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Animals compete for power in their herds and packs and troops, and we humans have inherited the brain structures that motivate this. Nice people don't acknowledge the natural urge for social dominance, but it's harder to manage when you ignore it. The mammalian limbic system releases a good-feeling chemical when you gain social power, and a bad-feeling chemical when you see a threat to your social position. This is why we all have strong feelings about social status, despite our best intentions.

What happens when hate and misinformation start to shape the beliefs of voters and the policies of governments? Can our democracy survive if each political partys base is driven by an alternative view of reality? This scenario is playing out before our eyes. Most of us know that the Canadian...

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical, and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century. 'At once searing, loving and rousing, this is an acrobatic feat of political leadership from a generational talent' Naomi Klein 'One of the...