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The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

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I Am America (and So Can You!)
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Adventure Divas
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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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by Ravi Batra

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by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


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As an academic progressive with some moderate leanings, I found this interesting. I might point out there are multiple types of "academic progressives":

  1. Foreign policy and economic progressives (people like myself);
  2. Textual progressives (the people who inhabit English Departments and think re-engineering the language will change the world and that Das Kapital's deeper implications have nothing to do with falling rates of profit and capital accumulation but is instead a very long treatise on literary criticism).

The only parts of the above that seriously concern me are:

  1. The FISA issue;
  2. Foreign policy overall.

The ones that concern me a little are:

  1. His opennness to vouchers-but then again, he didn't say he would support them-he just said he would keep an "open mind";
  2. Faith based initiatives which doesn't bother me very much as long as there are safeguards against proselytizing and it is open to any bona fide faith based group. I rather suspect that as soon as the local Wiccan chapter can get funds to help finance a battered woman's shelter, evangelical support for it will wither;

The one that I sort of understand is:

1. The death penalty for child rapists-on an emotional level its hard to oppose it. I have to remind myself of a lot of things to understand why its a bad idea. And besides, its kind of a throw away at this point.

I'm not remotely bothered-in fact to be frank I applaud:

  1. The Supreme Court's recent decision on gun control;
  2. I have never been a big fan of affirmative action at all. I've simply never thought it was worth my time and energy to worry excessively about it.
by Citizen Rat on Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 at 05:00:06 PM EST
I think you well expressed the typical reaction of an academic progressive to this.  

FISA, plus pandering to AIPAC and tough-talk on Iran, etc., are major issues.  

Gun control and affirmative action are not.  

Faith-based stuff is a concern, makes you uncomfortable.  But not a deal breaker.  

That's where most of the blogosphere is coming down on these issues.  

Urban progressives are more concerned about affirmative action and gun control.  

What's being missed is how much of this 'centrism' that makes academic progressives uneasy is actually quite popular with urban progressives, and is not a lurch to the right but a bridge.  

by BooMan on Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 at 05:12:41 PM EST
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