities of our new Gilded Age, Nwanevu makes a visionary case for a political and economic agenda to fulfill the promise of American democracy and revive faith in the American project.

\u201cNearly two hundred fifty years ago, the men who founded America made a fundamental break not just from their old country but from the past\u2014casting off an order that had subjugated them with worn and weak ideas for the promise of true self-governance and greater prosperity in a new republic,\u201d Nwanevu writes. \u201cWith exactly their sense of purpose and even higher, more righteous ambitions for America than they themselves had, we should do the same now\u2060\u2014work as hard as we can in the decades ahead to \u2018institute new Government\u2019 for the benefit of all and not just the few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding Osita Nwanevu Not yet published Expected 12 Aug 25 A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real\u2014from a formidable new voice in political journalism Frustrated with our political dysfunction, wearied by the thinness… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43142,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions\/43142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}