This is a poignant story of a quarrel that tore a family apart, but there is a wider message here. The elephant in the room is a care industry that has less to do with providing care for society’s most vulnerable members and more to do with maximizing profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
Freeing Teresa is a true story about an activist who tries to stop her powerful siblings from putting their disabled sister into a nursing home. She fails. And then must rescue her sister.
Franke James immediately objected when she heard her siblings’ plan to put their youngest sister, Teresa Heartchild, into a nursing home. “What about Teresa’s human rights?” But Franke was told that Teresa, who has Down syndrome, had lost her right to decide. She had been declared “not capable” by a social worker. The other siblings, now acting as Teresa’s “guardians,” insisted they had all the decision-making power,…
More than sixty years on, given the number of mini-Eichmanns that have infested just about every institution of our society, this book remains as relevant as today's headlines.
'A profound and documented analysis ... Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences' Chicago Tribune
Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative - a meticulous and unflinching look at one…
A poignant meditation on one woman's journey through pandemic- and post-pandemic-America.
It's all here: the casual cruelty of the functionaries enforcing the ever-shifting melange of totally nonsensical pandemic rules and restrictions ("We're just following the CDC guidelines," they liked to say, echoing a famous phrase from a famous series of trials decades ago); the gleeful sadism of friends, family, and even co-religionists who were happy to cut her out of their lives for refusing to muzzle herself and get shot up with some criminal organization's experimental gene therapy; the cowardice of the men who messaged her, thanking her for her courage while refusing to do anything themselves; and the hollowness at the cores of the lives of the laptop class who make decisions for the rest of us whilst carefully shielding themselves from the consequences of those decisions.
From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history.
In this uncompromising investigation into today's most urgent issues, Naomi Wolf uses her own wildly politicized pilgrimage-from New York Times bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant to a journalist cast out from the elite political and social circles she once moved through-as a stunning narrative framework that is both chilling and incisive.
Wolf's sin? Doing the job that good journalists once…
They Told Us It Was Like Ebola: The Effect of Pandemic Restrictions on the Children of Ghana
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What is my book about?
The coronavirus pandemic served as the pretext for a massive assault on everything we need to function as a society of intelligent, self-governing men and women. Work, school, church, love, friendship, entrepreneurship, outdoor exercise, verve, spontaneity, joyous celebration, the human face -- all these were relentlessly demonized. In place, we were offered shaming, blaming, snitching, tattling, and a fear that pervaded every facet of our existence. Not surprisingly, all this fell hardest upon children, particularly children living in low-income countries.
This book puts a human face on the after-effects of lockdowns and school closures upon those least able to afford them.
