Reads tagged with “politics”

How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872

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The Avenging Heroes Among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create

“The powerful fear art, whatever its form… because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us… becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring.”

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The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

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Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious Root of Resisting Women Leaders

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Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives

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Something in You Hungers for Clarity: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Writing and the Power of Words to Remake the World

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on Redeeming Humanity

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Octavia Butler (and Whitman’s Ghost) on America

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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity

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What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness

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Reads tagged with “politics”

“The powerful fear art, whatever its form… because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us… becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring.”

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

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