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The Bail Trap
A Scandal at the Heart of American Justice$27.99From the renowned founder of The Bail Project, an eye-opening book about why we allow money to play any role in the administration of justice
Over 90 percent of people held in jail pretrial because they cannot pay cash bail will plead guilty, whether they committed a crime or not. Cash bail not only creates a two-tier system of justice— one for those with money and one for those without—it also drives racial disparities in the criminal justice system and is responsible for almost all net jail growth in America over the past two decades. There is perhaps no other component of America’s justice system that is so broken, yet completely integral to the current operation of our courts, as bail.
With engaging and accessible prose, Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, and her colleague Camilo Ramirez tell the shocking true stories of people jailed by poverty while also detailing:
- the history of bail, from its inception in medieval England, as an incentive for people to return to court, to modern America where it is a “mechanism for detention”
- the roles lawyers, judges, and legislators have in the legal system and how and why they have become complicit in excessive bail
- how the current bail system undermines the promise of a fair and just system and the U.S. Constitution
- effective alternatives to cash bail
For fans of The Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer and James Kilgore’s Understanding Mass Incarceration, Steinberg, whose previous book was called “powerfully insightful reading” by Kirkus Reviews, and Ramirez provide an unprecedented look at America’s cash bail system and inspire us to imagine a better, fairer way forward.
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The Constitution Cannot Save Us
$31.99A radical argument by the leading constitutional scholar that American constitutional law lacks the resources to address our current problems, and risks making them worse
Constitutional theorists on the Right and the Left are united in the belief that constitutional law and review by the Supreme Court are crucial to the success of the American experiment. Both sides believe that, on issues ranging from affirmative action, reproductive freedom, and gun control, to economic regulation, regulation of speech, and the role of religion in American society, popular democracy is just too dangerous to go unchecked.
In a paradigm-shifting argument sure to change the debate about the rule of law in the age of Trump, Louis Michael Seidman argues that there is no approach to constitutionalism that can withstand the recent collapse of a progressive political coalition and an administration that has embraced a malignant populism. Seidman, called “one of our greatest living constitutional scholars” by Georgetown University Law professor Rosa Brooks, understands that a natural reaction to the current danger is to shore up the foundations of constitutional theory, uniting in the defense of “the rule of law.” But he sees this response as gravely mistaken and bound to fail. As he writes in the introduction, “no one should be fooled into thinking that a legal strategy will stop the broad thrust of the Trump revolution.”
Instead, he charts a different way forward. If both sides ended their dogmatic insistence that divisive social issues can be definitively settled by a piece of aging parchment, we might ease political tensions and begin a respectful and productive debate about the deep grievances that are tearing the country apart.
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How They See Us
The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump$19.99 – $49.00From the celebrated magazine of writing from around the world, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, edited by a winner of the European Press Prize
The 2024 U.S. presidential election reverberated internationally, a global event whose outcome has already reshaped trade, migration, security, and rising authoritarianism across the world. Inside the United States, we are swamped by a news cycle; but how does the wider world see and interpret what is happening under Trump?
In How They See Us, twelve of some of the most talented and insightful journalists from around the world probe their home countries’ complex relationship with the United States—and especially, how this has swerved under the new administration. A diverse, international cast of writers examines:
- how Turkey’s recent history helps us understand America’s slide into autocracy
- how Argentina’s century-long obsession with the dollar has changed under Trump
- the new wave of anti-American tourism activism in Italy
- what Elon Musk gets wrong about South Africa
- how Taiwan is navigating the uncertainty of Trump’s response in the event of a Chinese invasion
- the newly fraught view of the U.S. among Canadians
Featuring all new pieces commissioned by The Dial, the celebrated magazine of culture, politics, and ideas from around the world, How They See Us both shifts and expands our frame of reference, our self-awareness, and our understanding of how much our world has changed since the fateful election of 2024.
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Challenging Cases
Judges Tell the Stories of High-Profile and Other Tough Cases$29.99Following on the success of Tough Cases, called “A law buff’s dream” by headbutler.com, this companion volume collects judges’ firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watching
Most cases that judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. In Challenging Cases, some of the country’s leading jurists talk about the most difficult cases they’ve handled—ones where the eyes of the world were upon them.
Whether the defendant was a beloved major league baseball player, a movie star, or a well-known sex-offender, or whether the topic addressed an especially contentious aspect of the culture wars, these cases played out before millions of on-lookers, adding a whole new dimension to what is already a Solomonic responsibility.
In their previous book, Tough Cases, called “an unprecedented view from the bench” by legal commentator Greta van Susteren, and “a genuine revelation” by Justin Driver in The Washington Post, Judges Canan, Mize, and Weisberg made us privy to the thought processes of judges making some of their hardest legal decisions. In Challenging Cases, over a dozen judges from courts in DC, Texas, Seattle, Michigan, Maine, Buffalo, Virginia, and more speak to the added challenge of trials involving high-profile defendants. Cases include:
- the perjury trial of Roger Clemens
- the sentencing of January 6th rioters
- the case of Dr. Larry Nassar, accused of the sexual abuse of hundreds of female athletes
- the Kosovo international war crimes trial
- the Johnny Depp trial
Providing the fodder for a whole new season of Law and Order, Challenging Cases is for every actual and armchair legal beagle in the country.
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For Louder Days
Reaching Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness$29.99The essential guide to establishing an effective opposition movement in the age of Trump, from the leading activist and organizer
“I consider [Marom] one of the most generous and important thinkers for the activist left, for anyone who cares about where we are and how to get to where we should be.” —Rebecca Solnit
Yotam Marom’s For Louder Days, a brilliant, lyrical, clarion cry for a clearer, more powerful, and more efficacious approach to progressive activism, is grounded in hard-won lessons drawn from years of work with Occupy, the Sunrise Movement, multiracial organizing, and beyond. A nationally recognized strategist, Marom dives deep into the challenges that hold movements back, revealing how embracing hard truths and healthy conflict can unlock the potential for real and enduring change.
Structured as a series of reflections on Marom’s experiences across two decades, the book provides a practical handbook for today’s organizers, offering tangible tools and frameworks for building resilient, effective movements capable of confronting deep-seated injustices. For Louder Days doesn’t shy away from the complexities of organizing, but instead offers a hopeful and actionable vision. It is a vital resource for anyone committed to social justice, offering the clarity and courage needed to build a better world from the ground up.
Published at the most perilous moment in our modern political history, For Louder Days comes not a moment too soon. If the opposition is to hold back the tide of oppression and violence, Yotam Marom shows how that can be done.
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A Bite-Sized History of Italy
Gastronomic Tales of the Roman Empire, Renaissance, and Republic$27.99A compelling exploration into the rich tapestry of Italian food history and culture, from the Roman Empire to today, by the co-host of the top-ranked Gola food and wine podcast
While Italy has existed as a nation-state only since 1861, a distinctly Italian identity had been simmering for centuries, nourished by a shared culinary culture. From the dormice and garum of the Roman Empire to the heresy of pineapple pizza, A Bite-Sized History of Italy traces this legacy, offering a delicious romp through millennia of culinary tradition and transformation.
Author Danielle Callegari, associate professor at Dartmouth and co-host of the Gola podcast, guides readers on a spirited tour through the kitchens, vineyards, city squares, and coastal ports of the iconic peninsula, offering an intimate portrait of a place so famous for its food it nearly defies interrogation—even as it might be said that food is the very reason for its existence.
With boundless energy and a fearless palate, Callegari explores beloved staples—pizza, pasta, parmigiano—alongside the unsung flavors that shaped Italian identity: legumes, wild herbs, game birds, spices, and the contributions of Jewish and other minority communities. She reveals how Italy’s rise as Europe’s gastronomic heart is rooted in religious customs, class dynamics, and the echoes of empire, as well as how food became a language of both unity and division.
Through stories of what was eaten, and by whom, this latest addition to The New Press’s standout Bite-Sized series, A Bite-Sized History of Italy offers a glimpse of the making of Italy itself—a nation defined, defended, and devoured around the table.
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The Sacred Art of Teaching
The Delpit/Emdin Conversations$27.99An unprecedented, no-holds-barred set of dialogues about race and education from two of the country’s best-known educators
The Sacred Art of Teaching is that rare thing: two intelligent talkers in conversation. Lisa Delpit was one of the first educators to receive a MacArthur “genius” Award. Her book Other People’s Children is a classic in the field, and she has been called “a visionary scholar and reformer” by the Harvard Education School, which featured Delpit in the school’s Centennial celebration and awarded her an outstanding alumni award. Chris Emdin is an award-winning educator whose book For White People Who Teach in the Hood . . . and the Rest of Y’all Too was a national best-seller. He is the creator of the HipHopEd social media movement and has been named one of Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans and one of twenthy-seven people bridging divides in the U.S. by Time magazine.
In this powerful and deeply personal volume, these two educators, generations apart but united by a shared commitment to transformative education, compare notes for the first time. Readers are treated to candid exchanges on topics including the role of art in education, students and politics, how educators of color can navigate the academy, specific approaches to pedagogy, the role of rap in education, and how spirituality informs their work. With honesty, humor, and hard-won wisdom, they reflect on their own journeys into education, the challenges they’ve faced, and the strategies they’ve developed to uphold equity and justice in a system too often resistant to both. These conversations are not only intellectually rich but emotionally resonant, offering a model of mentorship, mutual respect, and the power of dialogue across difference.
A gift to teachers, scholars, and anyone passionate about reimagining public education, this book is a lasting contribution to the field—one that will inspire readers for generations to come.
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Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else?
Playing Offense in the Fight for Racial Justice in America$28.99From the bestselling author of Brown Is the New White, an explosive new argument for draining the swamp of white male privilege
We are witnessing an attack on equal rights in America unparalleled since the collapse of Reconstruction. In the tradition of his New York Times and Washington Post bestseller Brown Is the New White and his “spirited and persuasive” (Publishers Weekly) How We Win the Civil War, Steve Phillips’s goal is nothing less than to exhort people to go on the offensive in the fight for racial justice in this country—to flip the script from the underrepresentation of people of color to the overrepresentation of white men.
In twelve short, animated chapters covering the fields of business, arts and entertainment, government, higher education, philanthropy, and democracy itself, Phillips shows how Straight White American Male Preference (or S.W.A.M.P.) has come roaring out of the shadows once again. Far from being a country where white men have suffered under so-called reverse racism, Phillips reveals America to be a place where white men—a minority population—have enjoyed unfair legal advantages, racial quotas, grade inflation, and jumping the line for public benefits.
Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else? calls for nothing less than draining the swamp of white male privilege. Fearless, funny, and deeply researched, this much-needed corrective offers equality-loving readers the arguments and energy they need to launch a new counterattack.
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It’s Not Just You
How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis$21.99 – $49.00A timely edition of the book Greta Thunberg says, “the world is in desperate need of,” with a new foreword from TIME100 Next climate activist Leah Thomas, published in time for Earth Day
For anyone who’s ever felt overwhelmed by the climate crisis—you’re not alone. In a book that was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize on Writing and Global Conservatism, activist and mental health advocate Tori Tsui takes readers on a powerful journey through the emotional terrain of climate grief, anxiety, and burnout. Combining memoir, intersectional analysis, and activist storytelling, Tsui, named a Stella McCartney Agent of Change, redefines eco-anxiety as not just a personal response to planetary crisis, but a political and communal condition rooted in systems of oppression—racism, colonialism, capitalism, and ableism.
With clarity and heart, Tsui traces her lived experience as a queer woman of color navigating mental illness and activism on a global scale: from sailing across the Atlantic for a climate summit to finding healing with Indigenous communities in Colombia. Alongside personal reflections, she amplifies the voices of marginalized organizers, critiques the commodification of wellness, and insists that true climate action must also be mental health care. By refusing simplistic fixes, It’s Not Just You insists on justice, solidarity, and radical care as the antidotes to our present-day despair.
Featuring contributions from Mikaela Loach, author of Climate Is Just the Start; Vanessa Nakate, author of A Bigger Picture; and Talia Woodin, climate photographer for Atmos, Middle East Eye, i-D, and The Guardian, among others, this slim volume is a must-read for anyone reckoning with the emotional weight of the climate crisis. Whether you’re just learning the term “eco-anxiety” or you’ve been carrying it for years, Tsui offers validation, perspective, and most of all: community. Along with a foreword by Leah Thomas, named to the Ebony Power 100, Tsui reminds readers that they are most resilient when they lean on—and learn from—each other.
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Pushed to the Edge
Teachers' Stories from the Culture Wars$29.99Powerful tales of resilience, from educators and librarians in the face of the growing bigotry stoked by the far right
When the Proud Boys stormed a library near her former school to disrupt a Drag Queen Story Hour, veteran public school teacher Sue Granzella knew she had to respond. Drawing on more than thirty years in the classroom, she began documenting the stories of fellow educators and librarians across California who have been harassed and threatened for teaching honestly about race, gender, immigration, religion, and sexuality. Many would be surprised to hear that it’s happening in California, the state long considered the haven of liberals and the pinnacle of acceptance and tolerance. If states such as Florida and Texas have been the canary-in-the-coalmine of nascent culture wars, California is now the disaster siren, screaming a state of emergency.
Pushed to the Edge is a powerful and timely collection of first-person accounts from the front lines of today’s escalating culture wars. Cassandra, a young, queer woman of color and an award-winning teacher, was shattered by homophobia and viciously emboldened parents, and was ultimately forced to leave the job she’d dreamed of since kindergarten. In Temecula, educators mobilized their community to try to overthrow the Christian nationalist school board determined to eliminate the teaching of Black history. While rooted in California, the book’s insights and urgency resonate nationwide—offering both a sobering view of what’s at stake in our schools and our libraries and a hopeful testament to those who refuse to back down.
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Pink Crime
Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity$27.99A sobering revelation of the law’s ramped-up attacks on the most vulnerable among us, and what to do about it
Pink Crime is a revealing and deeply researched examination of the strategic use of criminal law by today’s right-wing movement to limit the bodily autonomy of women and queer people. The criminal justice system increasingly targets the most vulnerable populations, particularly women, pregnant individuals, and queer people. This powerful book examines the alarming rate of wrongful convictions among women, uncovering how bias, stigma, and unreliable evidence have led to prosecution where no crime occurred. It paints a disturbing picture of how the deaths of loved ones—whether a husband who passed in his sleep or a child with a health condition—have been twisted into false accusations of murder due to systemic prejudices and prosecutorial overreach.
The book goes beyond wrongful convictions to explore the criminalization of identity, revealing how today’s legal system disproportionately punishes actions related to pregnancy, motherhood, and queer identity. Pink Crime emphasizes how these legal mechanisms not only strip away basic rights but also lay the groundwork for even more oppressive measures in the future.
This deep and comprehensive analysis provides readers with historical context, real-life case studies, and a legal framework to understand the current threat posed by the strategic use of criminal law. By examining the interplay of wrongful convictions and the criminalization of vulnerable communities, the book offers vital insights into the coercive power of the legal system. It serves as a wake-up call to advocates, lawyers, and citizens, equipping them with the knowledge and tools necessary to push back against these injustices and fight for systemic reform to protect bodily autonomy and fundamental rights.
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Fifty Years of Title IX
How 37 Words Changed America$25.99A “valuable, well-researched and nuanced history” (Booklist) of the groundbreaking law that transformed education, athletics, and gender equity in the United States—and the battles still being fought today
In 1972, thirty-seven words quietly entered federal law and ignited a revolution:
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Title IX redefined what was possible for women and girls in America’s schools—from access to classrooms and sports fields to protection from sexual harassment and assault. In Fifty Years of Title IX, a book The Washington Monthly calls “an impressive feat,” award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert traces the dramatic story of how this pivotal law came to be, how it has evolved, and why it remains a powerful—and contested—force in the struggle for gender justice.
Through meticulous reporting, Boschert introduces readers to the trailblazers behind the law, including Bernice Resnick Sandler, and the generations who have demanded that its promises be fulfilled. Called “inspiring” by Publishers Weekly, Fifty Years of Title IX “puts a human face” (Library Journal) on the fight for gender equity.
As Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of No Stopping Us Now, writes, Boschert has published “a road map for what it will take to go forward. It is a really important book.”
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Other People’s Houses
A Novel$19.99A sixtieth-anniversary edition of Lore Segal’s “immensely impressive” (The New Republic) semi-autobiographical novel of a Jewish girl’s escape to England from Vienna after Hitler’s rise to power—”both moving and newly relevant” (The Guardian)
Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People’s Houses tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who, alongside hundreds of other Jewish children, boards the Kindertransport to England to escape the Nazi occupation and oppression in Vienna in 1938.
Over the course of the next seven years, Lore lives with various families in “other people’s houses”—ranging from the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. As the war looms and Lore becomes enmeshed in the effort to get her parents out of Austria, she also becomes a passionate writer, documenting her struggles and displacement in letters to a variety of potential sponsors. Brilliantly highlighting the cultural differences between Vienna and England, the novel showcases the immigrant experience through the eyes of a young writer who would go on to become the highly acclaimed “brilliant and boundary-breaking” (Los Angles Review of Books) star of international fiction.
Told through the unique and moving perspective of a child forced to grow up quickly, Other People’s Houses is the “groundbreaking and indomitable” (Forbes) tale of one girl’s captivating refugee experience and the strength and bravery it takes to start over—and to survive.
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Shakespeare’s Kitchen
Stories$17.99From the acclaimed author of Her First American, a “charming novel disguised as a book of short stories,” (The New York Times Book Review) exploring belonging, connection, intimacy, and self-acceptance
The thirteen interconnected stories of Shakespeare’s Kitchen capture the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring seven short stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker, including the O. Henry Prize–winning “The Reverse Bug,” and including six additional pieces, Lore Segal’s stunning collection “exhibits a rare insight into the human character” (Publishers Weekly).
Called “an enchanting storyteller” by The Los Angeles Times, Segal unravels a web of human relationships as we meet Ilka Weisz, who, having accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a Connecticut think tank, reluctantly leaves her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute’s director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza.
Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, Sunday brunches, and long hours of kitchen conversation, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of an outsider’s loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people’s deaths.
A magnificent, wholly original “comedy of manners set in academic” (Booklist), Shakespeare’s Kitchen is “filled with all the pomp and depressed glory of a modern day The Great Gatsby . . . these vignettes are hilarious and telling. Segal exhibits a rare insight into the human character that is at once humbling and shamelessly enjoyable to behold” (Publishers Weekly).
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Her First American
A Novel$19.99A fortieth-anniversary edition of the unforgettable, eccentric “truly original novel” (Newsday), an evocative tale of race, romance, and the complexities of the human—experience, by the Pulitzer Prize finalist
She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. At first, their relationship is fueled by lust, but also by a shared sense of displacement, with Ilka having fled her homeland and Carter struggling to find his place in a society steeped in racism and prejudice.
In an effort to assimilate and discover “the real America,” Ilka hurls herself into Carter’s chaotic world, helping him navigate depression, alcoholism, and the ghosts of his past—and present. Will Ilka sacrifice her own needs—and future—for Carter’s, or can she save him from the demons and traumas that are tearing him, and them, apart?
First published forty years ago to universal acclaim, called “wonderful” by People magazine, and “quiet, funny, slyly affecting” in a starred Kirkus review, and now featuring a new introduction by acclaimed novelist Jeffrey Renard Allen, Her First American cements its place among the great American novels and introduces a new generation of readers to the brilliant Lore Segal.
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Red Pill Politics
Demystifying Today’s Far Right$29.99A smart and accessible dissection of twenty-first-century fascist politics, providing general readers with the tools to understand, and defeat, today’s resurgent far right
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies—and stoking widespread fears of the revival of fascism. What to make of this terrifying drift?
In this timely, deeply researched, and deftly argued examination of far-right politics today, the political scientist David Ost shows that to grasp the very real threat of resurgent fascism, we must look beyond the extreme examples of Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy lest we miss the growing strength—and the distinctly populist appeal—of today’s far right. Instead, drawing on a wide range of compelling contemporary and historical examples, Ost shows that we must understand the current global movement as part of a new political category, which he calls “Red Pill Politics” in reference to the right-wing meme which purports to peel back the facade of liberal hegemony. While Red Pill Politics exhibits many features of classical fascism—racial exclusion, xenophobic fearmongering, enforcement of rigid gender roles—contemporary far-right parties have won power not through violence and mass repression, but through anti-elite, populist rhetoric and elections.
For readers of Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works, Red Pill Politics draws on meticulous historical research and analysis of contemporary far-right politics to help us understand and fight one of today’s most pressing political threats.
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Tough Cases
Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made$22.99 – $27.99“Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation. . . . Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.”
—Justin Driver, The Washington PostA rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases—Law and Order from behind the bench—including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy—all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It’s the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them.
In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance U.S. law with tribal law, a young Korean American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman who has killed her own children.
Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.
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The Know-It-Alls
The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball$21.99 – $25.95Included in Backchannel’s (WIRED.com) “Top Tech Books of 2017”
An “important” book on the “pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.”
—New York Times
How the titans of tech’s embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner placeIn The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life. Beginning nearly a century ago and showcasing the role of Stanford University as the incubator of this new class of super geeks, Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet.
Donald Trump’s election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the “disruption” that Silicon Valley has been pushing: Facebook and Twitter, eager to entertain their users, turned a blind eye to the fake news and the hateful ideas proliferating there. The Rust Belt states that shifted to Trump are the ones being left behind by a “meritocratic” Silicon Valley ideology that promotes an economy where, in the words of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, each of us is our own start-up. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray. The Know-It-Alls explains how these self-proclaimed geniuses failed this most important test of democracy. -
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation$19.99 – $26.992018 American Book Award Winner
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic
How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”?
Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls “cripping animal ethics.”
Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice—which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition—are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring—whether about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of human superiority over animals—Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant new voice.
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Equal Means Equal
The Case for Recognizing the ERA as the 28th Amendment$16.95 – $18.99When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family‘s Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the arguments against the ERA that historically stood in the way of ratification have gone the way of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a new Coalition for the ERA was recently set up to bring the experience and wisdom of old-guard activists together with the energy and social media skills of a new-guard generation of women.In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women’s rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.
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Black Stats
African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century$14.95 – $49.00An essential handbook of eye-opening—and frequently myth-busting—facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today
There’s no defeating white supremacist myths without data—real data. Black Stats is a compact and useful guide that offers up-to-date figures on Black life in the United States today, avoiding jargon and assumptions and providing critical analyses and information.
Monique Couvson, author of the acclaimed Pushout, has compiled statistics from a broad spectrum of telling categories that illustrate the quality of life and the possibility of (and barriers to) advancement for a group at the heart of American society. With fascinating information on everything from disease trends, incarceration rates, and lending practices to voting habits, green jobs, and educational achievement, the material in this book will enrich and inform a range of public debates while challenging commonly held yet often misguided perceptions.
Black Stats simultaneously highlights measures of incredible progress, conveys the disparate impacts of social policies and practices, and surprises with revelations that span subjects including the entertainment industry, military service, and marriage trends. An essential tool for advocates, educators, and anyone seeking racial justice, Black Stats is an affordable guidebook for anyone seeking to understand the complex state of our nation.
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Other People’s Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom$17.95 – $21.99The classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur award–winning educator
“Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice.” —San Francisco Review of Books
In this groundbreaking, radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur award–winning author Lisa Delpit develops the theory that teachers must be effective “cultural transmitters” in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and assumptions often breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers educate “other people’s children” and perpetuate the imbalanced power dynamics that plague our system.
Now a classic of educational thought and a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America’s education system, Other People’s Children has sold over 250,000 copies since its original publication. Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award, this anniversary edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as important framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.
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