Conservatism: America’s Personality Disorder Christopher Armitage, D. Carl Brown AMERICA’S PERSONALITY DISORDER Conservatives often defend policies that feel hard-hearted. Why? Christopher Armitage and D. Carl Brown argue the root problem is a measurable empathy gap, not mere ideology. Their concise analysis shows how this gap drives positions on poverty, immigration, pollution,… Continue reading
Arts + CultureCultureLitNews + PoliticsBusiness + Tech Exploring SF’s recent history: New book looks at 1990 to 2024 Booms, busts, tech, evictions, Burning Man… We talk to ‘City on the Edge’ author Jonathan Weber about our contentious moment. By Tim Redmond July 14, 2026 (48hills.org) San Francisco has changed profoundly… Continue reading
Follow the author Gary Lucks We Are the Power: To Win the Future (Unite and Take Action – The American Unity and Integrity Project) by Gary Lucks (Author) Format: Paperback They Said It Couldn’t Be Done.Sixteen years ago, Viktor Orbán came to power in Hungary through a democratic election, then captured the courts, silenced… Continue reading
The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy Jeffrey A. Winters The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the masses throughout most of human history. This is starkly visible now more than ever—today, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen is larger than any gap that existed during European… Continue reading
Skip to content Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times PRE-ORDER BOOK Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times Skye Perryman — President & CEO of Democracy Forward and TIME 100 honoree — makes the case that defending democracy isn’t the job of lawyers or politicians alone — it’s a role for every one of us…. Continue reading
Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly; Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man Thomas Paine The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve… Continue reading
The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Michael Lux This is an accessible book that delineates how progressives and the progressive movement have created the American idea and ideals and forged the kind of country in which we want to live. It creates a platform from… Continue reading
(Image from Amazon.com) For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness by Yotam Marom is a non-fiction book that challenges progressive and left-wing movements to overcome their ambivalence toward power, insularity, and comfortable defeat, offering strategies for more effective, strategic, and loving political activism. [1] Book Details Why Readers… Continue reading
A Terrible Love of War James Hillman War is a timeless force in the human imagination—and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, its soldiers and its victims discover a paradoxical yet profound sense of existing, of being human. In A Terrible Love of War , James… Continue reading
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich Evan Osnos From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultra-rich shape—and sometimes warp—our social and… Continue reading
