Read NPI’s review of Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Not Taking Over Our Country by Sumbul Ali-Karamali.
Tag: Books
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Book Review: “We See It All” is a good study of current local police capabilities
Read David A. Johnson’s review of Economist journalist Jon Fasman’s new book exploring elements of technology and practices in modern policing in the United States.
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Book Review: John Boehner laments his party’s mutation into a cult in new memoir
Read Joel Connelly’s review of ex-Speaker John Boehner’s memoir of his time in U.S. politics. Boehner resigned from the House in October of 2015, five years after assuming power.
Posted inViews & Reviews
Book Review: In the U.S., the desire to “Break It Up” is more American than America itself
Read NPI’s review of Break It Up by Richard Kreitner (Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union).
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Book Review: When “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear”, nobody wins (except the reader)
Read NPIs review of Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s book about the New Hampshire town that libertarians tried to turn into a utopia.
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Book Review: Brian Stelter’s “Hoax” offers a fresh look at how Fox corrodes democracy
Read Joel Connelly’s review of a 2020 book examining the destructive influence of Rupert Murdoch’s right wing cable channel, in the tradition of Outfoxed, The Republican Noise Machine, and Murdoch’s World.
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Book Review: “Dawn of the Code War” looks at the modern age’s cyber battlegrounds
Former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin and journalist Garrett Graff’s book focuses on the new challenges posed by cyber threats to national security.
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Book Review: The Case Against Free Speech centers actual power over abstract principle
Read NPI Literary Advocate David Johnson’s review of P.E. Moskowitz’s provocatively titled book about the First Amendment, fascism, and the future of dissent.
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Book Review: Juan Williams’ book reminds us there’s more to lose from the Trump regime
Read NPI’s review of “What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? Trump’s War on Civil Rights,” by Fox personality Juan Williams.
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Book Review: We can still make “A Bright Future” with nuclear energy
Read NPI’s review of A Bright Future, a book that discusses how some countries have tackled the climate crisis and how the rest could follow.
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Book Review: “A Prophet of Peace” and Juan Cole’s New Historicism
Read NPI’s review of Juan Cole’s tome on the Prophet Muhummad.
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Book Review: “Talk on the Wild Side” by Lane Greene shows how language is power
Lane Greene’s Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed came across, in its initial reading, as a scattershot collection of topics relating vaguely to the way the pronunciations, words, and grammars of languages will change with time so long as those languages continue to live and have people speak them. What makes the […]
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Book Review: Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
Read NPI’s review of Peter Watson’s Fallout, which argues that “the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between World War II allies”.
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Book Review: “The Empty Throne” makes a better argument for not having one
Read NPI’s review of The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership, by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay.