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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed By Jason Riley chats with Dr. Alvin

Jason Riley Click Here To Listen Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit [...]

By |August 1st, 2014|African Americans, Politics|Comments Off on Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed By Jason Riley chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Last Empire: The Final Days Of The Soviet Union By Serhii Plokhy chats with Dr. Alvin

Serhii Plokhy Click Here To Listen On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush’s speech and has persisted for decades—with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but [...]

By |July 31st, 2014|History, Politics|Comments Off on The Last Empire: The Final Days Of The Soviet Union By Serhii Plokhy chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Once And Future King: The Rise Of Crown Government In America By F.H. Buckley chats with Dr. Alvin

FH Buckley Click Here To Listen This remarkable book shatters just about every myth surrounding American government, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers, and offers the clearest warning about the alarming rise of one-man rule in the age of Obama. Most Americans believe that this country uniquely protects liberty, that it does so because of its Constitution, and that for this our thanks must go to the Founders, at their Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. F. H. Buckley’s book debunks all these myths. America isn’t the freest country around, according to the think tanks that study these things. And it’s not the Constitution that made it free, since parliamentary regimes are generally freer than presidential [...]

By |July 31st, 2014|History, Law, Politics|Comments Off on The Once And Future King: The Rise Of Crown Government In America By F.H. Buckley chats with Dr. Alvin
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Our Declaration: A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense Of Equality By Danielle Allen chats with Dr. Alvin

Danielle Allen Click Here To Listen In just 1,337 words, the Declaration of Independence altered the course of history. Written in 1776, it is the most profound document in the history of government since the Magna Carta, signed nearly 800 years ago in 1215. Yet despite its paramount importance, the Declaration, curiously, is rarely read from start to finish—much less understood. Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what it says, Danielle Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night students and University of Chicago undergraduates. Keenly aware that the Declaration is riddled [...]

By |July 31st, 2014|History, Law, Politics|Comments Off on Our Declaration: A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense Of Equality By Danielle Allen chats with Dr. Alvin
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Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding Of A Political Machine By Daniel Halper chats with Dr. Alvin

Daniel Halper Click Here To Listen How did Bill and Hillary Clinton plot a comeback from the depths of disgrace to the pinnacle of American politics and the ranks of the global elite?

By |July 28th, 2014|Biography, History, Politics|Comments Off on Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding Of A Political Machine By Daniel Halper chats with Dr. Alvin
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Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare Is Becoming Our Reality By Cheryl Chumley chats with Dr. Alvin

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By |July 28th, 2014|Law, Politics, Pop Culture, Public Affairs|Comments Off on Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare Is Becoming Our Reality By Cheryl Chumley chats with Dr. Alvin
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Rogue Elephant: Harnessing The Power Of India’s Unruly Democracy By Simon Denyer chats with Dr. Alvin

Simon Denyer Click Here To Listen Five years ago, India was an emerging world power being courted by the world’s most powerful political and business leaders, an upbeat story of unparalleled economic growth. Since then, it has failed to account for the human capital at the heart of its effort to modernize: more than one billion people clamoring for what has become known as the “Indian Dream”—an education, a career, and an opportunity to pull one’s family out of poverty and into prosperity. Today, India is suffering an immense crisis of confidence—crippling political corruption, politicians mired in the status quo, economic inequality, brutal violence against women, and rampant social injustice. Simon Denyer, former Indian bureau [...]

By |July 24th, 2014|Business, Politics|Comments Off on Rogue Elephant: Harnessing The Power Of India’s Unruly Democracy By Simon Denyer chats with Dr. Alvin
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir By Zelda la Grange chats with Dr. Alvin

Zelda la Grange Click Here To Listen   A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela’s side, having grown to respect and cherish the man she would come to call "Khulu," or “grandfather." Good Morning, Mr. Mandela tells the extraordinary story of how a young woman’s life, beliefs, prejudices—everything she once believed—were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy. It is the incredible journey [...]

By |July 24th, 2014|Biography, History, Politics|Comments Off on Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir By Zelda la Grange chats with Dr. Alvin
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Assault And Flattery: The Truth About The Left And Their War On Women By Katie Pavlich chats with Dr. Alvin

Katie Pavlich Click Here To Listen New York Times bestselling author and FOX News contributor Katie Pavlich exposes the truth behind the real war on women—the one being waged by Democrats. Assault and Flattery goes beyond the Democratic Party’s rhetoric and exposes its shocking and sustained assault on American women that has lasted for generations. And in some cases, the word “assault” is quite literal. Katie Pavlich thinks the Democrats have run the conversation for too long—and is out to debunk the sacred cows of the so-called Republican War on Women. In the vein of fellow female pugilists Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin, Assault and Flattery exposes the truth about the Democratic stance toward women [...]

By |July 23rd, 2014|History, Politics, Public Affairs|Comments Off on Assault And Flattery: The Truth About The Left And Their War On Women By Katie Pavlich chats with Dr. Alvin
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Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama’s War On Millennials, And One Woman’s Case For Hope By Katie Kieffer chats with Dr. Alvin

Katie Kieffer Click Here To Listen “Let me be clear.” It was his come-hither call, his winsome whistle, his lingual lure. Barack Obama employed this phrase to sell his lies as maxims and his ineptitude as expertise. From JFK to Bill Clinton, America has experienced charming and coy presidents. But the most charming and coy is Obama, who seduced a generation of 95 million young Americans he used for his own political gain. Katie Kieffer is a gutsy commentator who gives it back to Barack. She turns his words against him. She grabs the high bar of transparency that Obama set for himself and snaps it with her wit. In Let Me Be Clear, Kieffer [...]

By |July 22nd, 2014|African Americans, History, Politics, Pop Culture|Comments Off on Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama’s War On Millennials, And One Woman’s Case For Hope By Katie Kieffer chats with Dr. Alvin
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