The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politicsby Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 … Continue reading The Dictator’s Handbook
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Demonic Foes
Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormalby Richard Gallagher The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his twenty-five-year career. Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical … Continue reading Demonic Foes
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Daylight Robbery
Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Futureby Dominic Frisby Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern … Continue reading Daylight Robbery
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Dark Towers
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destructionby David Enrich On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more … Continue reading Dark Towers
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Conspirators’ Hierarchy
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300by John Coleman Can you imagine an all powerful group, that knows no national boundaries, above the laws of all countries, one that controls every aspect of politics, religion, commerce and industry, banking, insurance, mining, the drug trade, the petroleum industry, a group answerable to no one but … Continue reading Conspirators’ Hierarchy
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Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative
Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternativeby Zack Rofer In non-technical terms, the libertarian is simply someone who is against the use of force against peaceful people in civil society. You would think that this would be a universally accepted idea, but to believe in government as we know it is to be … Continue reading Busting Myths about the State and the Libertarian Alternative
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Black Gun, Silver Star
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reevesby Art T. Burton In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas … Continue reading Black Gun, Silver Star
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