book reviews

Reviews for political die-hards of books about politicians, civil rights, Supreme Court rulings and the ever-changing Swamp.

Warning, Or Tombstone? Douglas Murray's "The Madness of Crowds"
Warning, Or Tombstone: Douglas Murray’s “The Madness of Crowds” We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like, and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes.
By Grant Patterson5 years ago in The Swamp
What if Queen choose books over her duty: The uncommon reader review
Alan Bennet wrote the “The Uncommon Reader” that s based on fictional story of Queen Elizabeth. Queen is an important figure who was not allowed to have her preferences. She had to fulfil the duty but soon she discovered her passion for reading. Through reading, she was able to find her real self.
By Nawal Imran5 years ago in The Swamp
25 Best Books to Understand the Israel-Palestine Conflict
We are talking about Best Books to Understand the Israel-Palestine Conflict. For most ordinary readers, reading books that have been tested for a long time and still retain a strong explanatory power is a shortcut to refer to this international difficult situation, or at least it will help most ordinary readers. Understand the basic clues and background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a perspective
By Muhiuddin Alam5 years ago in The Swamp
It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom - Judge Napolitano
Judge Andrew Napolitano and his Legal Journey Judge Andrew Napolitano is a rather famous personality in the legal system of United States of America (USA) and a columnist whose work shows up in various publications, including The Washington Times and Reason. The highlight of his legal journey was when he became the youngest Superior Court Judge of New Jersey at that time in 1987. He served as the Superior Court Judge of New Jersey from 1987 till 1995. Then, in 1995, he resigned from his position as the judge of Superior Court to continue working in the legal system of United States of America (USA) as a private practitioner. In addition to his private law practice, he also worked in the educational field as a teacher of law in United States of America (USA).
By Andrew Napolitano 5 years ago in The Swamp
Book review, commentary, and narrative summary of Inventing the Future
“Work, no matter how degrading or low-paid or inconvenient, is deemed an ultimate good. This is the mantra of both mainstream political parties and most trade unions, associated with rhetoric about getting people back into work, the importance of working families, and cutting welfare so that ‘it always pays to work’”
By Arsh K.S5 years ago in The Swamp
Review of ‘In Theory: Classes, Nations and Literatures’ by Aijaz Ahmad
First published in 1992 immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, ‘In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures’ by Aizaj Ahmad takes up the national question at a world historic moment where governments negotiate at the cusp of a global geo-political reordering of allegiances. The political impetus provided by the establishment of State Socialism, first in USSR and then in China provided the crucial reinforcement needed for the spine of a global anti-imperialist wave which witnessed the liberation of Vietnam, the spread of revolutionary energies into Cuba, the decolonization of much of Africa and the cementing of Eastern Europe into a Socialist bastion – largely enabled by economic, military and technological aid from the first two countries to have harboured Proletarian Revolutions.
By Arsh K.S5 years ago in The Swamp
Free Speech in the Modern World
Back in the heady days of the early 1990s, technologists predicted that the internet would herald a new era of free speech. The boundaryless nature of what they were creating would free humankind from the shackles of expression oppression. Or so the story went. For a time, the idealists were right. Then corporations and governments learned how to harness the technology differently. The great Chinese Firewall, internet sovereignty, personal information marketplaces, cyberbullying, hacking, and intelligence monitoring changed all that. Free speech simultaneously exploded and got massively curtailed, all in one fell swoop. In Timothy Garton Ash’s Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World, we explore some of the stickiest quandaries of the modern era. Has the internet become a detriment to freedom? Has it merely enabled governments to monitor the population more closely? Have we encountered the death of privacy? Is free speech free anymore?
By Drew Jaehnig5 years ago in The Swamp
The politics of refusal
In the opening chapter of I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security, edited by Asim Qureshi, contributor Shenaz Bungalwala documents the contradictory expectations that British Muslims have navigated since the onset of the US-led "war on terror" in 2001.
By Rebecca Ruth Gould5 years ago in The Swamp
Review of Stamped From the Beginning & Just Mercy
Before I begin please make sure to read my other stories and watch the video attached which is my review of another great book call, The Fragile Mind. Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube gaming channel. You will find many of my reviews under my Moron Reviews playlist. Please note I am not the greatest person to give reviews but both, Stamped from the Beginning and Just Mercy should be on your reading list.
By Ferrari King5 years ago in The Swamp
Does Eating Dog Make You A Liberal?
“A family’s dog was killed by a car in front of their house. They had heard that dog meat was delicious, so they cut up the dog’s body and cooked it and ate it for dinner. Nobody saw them do this.” — Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
By Akarsh Nalawade5 years ago in The Swamp
"Saving Ruby King" - 2020's Most Underrated Book
Racism, deceit, murder: three words that Chicagoans hear every day, leaving them numbed by and complicit to the daily news reports from all over the city. A new shooting here, a new shooting there. Everything that goes on just becomes another bleep in the scanner.
By Angela Lindemulder 5 years ago in The Swamp
Book Review: “The Dead Are Arising” by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Les Payne spent the majority of his life researching the facts for his books in order to separate facts from fictions and in order to show us the people behind the myths. This is also true for his book on Malcolm X. Now, you all know that I am a huge fan of Malcolm X and that I have a poster of him on my bedroom wall. This book was something I just could not pass over. It starts off slightly before Malcolm X was born in Nebraska and then travels through until slightly after his death in Harlem. Through it, we meet people who knew him, we meet people who were related to him, the Nation of Islam figures, the cops and spies who marked him and even people who met him on the streets. The book turns out to be a factual account that splits the man from the myth and actually shows us how Malcolm X built himself up over the years as a person.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in The Swamp