“ I’ll give you the biggest sandwiches, Tracy. I’m definitely going to have George get someone else. There’s something wrong with her, Sue Ellen Brannigan decided. She would never be able to get out in time. But then they would want to check her over and keep her there. “I-” Are you all right? You look pale.” That was it. They should be gone by then.” So would the truck. “What- what time do you want me to bring Amy back?” “Oh, about three o’clock. Amy enjoys picnics, don’t you, darling?” “I love picnics.” She looked at Tracy pleadingly. You can go for a nice walk in the meadow and have it there. She’ll be hungry.” “ I’ve had the cook prepare a picnic lunch for both of you. She’ll call the warden, and I’ll be sent back to my cell. “What do you mean you can’t do that?” Tracy saw the anger in her face and she thought, l mustn’t upset her. Brannigan.” Sue Ellen Brannigan stiffened.
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The explosion of mobile phone usage and Internet access has helped create a growing consumer class, as well as an increase in local entrepreneurship. Since the Cold War, for example, a large number of countries have embraced democratic systems, along with the putative increase in government accountability that comes with that. Indeed, there have been numerous positive developments in various African countries that have led to unprecedented economic growth that outpaces much of the rest of the world. The term "Africa Rising," for example, has been used to describe the boom in economic development throughout sub-Saharan Africa since 2000. Burgis refutes some of the more optimistic narratives about the future of Africa in the globalized era. These deals, Burgis asserts, perpetuate massive income inequality by allowing domestic and foreign elites to hoard the increasing wealth being created in resource-rich African nations during the era of modern globalization. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers, and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth (2015) by the British author and journalist Tom Burgis highlights a number of shady deals made over the past two decades between multinational corporations and African political leaders. “One of the obstacles to understanding neoliberals on their own terms has been an excessive reliance on a set of ideas borrowed from the Hungarian economic historian Karl Polanyi,” he writes.Īlthough Slobodian quotes one scholar’s estimation of Polanyi’s renown as second only to Foucault “among social scientists today,” that may be stretching things. Slobodian’s book is a revisionist account of neoliberalism in a number of different ways, but early on he identifies one particular reason why critics of neoliberalism have routinely misunderstood its basic principles. 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At turning points throughout history, as we aspired toward great things, we also witnessed the authoritarian impulse drive policy and win public support. The United States of Lyncherdom, as Mark Twain labeled America. Trumpism isn’t new, but rooted in our refusal to come to terms with this historical reality. MacWilliams' On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through American history and compete with our egalitarian, democratic aspirations. "Īn expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. "The twelve lessons in On Fascism draws from American history and brilliantly complement those of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. 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Additionally, the novel's desert canyon setting was inspired by her childhood experiences of growing up in southern Utah. While Cassia is important and still the main character, she considers Crossed Ky's book. Reception to the novel was mixed to positive and the novel reached The New York Times bestseller's list for children's chapter books.Īccording to Condie, she decided right away that the novel needed to be told from the perspectives of Ky and Cassia. The plot follows Cassia and Ky's respective journeys to find each other again in the outer provinces as they begin to learn of a growing rebellion against the Society. Told in the alternating perspectives of Cassia and Ky, the novel is largely set in a desert canyon which was inspired by Condie's experience growing up in southern Utah. It is the sequel to Matched and the second book in the Matched trilogy, which concludes with Reached. 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