Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope - When Phineas's wife dies, he becomes discontented with his life as a minor government functionary and longs to return to his exciting former career of politics in London. His luck is as strong as ever; his party is seeking to return to power with fresh blood, and with its support, he is once again elected to Parliament. However, he makes a bitter enemy within his own party, Mr. Bonteen. When Bonteen is murdered, there...

En correspondencia con su programa, los gobiernos liberales de la década de 1850 a 1860 se emprendieron dos ciclos de reformas que le dieron una primer ciclo reformista, que corresponde al legado del presidente liberal caucano José Hilario López (1849 - 1853), se caracterizó por impulsar transformaciones de corte radical en el comercio y las finanzas públicas del estado, así como la consagración de las libertades individuales y el voto universal...

Las democracias liberales comparten la entronización de la libertad de expresión como valor fundamental del sistema político. Sin embargo, no todos los que afirman este valor coinciden en su contenido y alcances. Nuestra comprensión acerca del significado de la libertad de expresión y las responsabilidades estatales necesarias para asegurar su goce varía en función de la teoría que justifique y sustente esa libertad. En el debate jurídico...

A lively history of American libertarianism and how the ideology was corrupted by delusion and greed. In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick's house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. When Glenn Beck talked about the fire on his radio show, he thought...

A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...

If you believe that individual freedom and liberty must be held sacrosanct, Michael Schulte's sociocultural poetic analysis is the book for you. His favorite poem describes the thought process he follows when contemplating trends in Western culture: Seek truth with reason your guide Your conscience for no allegiance set aside After two decades in academia, Michael Schulte gathered first-hand experience with cancel culture, trigger warnings,...

La irrupción, poco explicada pero totalmente explicable, de la ultraderecha en el panorama político occidental tiene un poco desconcertado al conjunto de la ciudadanía democrática. No se trata del fascismo ni del nacionalsocialismo de toda la vida, ni siquiera del franquismo. No se trata de nostálgicos –aunque los haya entre sus militantes–, algo que facilita su penetración en colectivos jóvenes necesitados de un líder que coincida con...

Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls "libertarian exit." Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean,...

This book clarifies one's thinking by defining generally accepted definitions for liberal, libertarian, and conservative. This establishes a linear scale. In order to do so, the author went to experts in each area and used their definitions. He found that some definitions have changed with time. Specifically, a Liberal in the 18th century is what we would call a Libertarian in the 20th and 21st century. The socialist of the 19th century is what is...

La extrema derecha quiere cambiar el mundo. Y mucha gente está convencida de que eso es lo que el mundo necesita. Con combinaciones de nacionalismo, posiciones antiestado, xenofobia, racismo y misoginia, pero también guiños a la comunidad LGBTI y consignas ecologistas, con un aura de incorrección y novedad que atrae a los jóvenes, las llamadas "derechas alternativas" están protagonizando una revolución en la política occidental: orgullosas,...