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  • In Covid's Wake

    How Our Politics Failed Us

    by Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee ...
    One of The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of the YearFeatured on the New York Times' The Daily podcast and CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPSWhat our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better**The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Just Married

    Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage

    by Stephen Macedo ...
    The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic societyThe institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to more radical marriage reform? Should it? Antonin Scalia and many others on the right warn of a slippery slope from same-sex ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Striking First

    Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict

    by Michael W. Doyle ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    An international relations expert presents a trenchant analysis of the Bush Doctrine, preemptive strikes, and the role of the UN in responding to threats.Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    In Covid's Wake

    How Our Politics Failed Us

    by Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee ...
    Narrated by Curtis Michael Holland ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population were living under quarantine. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Limits of Constitutional Democracy

    Edited by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is constitutional democracy? When does it succeed or fail? Can constitutional democracies conduct war? Can they ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The President Who Would Not Be King

    Executive Power under the Constitution

    by Michael W. McConnell, Stephen Macedo ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. In today's divided public square, presidential power has never been more contested. The President Who ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Secession and Self-Determination

    NOMOS XLV

    Edited by Stephen Macedo, Allen Buchanan ...
    Series Book 26 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession and self-determination are the key issues that cause strife and instability.This volume provides an ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Designing Democratic Institutions

    Nomos XLII

    Edited by Ian Shapiro, Stephen Macedo ...
    Series Book 32 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of democratic revolutions is typically short-lived, and usually followed by disgruntlement and even cynicism about the actual operation of democratic institutions. It is widely accepted that democracy is a good ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Moral and Political Education

    NOMOS XLIII

    Edited by Stephen Macedo, Yael Tamir ...
    Series Book 13 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what is the proper balance between public and private claimants to educational authority? Should parents be given greater control over their children's formal education? Are today's public schools promoting a culture of rootless individualism? Do we ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Child, Family and State

    NOMOS XLIV

    Edited by Stephen Macedo, Iris Marion Young ...
    In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a “normal” family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in “normalizing” families through public policy. In what ways should the law seek to facilitate, or oppose, parenting and child-rearing practices that depart from the “nuclear family” with two heterosexual parents? What should the state's ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Deliberative Politics

    Essays on Democracy and Disagreement

    Edited by Stephen Macedo ...
    Series series Practical and Professional Ethics
    The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. What does deliberative democracy stand for? What difference would deliberative practices make in the ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Perfectionism and Neutrality

    Essays in Liberal Theory

    by Bruce Ackerman, Richard J. Arneson, Ronald W. Dworkin, Gerald F. Gaus, Kent Greenawalt, Vinit Haksar, Thomas Hurka, George Klosko, Charles Larmore, Stephen Macedo0, Thomas Nagel1, John Rawls2, Joseph Raz3, George Sher4 ...
    Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. Editors George Klosko and Steven Wall provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD