Nationalism

Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario....

In this concluding volume of the Savarkar series, exploring a vast range of original archival documents from across India and outside it, in English and several Indian languages, historian Vikram Sampath brings to light the life and works of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar....

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the 20th century....

Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it.

This collection is an attempt to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Many of the concerns that drive the Indian Right are located in the country's nationalist culture....

The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture.

American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, in particular to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich....

In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon....

A powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners....

As a young man, Narendra Modi had got into the habit of writing a letter to the Mother Goddess, whom he addressed as jagat janani, every night before going to bed. The topics were varied: there were seething sorrows, fleeting joys, lingering memories....

Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture....

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism....

A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering....

From an award-winning historian and regular Fox contributor, the true story of how Donald Trump has become one of the most successful presidents in history—and why America needs him now more than ever....

Wie fühlt es sich an, tagtäglich als "Bedrohung" wahrgenommen zu werden? Wie viel Vertrauen besteht nach dem NSU-Skandal noch in...

In this sweeping work of history, Tara Zahra examines how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century....

One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart....

The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins....

For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions....

A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics.

In Why Nationalism, Yael (Yuli) Tamir explains why it is more important than ever for the Left to recognize these qualities of nationalism, to reclaim it from right-wing extremists, and to redirect its power to progressive ends....

The sensational inside story of Boris Johnson's last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall....

The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles and documents examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about US involvement in the Vietnam War....

Americans are shocked by ongoing reports chronicling growing chaos in Europe....

Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise of national populism, this lucid and deeply researched audiobook is a vital guide to our transformed political landscape....

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's death, we find ourselves enmeshed in an era of political division and cynicism, where politicians talk past one another and the spirit of "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country" is less visible than it should be. We seem to have forgotten that we're all on the same team. Fortunately, Scott D. Reich has given us The Power of Citizenship, a timely book to bring us back on track.

I tragici capricci della storia rendono, questo, un libro singolare. Ancora una volta Bruno Vespa intreccia presente e passato, narrato però in presa diretta, come fosse attualità. Assistiamo così alla lentissima costruzione di un idillio che avrebbe portato l'Europa alla catastrofe e, subito dopo, osserviamo il mondo d'oggi, che segue con il fiato sospeso le due guerre in atto (Ucraina e Medio Oriente) sperando che prevalga il buonsenso.

Poetin is een diepgaand, persoonlijk relaas over het leven van de president, waarvoor de auteurs zes jaar lang zorgvuldig onderzoek hebben verricht. Om informatie te verzamelen trok Chris Hutchins naar Rusland en praatte er met iedereen die Poetin heeft gekend vóór zijn snelle opmars in de politiek, van mensen die hem meemaakten als kind en tiener tot kennissen uit de tijd dat hij een jongegeheim agent was.

For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.

Creer que una determinada comunidad es una 'nación'—afirma el autor de este ensayo—tiene que ver más con la fe que con la razón; es una creencia individual que puede ser compartida con otros y que está más cerca del pensamiento religioso que del científico, de ahí la dificultad de intentar rebatirla racionalmente. Roberto Augusto, que rechaza la doctrina nacionalista y también su interpretación de la idea de nación, piensa que "el futuro del nacionalismo es un proceso lento, casi imperceptible, de debilitamiento y decadencia".