
The Affirmative Action Myth
Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many predicted that the black middle class was doomed. One byproduct of a half century of affirmative action is that it has given people the impression that blacks can’t advance without special treatment. In The Affirmative Action Myth, Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.
Black employment, incomes, homeownership, and educational attainment all were on the rise in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and began to stagnate only after affirmative action became the law of the land, tainting black achievement with suspicions of unfair advantage. Countering thinkers who blame white supremacy and systemic racism for today’s racial gaps, Riley offers a more optimistic story of black success without racial favoritism.
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When the Stones Speak
- The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know
- De: Doron Spielman
- Narrado por: Doron Spielman
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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As former vice president of the City of David Foundation, Doron Spielman has guided numerous visitors—including donors, diplomats, professors, celebrities, and American politicians—on a journey into the City of David’s tunnels. While often holding vastly different political views, these visitors agree on one thing: the story of the City of David must be told.
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The truth of it all
- De DonnaDee en 05-15-25
De: Doron Spielman
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The Purposeful Warrior
- Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High
- De: Jocelyn Benson
- Narrado por: Amanda Seyfried, Jocelyn Benson, Maria Shriver
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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As Michigan’s Secretary of State and chief election official, Jocelyn Benson has overseen several of the highest turnout, most secure elections in the state’s history. But her life changed one snowy evening in December 2020 when armed protesters descended onto her doorstep, threatening her family. Her only crime: certifying a fair and accurate Presidential election in which the protesters’ preferred candidate–Donald Trump–did not win. Benson refused to back down. She stood her ground, spoke out louder, and helped expose and defeat a coordinated national effort to overturn the election.
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Michiganders are lucky to have her
- De Dave T. en 05-11-25
De: Jocelyn Benson
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The Nazi Mind
- Twelve Warnings from History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust.
De: Laurence Rees
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Good Things Out of Nazareth
- The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends
- De: Flannery O'Connor, Ben Alexander
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Dorothy Dillingham Blue, full cast
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A literary treasure of over 100 unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O’Connor is a master of 20th-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and did.
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this narrator's faux southern accent is abominable
- De Tnarg Yrat en 11-10-19
De: Flannery O'Connor, y otros
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The Reopening of the Western Mind
- The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 27 h y 37 m
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Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era. As the dominance of Christian teachings gradually subsided over time, a new open-mindedness made way for the ideas of morality and theology, and fueled and formed the backbone of the Western mind of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond.
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Fascinating survey of 1,000+ years of thought
- De Roger en 11-07-23
De: Charles Freeman
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- De: Andrew Klavan
- Narrado por: Andrew Klavan
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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In The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it. The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history—including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel—and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Thought provoking
- De Matt Luckman en 05-17-25
De: Andrew Klavan
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2024
- How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
- De: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf
- Duración: 17 h
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Award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive and explosive account of how Trump and his advisers overcame a dozen primary challengers, four indictments, two assassination attempts, and his own past mistakes to defeat the Democrats, and pave the way for a second term that would be far more aggressive and ruthless than the first.
De: Josh Dawsey, y otros
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Copaganda
- How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- De: Alec Karakatsanis
- Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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"Copaganda" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970—despite record low crime rates—a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.
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a good introduction to propaganda
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-25
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Melting Point
- Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
- De: Rachel Cockerell
- Narrado por: Henry Goodman, Rachel Cockerell
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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In a highly inventive style, Cockerell captures history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews into a vivid account. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York, and Jerusalem—as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.
De: Rachel Cockerell
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The Israel Decree
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Controversial Strip of Land
- De: Amir Tsarfati
- Narrado por: Amir Tsarfati
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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The Israel Decree meticulously traces the historical, political, legal, and scriptural foundations of Israel's God-promised right to the land. Writing with clarity and commitment to biblical truth, bestselling author and native Israeli Amir Tsarfati helps you: understand how today’s Israel is a continuation of the ancient biblical nation, fulfilling a divine promise made millennia ago; live with greater expectancy and hope in light of what Bible prophecy says about the rapture and tribulation; and be encouraged by God’s wonderful character as you see it on display.
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Another wonderful book by Amir!
- De Sara Laigaard en 05-06-25
De: Amir Tsarfati