Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (Easyread Large Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (Easyread Large Edition) write by Yuval Levin. This book was released on 2010. Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy (Easyread Large Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science in recent years have fallen into the familiar categories of America's culture wars. Imagining the Future explores the meaning of science and technology in American politics today. The science debates, Yuval Levin argues, expose the deepest strengths and greatest weaknesses of both the left and the right, and present serious challenges to American democratic self-government. What do arguments about embryos, climate, or the origins of man reveal about contemporary America? Why do issues involving science seem to divide us along the same fault lines as so many other issues in our political life? Is science morally neutral, or is it an endeavor filled with moral promise - and peril? Are American conservatives really waging war on science? Is the American left justified in calling itself the party of science? Most of the science debates, Levin concludes, are not about particular theories or facts or technologies. Rather, they come down to a profound dispute between liberals and conservatives about the right way to think about the future. Science is only one subject of this broader dispute; but today's science debates can illuminate the contours of our politics and clarify the rift at the heart of our polity.
Framing the future [electronic resource]
Framing the future [electronic resource] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Framing the future [electronic resource] write by Bernie Horn. This book was released on 2008. Framing the future [electronic resource] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polls consistently show that most Americans are progressives at heart. By margins of at least two to one, we favor affordable healthcare for all, even if it means raising taxes; want federal action to combat global warming; support stricter gun control; don’t want Roe vs. Wade overturned; and the list goes on. So why is it so hard for progressive candidates to win elections? Because, says Bernie Horn, most progressives don’t know how to explain their ideas in ways that resonate with “persuadables”—the significant slice of the electorate who don’t instantly identify as Democrats or Republicans. These are the voters who swing elections. There’s been a lot of theoretical discussion about framing lately, but Framing the Future isn’t theory—the concepts outlined have been used successfully by progressive candidates across the nation, even in such conservative bastions as Montana, Arizona, and Florida. Drawing on rigorous polling data and his own experience as a veteran political consultant, Horn explains how persuadable voters think about issues and make political decisions and why, as a result, the usual progressive approaches are practically designed to fail with them. He offers a crash course in the nuts and bolts of framing and shows how to use three bedrock American values—freedom, opportunity, and security—to frame progressive positions in a way that creates a consistent, unified political vision that will appeal to persuadable voters. He even offers advice on specific words and phrases to use when talking about a variety of issues and ideas.
The Blood of Government (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
The Blood of Government (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blood of Government (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) write by Paul Alexander Kramer. This book was released on 2006. The Blood of Government (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bittersweet Century
The Bittersweet Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bittersweet Century write by Paul N. Goldstene. This book was released on 1989. The Bittersweet Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Future Politics
Future Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Future Politics write by Jamie Susskind. This book was released on 2018-09-12. Future Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil society. In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms? Jamie Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a range of technologies - from artificial intelligence to virtual reality - will transform the way we live together. Calling for a fundamental change in the way we think about politics, he describes a world in which certain technologies and platforms, and those who control them, come to hold great power over us. Some will gather data about our lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as shameful, sinful, or wrong. Others will filter our perception of the world, choosing what we know, shaping what we think, affecting how we feel, and guiding how we act. Still others will force us to behave certain ways, like self-driving cars that refuse to drive over the speed limit. Those who control these technologies - usually big tech firms and the state - will increasingly control us. They will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what we may do and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will resolve vital questions of social justice, allocating social goods and sorting us into hierarchies of status and esteem. They will decide the future of democracy, causing it to flourish or decay. A groundbreaking work of political analysis, Future Politics challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, what it means for a political system to be just or democratic, and proposes ways in which we can - and must - regain control.
