Showing results for "Tyranny" in Political Science

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...

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

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.

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.

'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...

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.