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From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time
by Katherine Boo, author of the forthcoming Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (Random House, February 2012). Request an advanced reader’s copy, details below.* As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate … Continue reading
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A Debt Crisis…5,000 Years in the Making
by David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, 2011) Debt is all around us. Modern economies run on consumer debt; modern nation-states, on deficit financing; international relations turn on debt. What’s more, for the last three … Continue reading
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Third World America
by Arianna Huffington, author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway, 2011) As a young girl growing up in Greece, I remember walking to school in the city of … Continue reading
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Obama, Madoff and American Self-Esteem
by Dick Meyer, author of Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium (Three Rivers Press, 2009). Since publishing Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium, the single question I have been asked the most … Continue reading
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Do We Live in a Borderless World?
Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, delivered a fascinating talk at this past summer’s TED Conference. At the crux of his speech, and the book, is a rejection of the notion of … Continue reading
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