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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a side. Murray is not Jewish and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel. However, he objects to being lied to, and Israel has been on the receiving end of the biggest, deepest, longest lies in history.  Israel's commitment to fundamental Western values—capitalism, individual rights, democracy, and reason—has made it a beacon of progress in a region dominated by authoritarianism and extremism. Israel’s principles vividly contrast with the ideology of Hamas, which openly proclaims its love of death over life. With incisive moral clarity, On Democracies and Death Cults exposes how the campus left and international establishment confuse this conflict by: Calling on Israel for restraint and proportionality, while Hamas commits genocide.Slandering Israelis as white colonialists, while only a third of Israelis are Jews of European ancestry.Framing the conflict as oppressor vs. oppressed, when it is really between a thriving multi-ethnic democracy and a death cult bent on its annihilation.  Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon, Douglas Murray places the latest violence in its proper historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, piecing together the exclusive accounts from victims, survivors, and even the terrorists responsible for the atrocities. If left unchecked, misplaced sympathy could embolden forces that seek to undermine not only Israel, but all of Western civilization. |
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" Vous avez voulu l'enfer, vous aurez l'enfer. " C'est en ces termes que l'armée israélienne a déclenché sa guerre contre la bande de Gaza après les attentats du 7 octobre 2023. Une guerre qui, malgré sa violence, sa durée et ses répercussions planétaires, se déroule à huis clos. Aucun journaliste ou reporter étranger n'a accès à l'enclave palestinienne. Tout ce que nous savons de Gaza est raconté de l'extérieur. Pourtant, en décembre 2024, Jean-Pierre Filiu a réussi à se rendre dans la bande de Gaza pour y vivre pendant un peu plus d'un mois. Il connaît intimement ce territoire, sa géographie et son peuple, dont il parle la langue. Sur place, l'historien s'est fait enquêteur. Il nous permet de renouer avec les humbles et les sans-grade de ce territoire abandonné du monde. Leur combat quotidien pour la survie et pour la dignité nous offre une formidable leçon d'humanité, car ce qui se déroule dans cette prison à ciel ouvert a et aura une valeur universelle. |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” ( Vox ) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” ( The New York Times ) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. |
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Mein Kampf written by Adolf Hitler is known as one of the most dangerous books in history. It is a fundamental exposition of Nazi ideology, which caused deaths of milions of people. The publisher would like to inform, that propaganda of any totalitarianism, such as Nazism, Fascism and Communism is not his target and this book should be only perceived as a historical source. Every man wanting to understand the complexity of the World War II should be acquainted with this position.  |
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Instant Bestseller Like a John Le Carré novel updated for the digital age, Chasing Shadows provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases and protects people in countries around the world. Called “essential reading” by Margaret Atwood, it’s a chilling reminder of the invisible invasions happening on smartphones and computers around the world. In this real-life spy thriller, cyber security expert Ronald Deibert details the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance. He reveals how his team of digital sleuths at the Citizen Lab have lifted the lid on dozens of covert operations targeting innocent citizens everywhere. Chasing Shadows provides a front-row seat to a dark underworld of digital espionage, disinformation, and subversion. There, autocrats and dictators peer into their targets’ lives with the mere press of a button, spreading their tentacles of authoritarianism through a digital ecosystem that is insecure, poorly regulated, and prone to abuse. The activists, opposition figures, and journalists who dare to advocate for basic political rights and freedoms are hounded, arrested, tortured, and sometimes murdered. From the gritty streets of Guatemala City to the corridors of power in the White House, this compelling narrative traces the journey of the Citizen Lab as it evolved into a globally renowned source of counterintelligence for civil society. As this small team of investigators disarmed cyber mercenaries and helped to improve the digital security of billions of people worldwide, their success brought them, too, into the same sinister crosshairs that plagued the victims they worked to protect. Deibert recounts how the Lab exposed the world’s pre-eminent cyber-mercenary firm, Israel-based NSO Group—the creators of the phone-hacking marvel Pegasus—in a series of human rights abuses, from domestic spying scandals in Spain, Poland, Hungary, and Greece to its implication in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. |
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"Aujourd’hui, l’heure des prédateurs a sonné et partout les choses évoluent d’une telle façon que tout ce qui doit être réglé le sera par le feu et par l’épée. Ce petit livre est le récit de cette conquête, écrit du point de vue d’un scribe aztèque et à sa manière, par images, plutôt que par concepts, dans le but de saisir le souffle d’un monde, au moment où il sombre dans l’abîme, et l’emprise glacée d’un autre, qui prend sa place." Giuliano da Empoli nous livre le compte-rendu aussi haletant que glaçant de ses pérégrinations au pays de la puissance, de New York à Riyad, de l’ONU au Ritz-Carlton de MBS. Il nous guide de l’autre côté du miroir, là où le pouvoir s’acquiert par des actions irréfléchies et tapageuses, où des autocrates décomplexés sont à l’affût du maximum de chaos, où les seigneurs de la tech semblent déjà habiter un autre monde, où l’IA s’avère incontrôlable… Aucun doute, l’heure des prédateurs a sonné. L’auteur du Mage du Kremlin les regarde en face, avec la lucidité d’un Machiavel et la hauteur de vue du moraliste. Giuliano da Empoli est un écrivain et un conseiller politique italien et suisse. Ses livres Les ingénieurs du chaos et Le mage du Kremlin ont été traduits en plus de trente langues. |
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Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot. In February 2002 Kiriakou was the head of counterterrorism in Pakistan. Under his command, in a spectacular raid coordinated with Pakistani agents and the CIA’s best intelligence analyst, Kiriakou’s field officers took down the infamous terrorist Abu Zubaydah. For days, Kiriakou became the wounded terrorist’s personal “bodyguard.” In circumstances stranger than fiction, as al-Qaeda agents scoured the streets for their captured leader, the best trauma surgeon in America was flown to Pakistan to make sure that Zubaydah did not die. In The Reluctant Spy , Kiriakou takes us into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book’s most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it—or could attempt to stop it.   Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the truth behind the torture debate, and the incredible dedication of ordinary men and women doing one of the most extraordinary jobs on earth.   |
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Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury , once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. Just one year into Donald Trump’s term as president, Michael Wolff told the electrifying story of a White House consumed by controversy, chaos, and intense rivalries. Fire and Fury , an instant sensation, defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege , Wolff has written an equally essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire from almost every side. At the outset of Trump’s second year as president, his situation is profoundly different. No longer tempered by experienced advisers, he is more impulsive and volatile than ever. But the wheels of justice are inexorably turning: Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” haunts Trump every day, and other federal prosecutors are taking a deep dive into his business affairs. Many in the political establishment—even some members of his own administration—have turned on him and are dedicated to bringing him down. The Democrats see victory at the polls, and perhaps impeachment, in front of them. Trump, meanwhile, is certain he is invincible, making him all the more exposed and vulnerable. Week by week, as Trump becomes increasingly erratic, the question that lies at the heart of his tenure becomes ever more urgent: Will this most abnormal of presidencies at last reach the breaking point and implode? Both a riveting narrative and a brilliant front-lines report, Siege provides an alarming and indelible portrait of a president like no other. Surrounded by enemies and blind to his peril, Trump is a raging, self-destructive inferno—and the most divisive leader in American history. |
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The 50th anniversary edition of “the best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process” ( The New York Times Book Review ) featuring a new foreword from Johnny Knoxville. A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson “the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism” ( The New York Times ). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written—and that is just as relevant to the many ills and issues roiling the nation today. As Johnny Knoxville writes in his foreword to this 50th anniversary edition: “Hunter predicted it all.” |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “visionary” ( The Guardian ) exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny “[Snyder’s] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for the future.” —Los Angeles Times Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for. Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to —the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible. On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace. |
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Unrestricted Warfare is the People’s Liberation Army manual for asymmetric warfare and the waging of war, strategically and tactically, using weapons not limited to bullets, bombs, missiles, and artillery shells. The two PLA officers who advocated the strategy set forth in the following pages argue that modern warfare, in ways not too dissimilar from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, is about impeding the enemy’s ability to wage war and to defend itself against a barrage of attacks against its economy, its civil institutions, its governmental structures, and its actual belief system. |
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What Shakespeare’s plays can teach us about modern-day politics  William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost.  In The Hollow Crown , Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better understand power and politics today. The White House, after all, is a court—with intrigue and conflict rivaling those on the Globe’s stage—as is an army, a business, or a university. And each court is full of driven characters, in all their ambition, cruelty, and humanity. Henry V ’s inspiring speeches reframe John F. Kennedy’s appeal, Richard III ’s wantonness illuminates Vladimir Putin’s brutality, and The Tempest ’s grace offers a window into the presidency of George Washington.  An original and incisive perspective, The Hollow Crown shows how Shakespeare’s works transform our understanding of the leaders who, for good or ill, make and rule our world.  |
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Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different. The book discusses whether or not these differences are growing, the key results of such differences, and the major challenges to be faced in each system. Focusing on institutions, political cultures, and social values, the book shows how both federal systems are extremely complex and how our institutions, cultures, and historical experiences often lead to very different outcomes. The fifth edition discusses the emergence of vital new issues, including the pandemic and its effects, climate change, energy requirements, increasing international tensions, and new trade problems. This book also reviews massive budgetary changes, new forms of protest emerging in Canada, and an ongoing political crisis in the US instigated bya former president convincing millions that the 2020 election was a hoax. Written by leading scholars in their field, Canada and the United States reveals how the two countries compare when dealing with similar problems that often spill across the border. |
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The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision making is increasingly centralized in the Prime Minister’s Office. What is happening to our democracy? In this persuasive book, Alex argues that political parties and government are beholden to the same marketing principles used by the world’s largest corporations. Called branding, the strategy demands repetition of spoken, written, and visual messages, predetermined by the leader’s inner circle. Marland warns that public sector branding is an unstoppable force that will persist no matter who is in power. It also creates serious problems for parliamentary democracy that must be confronted. This book will fascinate anyone who is interested in how Ottawa works and where Canadian politics is headed. |
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Vous souhaitez améliorer vos conditions de travail? Vous essayez de vous organiser, mais vos collègues ne semblent pas intéressé·es par le syndicat? Vos assemblées générales sont vides ? Votre syndicat semble incapable de régler les problèmes au travail? Vous voulez confronter un·e patron·ne toxique? Ce guide de renouveau syndical est pour vous. Il vous propose une démarche, étape par étape, pour planifier des actions collectives qui fonctionnent. Les principes fondamentaux de l’organisation syndicale sont présentés sous la forme de 47 «secrets», regroupés en 8 leçons, chacune d’entre elles étant illustrée par des exemples concrets provenant des États-Unis, du Canada et du Québec. Chaque leçon comporte également des conseils, des exercices et des documents de formation à télécharger. Organiser, mobiliser, gagner est une adaptation québécoise de la formation Secrets of a Successful Organizer, elle-même le fruit de 40 années d’expériences victorieuses sur le terrain par l’organisation américaine Labor Notes. S’inscrivant dans la mouvance du «syndicalisme de transformation sociale», ce guide s’adresse à la fois aux personnes qui débutent leur implication dans le monde syndical et aux militant·es d’expérience à la recherche de pratiques inspirantes. Devant les défis que posent l’économie mondialisée et les mutations du monde du travail, ce livre nous rappelle tout le pouvoir de l’action collective et nous outille pour transformer ensemble nos milieux de travail et nos communautés. |
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La justification du système explore les mécanismes psychologiques qui poussent les individus à défendre et à maintenir les systèmes sociaux, économiques et politiques actuels. Elle offre une nouvelle perspective, remettant en question les points de vue conventionnels sur la résistance et le changement sociétal. En science politique, comprendre la justification du système est essentiel pour comprendre la stabilité et la transformation de la société. Aperçu des chapitres : 1 : Justification du système - Découvrez comment les gens rationalisent et soutiennent les structures existantes. 2 : Préjugés - Découvrez comment la justification du système façonne les préjugés et la dynamique intergroupe. 3 : Homogénéité du groupe externe - Apprenez comment les stéréotypes renforcent les divisions sociales. 4 : Favoritisme au sein du groupe - Comprendre les préjugés qui soutiennent les hiérarchies de pouvoir. 5 : Orientation de la domination sociale - Explorez les préférences pour l'inégalité des groupes. 6 : Intra-groupe et hors groupe - Examinez la dynamique intergroupe et ses effets sociétaux. 7 : Théorie de la domination sociale - Analysez la relation des hiérarchies basées sur les groupes avec la justification du système. 8 : Théorie de l'identité sociale - Étudiez comment l'identité de groupe favorise le soutien aux systèmes existants. 9 : Théorie de l'auto-catégorisation - Étudiez comment l'identification de groupe façonne les attitudes sociales. 10 : Théorie de la menace intégrée - Comprenez comment les menaces perçues par les groupes extérieurs renforcent la justification du système. 11 : Mouton noir - Explorez comment les membres déviants du groupe renforcent les normes. 12 : Théorie de la distinction optimale - Étudiez l'équilibre entre l'inclusion et la distinction dans la justification du système. 13 : Stéréotype - Examinez comment les stéréotypes soutiennent le statu quo. 14 : Auto-stéréotype - Découvrez comment les stéréotypes intériorisés impactent les attitudes sociales. 15 : Narcissisme collectif - Apprenez comment la fierté de groupe renforce les structures existantes. 16 : Stéréotype implicite - Étudiez les biais inconscients qui soutiennent la justification du système. 17 : Anxiété intergroupe - Examinez comment l'anxiété renforce la justification du système. 18 : John Jost - Aperçu des contributions de Jost à la théorie de la justification du système. 19 : Métastéréotype - Découvrez comment les perceptions des stéréotypes de groupe affectent le soutien au système. 20 : Idéologies de la diversité - Analysez comment les points de vue sur la diversité impactent les systèmes sociétaux. 21 : Axes de subordination - Explorez les intersections de la subordination dans la justification du système. System Justification est un texte crucial pour les étudiants et les professionnels en sciences politiques, offrant une plongée en profondeur dans les forces psychologiques qui maintiennent la stabilité sociétale. |
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Plongez dans le patrimonialisme, une plongée en profondeur dans la gouvernance patrimoniale en science politique. Ce livre révèle comment la loyauté personnelle et les liens familiaux façonnent le pouvoir et la gouvernance, impactant les systèmes politiques et les structures étatiques. Ressource essentielle pour les professionnels, les étudiants et les passionnés, il offre une compréhension approfondie de l'autorité politique et de ses nombreuses variantes. Brèves aperçus des chapitres : 1 : Le patrimonialisme : explore comment le pouvoir politique est lié aux loyautés personnelles et aux liens familiaux. 2 : Le néopatrimonialisme : examine comment les États modernes mélangent les éléments patrimoniaux traditionnels. 3 : Classification tripartite de l'autorité : détaille les types d'autorité et leur influence sur les structures politiques. 4 : Autorité traditionnelle : discute du rôle de l'autorité traditionnelle dans le maintien du patrimonialisme. 5 : Politique (Aristote) : relie les théories politiques d'Aristote à la gouvernance patrimoniale. 6 : Première République brésilienne : analyse l'influence du patrimonialisme dans la Première République brésilienne. 7 : Kleptocratie : explore la manière dont la kleptocratie et le patrimonialisme se renforcent mutuellement. 8 : Sultanisme : examine les caractéristiques du sultanisme dans le cadre de la gouvernance patrimoniale. 9 : Autocratie tsariste : discute de l’autocratie tsariste en tant que modèle de patrimonialisme. 10 : Despotisme : explore la manière dont le despotisme reflète les principes patrimoniaux. 11 : Gouvernement : fournit un aperçu des structures gouvernementales en interaction avec le patrimonialisme. 12 : Monarchie : explore l’intersection entre la monarchie et le patrimonialisme. 13 : Oligarchie : examine la manière dont les oligarchies s’alignent sur la gouvernance patrimoniale. 14 : République : analyse la relation entre les républiques et les pratiques patrimoniales. 15 : Aristocratie : discute du reflet des valeurs patrimoniales dans les systèmes aristocratiques. 16 : Autocratie : explore la manière dont le régime autocratique incarne la gouvernance patrimoniale. 17 : Système politique : analyse la manière dont les différents systèmes politiques interagissent avec le patrimonialisme. 18 : Liste des formes de gouvernement : examine les formes de gouvernement qui présentent des traits patrimoniaux. 19 : Diarchie : discute des systèmes de double leadership avec des éléments patrimoniaux. 20 : Empereur de Russie : examine comment l'empereur russe a illustré le régime patrimonial. 21 : Conservatisme en Russie : explore le lien entre conservatisme et gouvernance patrimoniale en Russie. Le patrimonialisme offre des informations cruciales sur la relation entre la loyauté personnelle et le pouvoir politique. À travers des études de cas et des analyses, il met en lumière les mécanismes de gouvernance, ce qui en fait une ressource indispensable. |
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Explorez le monde complexe du néopatrimonialisme dans ce volume essentiel de « science politique ». Il se penche sur la fusion des pratiques patrimoniales traditionnelles avec la gouvernance moderne, soulignant leur rôle dans la formation de la stabilité politique et du développement dans le monde entier. Un livre incontournable pour les étudiants, les professionnels et les passionnés, ce livre offre des aperçus critiques sur les structures politiques contemporaines et leurs fondements historiques. Aperçu des chapitres : 1 : Néopatrimonialisme - Définit le néopatrimonialisme et son rôle dans les institutions politiques modernes. 2 : Patrimonialisme - Origines du patrimonialisme et son influence sur la gouvernance et la légitimité. 3 : Prébendalisme - Explore comment les titulaires de fonctions publiques exploitent les ressources de l'État à des fins personnelles. 4 : Crise de légitimation - Examine les crises de légitimité dans les régimes néopatrimoniaux. 5 : Autoritarisme - Discute de la relation du néopatrimonialisme avec l'autoritarisme. 6 : La corruption au Mexique - Analyse la corruption induite par le néopatrimonialisme au Mexique. 7 : La corruption au Cameroun - Plonge dans la corruption néopatrimonialiste au Cameroun. 8 : Ordre politique et déclin - Étudie le rôle du néopatrimonialisme dans la stabilité et le déclin politiques. 9 : Le recul démocratique - Évalue comment le néopatrimonialisme érode les institutions démocratiques. 10 : La démocratisation au Sénégal - Examine les défis de la démocratisation au sein du néopatrimonialisme au Sénégal. 11 : La dictature - Étudie le rôle du néopatrimonialisme dans le maintien des dictatures. 12 : L'État en faillite - Discute de la façon dont le néopatrimonialisme peut conduire à l'effondrement de l'État. 13 : La dictature militaire - Analyse le rôle du néopatrimonialisme dans les dictatures militaires. 14 : Démocratisation - Examine les tendances plus larges de la démocratisation influencées par le néopatrimonialisme. 15 : État fragile - Explore comment le néopatrimonialisme contribue à la fragilité de l'État. 16 : Colonialisme d'Europe occidentale - Examine comment le colonialisme a influencé le néopatrimonialisme. 17 : Développementalisme - Explore comment le néopatrimonialisme interagit avec les politiques de développement. 18 : Staffan I. Lindberg - Met en évidence le travail de Lindberg sur le développement démocratique. 19 : Thandika Mkandawire - Présente les idées de Mkandawire sur la politique africaine et le néopatrimonialisme. 20 : Démocratie en Afrique - Évalue les défis de la démocratie en Afrique dans le cadre du néopatrimonialisme. 21 : Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi - Discute du travail de Gyimah-Boadi sur la gouvernance en Afrique. Ce livre propose un guide complet pour comprendre le néopatrimonialisme et son impact considérable sur les systèmes politiques mondiaux. Il combine contexte historique et analyse contemporaine pour fournir aux lecteurs des informations précieuses sur la gouvernance, le développement et la démocratie, ce qui en fait un investissement intéressant pour ceux qui recherchent des connaissances en sciences politiques. |
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Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four different presidencies for three news outlets. But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise. Like many others in Washington, Garrett found himself having to unlearn many of his own settled notions about the nature and function of the presidency. He also had to separate the carnival-like noise of the Trump presidency from its underlying substance. For even in its first half, Trump’s tenure has been highly consequential. In Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride , Major Garrett provides what journalists are often said to do, but usually don’t: a true first draft of history. His goal was to sift through the mountains of distracting tweets and shrieking headlines in order to focus on the most significant moments of Trump’s young presidency, the ones that Garrett believes will have a lasting impact. The result is an authoritative, mature, and consistently entertaining account of one of the strangest eras in American political history. A consummate professional with unimpeachable integrity, remarkable storytelling skills, and a deep knowledge of his subject earned through decades of experience, Garrett brings to life the twists and turns of covering this White House and its unconventional occupant with wit, sagacity and style. Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride should place him securely in the first rank of Washington journalists. |
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AN INCISIVE "WHITE PAPER" ON THE UNITED STATES'S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps to secure peace there. He sees in that early diplomatic failure a pattern shaping the conflicts since then—and America's role in them. A century ago, there emerged two dominant views regarding the uses of America's newfound power. Woodrow Wilson urged America to promote national freedom and self-determination through the League of Nations—in stark contrast to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who had advocated a vigorous foreign policy based on national self-interest. Cohen argues that this running conflict has hobbled American dealings in the Middle East ever since. In concise, pointed chapters, he shows how different Middle East countries have struggled to define themselves in the face of America's stated idealism and its actual realpolitik. This conflict came to a head in the confused, clumsy Middle East policy of George W. Bush—but Cohen suggests the ways a greater awareness of our history in the region might enable our present leaders to act more sensibly. |
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize A New Yorker Best Book of the Year For the 75th anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today. George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel 1984 have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism. In Orwell’s Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell’s Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity. |
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation. Unit X was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate bringing state of the art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function almost as a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups rather than from so-called “primes”—behemoth companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing. Taking us inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers—and, also, overseas to Ukraine’s frontlines—Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape. In an era when America’s chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation, strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley was always advisable. Today, it is an urgent necessity. |
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape—and sometimes warp—our social and political landscape. The ultrarich hold more of America’s wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos’s incisive reportage yields an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions driving this new Gilded Age, in which superyachts, luxury bunkers, elite tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations bespeak staggering disparities of wealth and power. With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, this is a book about the indulgences, incentives, and psychological distortions that define our economic age. In each essay, Osnos delves into a world that is rarely visible, from the outrageous to the fabulous to the ridiculous: a private wealth manager who broke with members of an American dynasty and spilled their secrets; the pop stars who perform at lavish parties for thirteen-year-olds; the status anxieties that spill out of marinas in Monaco and Palm Beach like real-world episodes of Succession and The White Lotus ; the ethos behind the largest Ponzi scheme in Hollywood history; the confessions of disgraced titans in a “white-collar support group.” A celebrated political reporter, Osnos delves into the unprecedented Washington influence of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, drawing on in-depth interviews with Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires, about their power and the explosive backlash it stirs. Originally published in The New Yorker , these essays have been revised and expanded to deliver an unflinching portrait of raw ambition, unimaginable fortune, and the rise of America’s modern oligarchy. Osnos’s essays are a wake-up call—a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess, as the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives. Entertaining, unsettling, and eye-opening, The Haves and the Have-Yachts couldn’t be more relevant to today’s world. |
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Trump. The Alt-Right. The Rise of Populism. What in the world is going on? In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fact, our survival may depend on it. Drawing on both political science and psychology, Moscrop examines how our brains, our environment, the media, and institutions influence decision-making. Making good decisions is not impossible, Moscrop argues, but the psychological and political odds are sometimes stacked against us. In this readable and provocative investigation of our often-flawed decisions, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work together to set things right. |
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AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK 2024 Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years—including democracy , freedom and truth— and asks whether we can reclaim their value. As co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens , Carol Off spent a decade and a half talking to people in the news five nights a week. On top of her stellar writing and reporting career, those 25,000 interviews have given her a unique vantage point on the crucial subject at the heart of her new book—how, in these polarizing years, words that used to define civil society and social justice are being put to work for a completely different political agenda. Or they are being bleached of their meaning as the values they represent are mocked and distorted. As Off writes, “If our language doesn’t have a means to express an idea, then the idea itself is gone—even the range of thought is diminished.” And, as she argues, that’s a dangerous loss. In six, wide-ranging chapters, Off explores the mutating meanings and the changing political impact of her six chosen words—freedom, democracy, truth, woke, choice and taxes—unpacking the forces, from right and left, that have altered them beyond recognition. She also shows what happens when we lose our shared political vocabulary: we stop being able to hear each other, let alone speak with each other in meaningful ways. This means we stop being able to reckon with the complexity of the crises we face, leaving us prey to conspiracy theories, autocrats and the machinations of greed. At a Loss for Words is both an elegy and a call to arms. |
