The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 3:00 PM on Sunday, March 21st, 2021 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Attack on the Capitol |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 3:00 PM on Sunday, January 24th, 2021 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 5:27 PM on Thursday, September 24th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Future of Journalism, Television |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Monday, June 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | National Defense, Policy Topics, Technology, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Hacking |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 9:00 AM on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Media & Culture, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | First Freedoms |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 8:00 AM on Monday, August 5th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, June 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Juan Cole's tome on the Prophet Muhummad. |
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| Published at: | 6:28 AM on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Books |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, April 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Book Reviews |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Nuclear Proliferation |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership, by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 AM on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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| Excerpt: | In the Mel Brooks parody “Space Balls”, the villainous character Darth Helmet brags to Lonestarr, the protagonist, that, “Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.” This trope appears in fiction often, and some writers rely on it almost entirely. The medievalist historian and culture critic Steven Atwell has observed that one of the central […] |
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| Published at: | 6:00 AM on Sunday, January 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Other Tags: | Book Reviews |
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| Excerpt: | This is a good book in all the ways a history book can be good. You should buy it. You should read it. You should gift it to your friends and family, and stuff extra copies in Tiny Libraries you come across. |
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| Published at: | 9:04 AM on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Book Reviews |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of "Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and the Roadmap to Change" by Hilarie T. Gamm. |
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| Published at: | 3:30 PM on Sunday, November 25th, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Human Rights |
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