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The Aftermath
- The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
- De: Philip Bump
- Narrado por: Matthew Berry
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. Bump helps us navigate the flood of data in which our sense of the country now drowns. He fits numbers into a narrative about who we are (including what "we" really means), how we vote, where we live, what we buy—and what predictions we can make with any confidence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Look at American Beliefs by Age Group
- De Terre Spencer en 01-25-23
- The Aftermath
- The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
- De: Philip Bump
- Narrado por: Matthew Berry
Interesting Look at American Beliefs by Age Group
Revisado: 01-25-23
I am on the last chapter—I really like the content. Utter fascinating! And the analysis is excellent. I know individuals in almost every category/sub-group described. It very aptly helps me understand some views of those who hold views other than mine.
The presenter mispronounces enough words to make me irritable. For instance—the word "popular" is pronounced "pop-A-ler over and over again. Other words with a "u" between two syllables are similarly mispronounced and the syllables following the "u" are mumble-mangled. Sorry, that really bothers me. Also, his pronunciation of the word "gender" sounds like "ginger."
This is a time I should have purchased the print version.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism
- De: John Zmirak
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism refutes misrepresentations and misconceptions about the Catholic Church and separates rumor from truth when it comes to Catholic traditions, faith, and controversial leaders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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uncomfortably true
- De snozek en 05-11-18
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism
- De: John Zmirak
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
Good for a laugh
Revisado: 11-09-21
Man, oh, man, (and I do mean m-a-n) does this guy hate feminism! And women. And the American Democratic Party. And anything about abortion. And, well, all tenets other than his own. Whew! There is a misogynistic tirade in nearly every alternating chapter, spewn whilst defending Catholicism. The other chapters are spent just defending Catholicism in one way or another, sometimes defensibly, usually to great comic effect.
I spent every chapter blowing holes in his arguments using rationales he previously offered—which is great fun while walking briskly. There are too many logical fallacies to enumerate here; the short version is that you must be a "faithful" Catholic (by his exact reckoning) and swallow his erroneous rationales, or you are wrong. If you fail to agree with him, you should just leave the church. Hint: just leave the RCC if you are female, the misogny is toxic.
Several places in the book he mentions that Catholics are losing 40% of their born-to-Catholic-parents' demographics. Reading this stream of blind woman-hatred is exactly why, although he fails to mention that women leave the RCC in bigger numbers than men. His chapter on Mary Daly especially expresses Catholicism's misogyny as well as his own.
Yet, I laughed at his centuries-old nonsense and the vehemence with which he delivered his beliefs about how the world should be. The fallacies were *that* obvious and gaping.
Who says that feminists do not have a sense of humor? Once past the chilling effect on women's lives this fellow wants for all women—Catholic or otherwise—the book is really laugh-out-loud humorous, full of ridiculous exaggerations, self-contradictions and inept conclusions.
Read it for a risible look at a couple of thousand of years' of woman-hating defended by a near-raving man that one might picture waving a tattered bible and yelling religious dogma on a crowded city street corner. Worth the chuckle if that is what you are up for in a book.
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Property
- De: Raymond Frey
- Narrado por: Cliff Robertson, Robert Guillaume
- Duración: 3 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Property fundamentally marks how we as individuals are related both to other individuals and to society at large. In its strongest form, property absolutely excludes others from possessing, using, or in any way controlling what we own. However, others have insisted that basic human necessity (e.g. hunger) may overrule the power of individual property.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not encyclopedic, but thought-provoking
- De Philo en 08-27-12
- Property
- De: Raymond Frey
- Narrado por: Cliff Robertson, Robert Guillaume
Property Past
Revisado: 11-30-06
This piece gives a fair overview of Western European and American ideas of ownership. I was hoping for a more historically comprehnsive and worldwide compilation of views and especially ideas for ownership concepts and legal adaptations for the future.
Patriarchal concepts and laws that consider women, land and natural resources children as property in most of the world were unchallenged/unquestioned in this piece. "Property" describes without questioning the ethical basis and ramifications of Western ideas/laws regarding ownership. So three stars for description and one star for enquiry. No stars at all for failing to examine more concepts.
There is an incompletedness about the piece as it is. perhaps a companion piece with a broader information base would allow the listener/reader to begin to create new innovations that would make this world a better place for all those affected by ideas and laws regarding the concept of "property."
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