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Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be

Moisés Naím

4.2 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edward Herrmann, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild and Barbara Kingsolver

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

Anu Partanen

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Sales: A Systems Approach [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook)

Daniel Keating

4.3 on Amazon

3 HN comments

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

James Duane and Brilliance Audio

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Charter Schools and Their Enemies

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

TRANCE Formation of America: True life story of a mind control slave

Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Contracts

Barcharts Inc

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

Stacy Schiff

3.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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downerendingonDec 4, 2019

If you've not seen it, Thomas Sowell incisively comments on the wish for the impossible in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. There's a full book, but the original speech gives the main point:

https://www.tsowell.com/spquestc.html

Definitely worth a look, even if you don't think it applies here.

tvladeckonFeb 5, 2019

The Quest for Cosmic Justice is another great book by Sowell that challenges the utopian mindset that underlies many modern policy discussions. It contrasts utopian "cosmic" justice with the much more prosaic (but achievable) "human" justice

iterativeonNov 25, 2013

Anyone who actually thinks this is a good idea should read Thomas Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice (http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Cosmic-Justice-Thomas-Sowell/dp/...), and everything else Sowell wrote, and Hayek and von Mises, and Friedman and all the other economists who've long since debunked this kind of idiocy . . .
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