Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Reagan administration will be the conservative judges it has placed on the Supreme Court and other federal courts. In this provocative essay, Harvard political scientist Stephen Macedo warns that the New Right's "Jurisprudence of Original Intent" seems to put untrammeled majoritarianism in place of constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Macedo accuses the New Right of "moral skepticism in the service of majoritarianism"...

This book is a slightly revised version of the Thesis titled 'Post Globalisation Politics of Language in Maharashtra' submitted to the University of Mumbai for Ph.D. The book details the trajectory of Language policy and Politics in Unified Maharashtra. It begins with introducing the concepts of language policy, politics and provides details of the scholarly works on language politics in India. It then focuses on the struggle for the creation of Unified...

In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in Canada. Our richest have wealth counted in the billions while the poorest sleep in downtown doorways, or have to choose between medicine and food. Those...

"La paz consagrada en la Constitución Política de 1991 como deber y derecho, ha sido un compromiso asumido e integrado en los Planes Globales de Desarrollo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia que, desde el 2012, ha establecido ejes orientados a apoyar el actual proceso de paz a partir del reconocimiento que se requiere para una solución definitiva al conflicto armado interno. Desde la academia, este compromiso se ha extendido al análisis y...

America's Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America's future in space and how different visions would require changes to America's current approach to space development and exploration. Since the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s, the U.S. civil space program has accomplished...

"This Element is an excerpt from AIDS: Taking a long-term view (ISBN: 9780132172592) by the aids2031 Consortium"--Resource description page.

The immigration issue affects virtually every American, directly or indirectly, often in deeply personal ways. This guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. The three options presented here reflect different ways of understanding what is at stake and force us to think about what matters most to us when we face difficult problems that involve all of us and that do not have perfect solutions. The...

El propósito de este libro es aportar elementos para entender las cuestiones que hoy representan los procesos migratorios de y en MÉxico, y se enfoca tanto en la dimensiÓn estructural como en las repercusiones psicosociales de la experiencia de los migrantes: de los que retornan a sus lugares de origen y de aquellos deportados a nuestro paÍs desde el norte, asÍ como de quienes llegan desde el sur y tienen necesidad de solicitar refugio.

Terrorizing Ourselves dismantles much of the flawed thinking that dominates U.S. counterterrorism policy today and lays out alternative approaches informed by experience, deliberation, and the well-established norms of a free society. Leading experts in the field contributed to this important new book, which shows that politicians use fear for political purposes and spend vast sums of money on dubious security measures. These experts explore the nature...

America's immigration crisis is out of control! Unregulated immigration has led to an increase in crime, a loss of working class jobs, an inflated welfare state, and an elevated amount of terror threats on our home territory. The clash of differing emotions, facts, and opinions reveal that this issue is not simply a nationwide disagreement; it is an American crisis. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, authors John Zmirak and Al...