Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783030074364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 255 str.

Lawrence Davidson

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Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER 1: PROLOGUE: ON THE ART OF ANALYSIS

 

CHAPTER 2: SOME CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

 

 CONTEXTUALIZING CHAPTER ONE

 

ANALYSIS ONE: THE ROLE OF THE  INTELLECTUAL

 

ANALYSIS TWO: NATIONALISM VS. CAPITALISM

 

 ANALYSIS THREE: THE MIND OF THE POOR

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: FROM CHARITY TO MAYHEM

 

 ANALYSIS FIVE: CONTEXTUALIZING SEXUAL HARRASSMENT

 

ANALYSIS SIX: FREE CHOICE VS. MEDIA DETERMINISM

 

CHAPTER 3: THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

 

CONTEXTUALIZING  CHAPTER TWO

 

ANALYSIS ONE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

 

ANALYSIS TWO: WHY WE NEED THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

 

 ANALYSIS THREE: INTERNATIONAL LAW VS. U.S. DOMESTIC PRACTICE

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: TRUMP, JERUSALEM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

 CHAPTER 4: THE UNITED STATES

 

SECTION ONE - STRUCTURAL SHORTCOMINGS

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION ONE

 

ANALYSIS ONE: THE STRUCTURAL PROBLEM WITH LOBBIES

 

ANALYSIS TWO: LOBBY, LOBBIFICATION, LOBBIFIED

 

ANALYSIS THREE: DEMOCRACY TAKES A HIT

 

SECTION TWO - OTHER DOMESTIC POLITICAL PROBLEMS

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION TWO

 

ANALYSIS ONE: A SOBER LOOK AT U.S. DEMOCRACY

 

ANALYSIS TWO: TOLERANCE AS A PREREQUISITE FOR CIVILIZATION

 

ANALYSIS THREE: THERE IS NOTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT IGNORANCE

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: FREEDOM AND HIGH ANXIETY

 

ANALYSIS FIVE: IMMIGRANT IRONY

 

ANALYSIS SIX: FREE SPEECH OR BRIBERY?

 

ANALYSIS SEVEN: JUSTICE CORRUPTED

 

ANALYSIS EIGHT: A FUTURE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

 

SECTION THREE - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION THREE

 

ANALYSIS ONE: AMERICAN GONE STUPID OVER IRAN

 

ANALYSIS TWO: THE STATE DEPARTMENT GOES BAD

 

ANALYSIS THREE: CUSTOMIZING TRUTH

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: ENDLESS WAR

 

SECTION FOUR -THE ATTACKS ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2001   

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION FOUR

 

ANALYSIS ONE: IGNORANCE AND 9/11

 

ANALYSIS TWO: THE SAUDI ROLE ON SEPTEMBER 11

       

ANALYSIS THREE: WILL THERE BE MORE 9/11s?

 

CHAPTER 5: ON TRUMP, GUNS AND TORTURE

               

SECTION ONE - THE TRUMP PHENOMENON

               

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION ONE

 

ANALYSIS ONE: HOW ORIGINAL IS DONALD TRUMP?

 

ANALYSIS TWO: DONALD TRUMP’S AMERICA

 

ANALYSIS THREE: CRUELTY AS A CAMPAIGN COME-ON

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: THE WHITE HOUSE- MERCENARY CONNECTION

       

ANALYSIS FIVE: DONALD TRUMP’S BEHAVIORAL LEGACY

 

SECTION TWO - THE GUN CULTURE

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION TWO

 

ANALYSIS ONE: AN AMERICAN MOTTO: FREE, ARMED AND STUPID

 

ANALYSIS TWO: THE OPPORTUNIST AND THE FANATICS

 

ANALYSIS THREE: WAR CULTURE AND GUN CULTURE: THEY’RE RELATED

 

SECTION THREE - ON TORTURE, TERROR AND ABUSE

 

CONTEXTUALIZING SECTION THREE

 

ON TORTURE

 

ANALYSIS ONE: THE FORGOTTEN FUTILITY OF TOR TURE ON TERRORISM

 

ANALYSIS TWO: TERRORISM AND SOME HARD TRUTHS

 

ANALYSIS THREE: DOMESTIC TERRORISM   AMERICAN STYLE ON INSTITUTIONALIZED ABUSE

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: WAR AND INSTITUTIONALIZING ABUSE

 

CHAPTER 6: ISRAEL, ZIONISM AND THE JEWS

 

CONTEXTUALIZING CHAPTER FIVE

 

SECTION ONE - ISRAEL

 

ANALYSIS ONE: ISRAEL: LEGITIMACY AND         BEHAVIOR

 

ANALYSIS TWO: WHY THE ISRAELIS ARE RECEPTIVELY VIOLENT

 

ANALYSIS THREE: THE PEACE PROCESS HUSTLE

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: POLITICIZING ANTI-SEMITISM

 

SECTION TWO - ZIONISM

 

ANALYSIS FIVE: THE ZIONIST SCENARIO: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE

 

ANALYSIS SIX: ZIONISM GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE

 

ANALYSIS SEVEN: GENOCIDAL YEARNINGS

 

ANALYSIS EIGHT: CRIMINALIZING CRITICISM: A ZIONIST PROJECT

 

ANALYSIS NINE: WHOSE ACADEMIC FREEDOM ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

 

ANALYSIS TEN: THE LIBERAL ZIONIST DILEMMA

 

SECTION THREE - THE JEWS

 

ANALYSIS ELEVEN: ISRAEL DIVIDES THE JEWS

 

ANALYSIS TWELVE: BUT IS IT GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

 

ANALYSIS THIRTEEN: GETTING PAST THE ISSUE OF BEING JEWISH

 

CHAPTER 7: VILLAINS AND HEROES

 

CONTEXTUALIZING CHAPTER SIX

 

INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS: GETTING RID OF BAD EXAMPLES

 

SECTION ONE - VILLAINS

 

ANALYSIS ONE: THE GRIEVOUS RETURN OF HENRY KISSINGER

 

ANALYSIS TWO: JOHN BOLTON’S LOVE OF BOMBS

 

ANALYSIS THREE: DAVID HOROWITZ AND AN ACT OF SLANDER

 

ANALYSIS FOUR: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU’S IDEOLOGICALLY DICTATED WORLDVIEW

 

ANALYSIS FIVE: DONALD TRUMP’S EVOLVING MASS MOVEMENT

 

SECTION TWO - HEROES

 

ANALYSIS SIX: THE WHISTLE BLOWER AS HERO

 

ANALYSIS SEVEN: CRIMINALIZING THE TRUTH TELLERS

 

ANALYSIS EIGHT: IN PRAISE OF RICHARD FALK

 

ANALYSIS NINE: HANEEN ZOABI: ANOTHER PERSECUTED TRUTH-TELLER

 

ANALYSIS TEN: IN DEFENSE OF AMIRA HASS

 

CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSION

 

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER?

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Lawrence Davidson is Professor Emeritus of History at West Chester University, USA. He is the author of five academic titles, most recently Islamic Fundamentalism (2013) and Cultural Genocide (2012). 

Blurb

In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for the first time, these essays are collected together to form a coherent, punchy look at American Politics in 2018. Contextualized by a new prologue and new conclusion, as well as updated with new material throughout, these essays provide a cogent demonstration of the power of analytical thinking to create clear and understandable descriptions of issues that impact us all, but are most often obfuscated by propaganda, lying by omission, or other forms of distortion. For those who encounter this work, it is hoped that they will come away with a clearer, if not happier, idea of what sort of world we are all living in.