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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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How to Fix Democracy with Dana Milbank
Season 4, Episode 9 of How to Fix Democracy features Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, who joins host Andrew Keen to discuss the new voices of the Republican Party, how they came to power, and whether or not the party will be forced to change.
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How to Fix Democracy with Darrell M. West
Season 4, Episode 8 of How to Fix Democracy features Darrell M. West, the Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He joins host Andrew Keen to discuss how Trumpism came to be, and how it is influencing the structures of American democracy.
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How to Fix Democracy with Dahlia Lithwick
Season 4, Episode 7 of How To Fix Democracy titled "The legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court" features Dahlia Lithwick, lawyer and author of "Lady Justice," who with host Andrew Keen discusses the recent sharp decline of popularity of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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How to Fix Democracy with Katherine Stewart
Season 4 Episode 6 titled "Religion and American Conservatism" features Katherine Stewart, the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, who has spent her career reporting on the dwindling separation between church and state in the United States.
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How to Fix Democracy with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Season 4 Episode 5 titled "The Health of American Democracy" features Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL), and author of "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right," who has focused her research on these issues and how our society can overcome them.
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How to Fix Democracy with Andrea Young
Season 4 Episode 4 titled "Racial Injustice & Voting Rights in the United States" features Andrea Young, the executive director of the ACLU in Georgia and a lifelong advocate of voting and civil rights in the United States.
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Carol Anderson on the Second Amendment and Racism in the USA
Carol Anderson discusses the Second Amendment and Racism in the USA at the John Adams Institute.
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How to Fix Democracy with Mónica Guzmán
Season 4 Episode 3 titled "Bridging the Partisan Divide" features Mónica Guzmán, the author of "I Never Thought of it That Way," who joined host Andrew Keen to discuss the dire state of the political landscape in the United States.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.