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| | A "compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions" (The New York Times Book Review) due to the underlying economics of publishing-from famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, s...
| | theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)
| | www.atlassociety.org
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| | Individualism seemed to have few accomplishments and fewer adherents, back when I first encountered it, some forty-five years ago...
| | booksonthewall.com
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| No other civilization in the world has endured as long as the Chinese. Despite wars, famines, revolutions, and imperialism, the Chinese have been able to retain their language and cultural heritage for some 5,000 years. With China's rapid economic development in the 21st century, it's clear that this nation will be a major player in global politics for the years to come. And one of the best ways for outsiders to dip into the mind of the Middle Kingdom is to take a look at the nation's best writers. Of course, it'd take a few pretty thick books just to ...