Books

Grocery ambitions, opioid Ohio and the Maryjane Report + this day in history w/Hinckley insanity and our song of the day by Iron & Wine on your Morning Monarchy for June 21, 2017.

Amazon has opened seven physical bookstores across the United States, with another half dozen in the works. When I found out one had just opened up near where I was staying in New York City, of course I had to check it out.

What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe’s hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.

Rogue cults, Muchkin molesters and burn after reading + this day in history w/Hands Across America and our song of the day by She-Devils on your Morning Monarchy for May 25, 2017.

By now, everyone is familiar with Pixar Animation Studios. Their endless streak of #1, globally popular films have provided audiences with highly creative entertainment for over 20 years.

PAUL TYSON 11 May 2017  (Click here for the openDemocracy.net site)

A lot, maybe the future of Europe, depends on how you read the opening conversation with Larry Summers in ‘one of the greatest political memoirs of all time.’ Theological Review.

It first appeared in 1943 as the book that went against everything that the politics of the time were telling people to believe. We had been through more than a decade of the planning state, with government robbing people in order to help them. This was the period of history that prepared the way for the predatory politics that define daily life today. The experience of the New Deal prepared the way for wartime planning in ways that people today do not understand. But Paterson did.
 

Economists from the Austrian School have long argued that the free-market mindset traces its origins back to the early modern period, especially the ideas of the neo-scholastic thinkers of 16th and 17th century Spain, known as the School of Salamanca. Miguel de Cervantes was familiar with the School, and incorporated five core free-market ideas into his book, the world's first modern novel: Don Quijote.

In order to make the deadliest ideology of the 20th century palatable to young Americans, Communism for Kids is coming to a bookstore near you. This newly released book from MIT Press “proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.”

When UC Berkley's 20,000 free world-class lectures were threatened with elimination at the hands of the state, an enterprising blockchain-based company, LBRY, stepped in and saved the day.