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In this timely and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging "gaming the stats" or "teaching to the test"....

Chi sono i tiranni? Sono capi di Stato che rapiscono registi di fama per realizzare i propri film, che smerciano droga per mantenere i loro eccessi e che si presentano in pubblico vestiti da Batman. Secondo Freedom House, la democrazia si è deteriorata in quasi la metà dei paesi del mondo ed è sbarcata in Europa. Il 2024 è l'anno in cui si tengono più elezioni nella storia, con quasi 3 miliardi di persone che andranno al voto. Per accendere un faro sul tema, il podcast di Will va a caccia dei tiranni di oggi per spiegarvi come nascono e, soprattutto, come distinguerli in anticipo. ...

In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our...

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged...

Compelling and incisive, Autocracy 2.0 is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand China's meteoric rise and how today's autocrats are reshaping the technological frontier, governance, and the global balance of power.

Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple - once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom - have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations - controlled by the robber barons of the modern era - are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades.

Asset manager mega-giants BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have accumulated unprecedented levels of stock ownership in every major US company. Voting the shares they hold for clients allows these companies to force their own "environmental, social, and governance" or "ESG" agenda on the American corporate sector and, by extension, on all of us.

Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama administration … and what we can do to stop this leftist gang from seizing...

Geoeconomics, geopolitics and geostrategy. Gain valuable insights into broad global trends and indicators of the spread of tyranny. Get up-to-date perspective on breaking news stories from around the world - what Russia's aggression in Ukraine means for China, Taiwan, Iran and the rest of the world. Check out my latest book, "Mineral War": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GFNP46NB

A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our...

he United States is a legal drug cartel. Our drug laws are for the benefit of pharmaceutical tyrants. Our laws restrict access to affordable, effective medications, compelling the people to purchase expensive drugs from doctors. The Pharmaceutical Cartel conspires with law enforcement and the government to criminalize cheaper, safer alternatives.

On Tyranny is a show about political philosophy as applied to current events. It is the Podcast version of Ancient Greece Revisited, an online series of mini-documentaries that tries to rediscover the authentic culture of ancient Greeks. On Tyranny was born out of the need to apply some of the ideas discovered to the mass confusion of current events: from the restriction of our liberties in the wake of Covid to the rising globalism pushed by tech companies and mainstream media. Our goal is to apply the lessons of ancient political philosophy as found in Plato and Aristotle, to understand what ...

The nation is in flux. What has been, is no more. The changes made over a century ago are now being made manifest. Eyes are being opened and people are being to understand.Are we too far gone to change? Has Wilson's and Roosevelt's damage become irreparable? We are seeing the final lunge for the goal-line being made by the Marxist Democrats. Everything is in place regardless of what Trump tried to do. Tyranny rules and laws are abandoned, and the Constitution is ignored.Yeah, this tyranny in its rawest form.We ignore it.We will suffer...

P.K. Steinmark-Stevinson provides news, commentary, and compelling guest interviews in the battle of humanity against tyranny in a weekly podcast.

Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits.

We are being devoured by a the two party political scheme. The illusion of freedom, corruption on a national and global level. The puppet masters, Illuminati, the cult of personality and our insane and illogical society.

'Engrossing . . . has the vice-like grip of a thriller' - The Telegraph 'Fascinating, timely and sharp' - Simon Sebag Montefiore In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered...

Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern-day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution.

For the first time in history, the world shut itself down - by choice - all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses - many never to return. Almost every school and college in the country sent its students home to finish the school year in front of a computer. Churches cancelled worship services. “Social distancing” went from a non-word to a moral obligation overnight.

In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them. In exposing the inner workings of a "fear society", the authors explain why democracy is not beyond any nation's reach, why it is essential for our security, and why there is much that can be done to promote it around the world.