Howard Zinn on War includes reflections on the Vietnam War, World War II, the recent wars against Iraq and in Kosovo, and on the meaning of war generally...more

Making Democracy Work...more

Australia has traditionally lacked a strong ërightsí culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The...more

In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship. Scholars who study citizenship routinely ...more

John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has ...more

In this collection of all new essays, Noam Chomsky examines the dramatic shift away from a pluralist, participatory ideal of politics and towards an authoritarian profit-...more

Beginning with his criticism of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has become better known for his radical politics than for his theories of language. ...more

In an emergency, statesmen concentrate power and suspend citizensí rights. These emergency powers are ubiquitous in the crisis government of liberal democracies, but their ...more

The Playing Fields of eton: equality and excellence in Modern Meritocracy...more