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Finally a book to empower us against the cancelers of the left and deep state conspiracists of the right

Revisado: 10-31-22

Rauch’s articulates a vibrant defense of the “knowledge based community” by drawing analogy between the legal operating system Of our political constitution and a fact based operating system.

This book is for anyone dismayed and disillusioned by the trolls, social media mobs, cancelers, bots and even a US president

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Puts our current political era in perspective

Revisado: 12-01-21

I picked out this book because it covers an era of American history mostly glossed over in high school history courses so I knew relatively little. Wow what an eye opener. It’s also bracing to know that as ugly as American politics is right now. It’s been worse

Presenting the history of the era through the story of the Kelley family made it both more enjoyable and memorable.

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The essential but mostly forgotten history leading up to the Russian and German revolutions of the 20th century

Revisado: 05-11-21

This is a dual story of a fascinating individual and how his life intersected with the tumultuous revolutionary era of the early 20th century. That era’s obsession with ethnicity and race is a cautionary tale for our own era of resurgent identity politics and tribalism

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wow

Revisado: 04-10-20

That’s a lot of useful and practical information. i’m going to listen again ! If you have the luxury of stationary time this a good book for paper version.

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Wow what a book

Revisado: 10-01-18

Pickers command of history, economics, philosophy and literature is impressive, and his presentation on the true state of virtually every measure of health wealth and education made me rethink a number of common assumptions we often arrive at as a result of the availability bias

He goes on to present the concept of identity protective cognition. This explains how people can be blinded to seeming obvious data if it challenges their identity as a (fill in the blank such as progressive, conservative, etc).

And If your a fan of Nietzche. Please read all the way to he final chapter.

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forget simplistic narratives of the left or right

Revisado: 12-21-14

we see here how Reagan played the vital role of enabler to Gorbachev. neither one without the other could not have ended the cold war. a great story

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