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This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states.

Why hasn't man created that perfect world? Is there something in nature that prevents this? This book examines the question of whether natural forces have prevented humans from creating a perfect society.

Many commentators believe that America entered a conservative period beginning about 1979, and this has been characterized as a decline in liberalism. However, America has always been a conservative nation and has never embraced the full liberalism as had been conceived of and, to some degree, implemented by the Europeans. This book explores the reasons for this, and how the current populist movement in much of the Western world may be another barrier to the creation of a liberal state in America.

This book examines how the development of the European social welfare state in the post-World War II period has proposed a threat to the American economic and social system.

This book looks behind the scenes to determine who or what runs American society.

This audiobook examines democracy, or a representative electoral political system, and the interaction with a nation's economy.

American liberals often look back to the New Deal era in American history as some idealized period and given today’s economic predicament of income inequality and globalization, infer that the New Deal period is a model that could be followed in order to solve America’s current economic problems. But this view hides the fact that the New Deal era was not addressing many of its current economic problems, many that remain unsolved even today in late 2018.

This book discusses the challenges that the American Democratic Party faces in the future.

There is talk in the Western world about a new relevance of Marxist theory. In this book, I show how Marxism can never be an adequate replacement for the admittedly flawed capitalist economic system.

This audiobook looks at the Trump administration and Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign and any collusion with the Russian government in the 2016 American presidential election, and how this whole dynamic masks great uncertainty in American politics over how to provide economic security to the American people.

This audiobook examines the concept of freedom in American culture, which, ironically, has led to conflict in American society.

This book examines the social and political forces that led to the election of Barack Obama to become the president of the United States in 2008, and the policies and opposition to his subsequent administration that led to the unleashing of populist forces that led to the election of Donald J. Trump as president in 2016.

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

This work is an examination of Darwin's theory of evolution, in particular his belief in competition as the driving force behind human development.

This book is an investigation of the word "democracy", to determine how the common definition meets the actual political reality in today's nations that call themselves democracies. We also try to determine whether the political process called democracy is leading to governments that are leading to man providing the highest quality of life for a nation's citizens, or whether these so-called democracies need reform to enable man to create a better future, and reach "the end of history."

This book is an investigation into the current debate about income inequality among intellectuals. I intend to show that this focus is misplaced and should be centered on the issue of assisting the most unfortunate in a given society.

This book is an examination of the social, economic, and political consequences of the great recession of 2008.

This book is an examination of the current unease and uncertainty in America at the beginning of the Trump era.

This book examines how the human mind, in particular that of the American working class, navigates the various cultural factors that have composed the American economy.

This book examines the differing world-views of the writers Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell and what it means about the nature of man and his future.