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This audiobook examines a common liberal misconception around the idea of economic inequality.

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

This book examines the social and political forces that led to the election of Barack Obama to become the president of the United States in 2008, and the policies and opposition to his subsequent administration that led to the unleashing of populist forces that led to the election of Donald J. Trump as president in 2016. 

This book shows how love can remake American society.

This book investigates how and why moderate elements of the American Democratic Party have prevented America from solving some of its most important economic and social problems. 

This book is an investigation of the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 1969. 

This book discusses the French philosopher Albert Camus' essay "The Rebel", and what it has to say about contemporary politics. 

This book examines how the development of the European social welfare state in the post-World War II period has proposed a threat to the American economic and social system. 

This book argues that America has not responded effectively to the coronavirus pandemic because of entrenched American cultural values.

This book explores the notion that America had a chance to further the development of its welfare state in the 1972 American presidential election with George McGovern, but would eventually settle for a complete denial of this ambition with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

There is talk in the Western world about a new relevance of Marxist theory. In this book, I show how Marxism can never be an adequate replacement for the admittedly flawed capitalist economic system.

This book investigates the possibility that world political turmoil may have led nature to create the coronavirus as a way of restoring natural balance to the human world. 

This book examines how the human mind has constructed Western philosophy. What would a new history of Western philosophy be? Aren't there so many studies like that on the market already? Most histories of Western philosophy go in chronological order from the pre-Socratics up to the modern philosophers. But why does it have to be that way?

This book is an investigation into the current debate about income inequality among intellectuals. I intend to show that this focus is misplaced and should be centered on the issue of assisting the most unfortunate in a given society.

This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states. 

This audiobook is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.

This audiobook examines the causes for the rise of the recent conservative movement in American history.

This book examines the idea whether the progressive movement in America led by Bernie Sanders will change American society.

This audiobook is an investigation about the idea that Thanksgiving is a dark holiday and what that says about American culture.

This book examines the idea that America needs much improvement in applying liberal ideas in its culture.