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  • Gerontocracy in America

    How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    A leading social critic identifies our least discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and President Trump’s erratic behavior, we’ve neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer of power and wealth to the oldest among us, and the curtailment of the prospects of the young. In Gerontocracy in America, the historian and social ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Liberalism against Itself

    Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisisBy the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Humane

    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Utopia

    Human Rights in History

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled ... Read more

    $29.39 CAD

  • Christian Human Rights

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Series series Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic Church and transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of the new ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Holocaust Controversy

    The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a young Jewish journalist, published Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp. A cross between a ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

    $23.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Gerontocracy in America

    How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Narrated by Evan Sibley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and President Trump’s erratic behavior, we’ve neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer of power and wealth to the oldest among us, and the curtailment of the prospects of the young. In Gerontocracy in America, the historian and social ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Human Rights and the Uses of History

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Christian Human Rights

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Series series Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic Church and transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of the new ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Modernist Imagination

    Intellectual History and Critical Theory

    Edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn ...
    Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Right to Have Rights

    by Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Samuel Moyn, Astra Taylor, Lida Maxwell ...
    Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of Man—before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on—there must first be such a thing as “the right to have rights.” ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD