Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Again Author: Yuval Levin Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fractious America  Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with irreconcilable political perspectives, many people have grown frustrated under a system of government that constantly demands compromise. More and more on both the right and the left have come to blame the Constitution for the resulting discord. But the Constitution is not the problem we face; it is the solution.    Blending engaging history with lucid analysis, conservative scholar Yuval Levin’s American Covenant recovers the Constitution’s true genius and reveals how it charts a path to repairing America’s fault lines. Uncovering the framers’ sophisticated grasp of political division, Levin showcases the Constitution’s exceptional power to facilitate constructive disagreement, negotiate resolutions to disputes, and forge unity in a fractured society. Clear-eyed about the ways that contemporary politics have malfunctioned, Levin also offers practical solutions for reforming those aspects of the constitutional order that have gone awry.    Hopeful, insightful, and rooted in the best of our political tradition, American Covenant celebrates the Constitution’s remarkable power to bind together a diverse society, reassuring us that a less divided future is within our grasp.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy Author: Ali Velshi Narrator: Ali Velshi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact. Small acts of courage matter. Sometimes, they change the world. Our history books are filled with the stories of those who fought for democracy and freedom—for idealism itself—against all odds, from Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. These iconic struggles for social change illustrate the importance of engagement and activism, and offer a template for the battles we are fighting today. But using the right words is often easier than taking action; action can be hard, and costly. More than a century ago, MSNBC host Ali Velshi’s great-grandfather sent his seven-year-old son to live at Tolstoy Farm, Gandhi’s ashram in South Africa. This difficult decision would change the trajectory of his family history forever. From childhood, Velshi’s grandfather was imbued with an ethos of public service and social justice, and a belief in absolute equality among all people—ideals that his children carried forward as they escaped apartheid, emigrating to Kenya and ultimately Canada and the United States. In Small Acts of Courage, Velshi taps into 125 years of family history to advocate for social justice as a living, breathing experience—a way of life more than an ideology. With rich detail and vivid prose, he relates the stories of regular people who made a lasting commitment to fight for change, even when success seemed impossible. This heartfelt exploration of how we can breathe new life into the principles of pluralistic democracy is an urgent call to action—for progress to be possible, we must all do whatever we can to make a difference. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It Author: Adam J. Berinsky Narrator: Tom Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an 'inside job') and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate. If misinformation crowds out the truth, how can Americans communicate with one another about important issues? In this book, Adam Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them. Drawing on original survey and experimental data, Berinsky shows that a tendency toward conspiratorial thinking and vehement partisan attachment fuel belief in rumors. Berinsky argues that in fighting misinformation, it is as important to target the undecided and the uncertain as it is the true believers. In a world where most people don't pay attention to politics, political leaders are often guilty of disseminating false information—and failing to correct it when it is proven wrong. Berinsky suggests that we should focus on the messenger as much as the message. Just as important as how misinformation is debunked is who does the debunking.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age Author: Naomi Wolf Narrator: Carolyn White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history. In this uncompromising investigation into today’s most urgent issues, Naomi Wolf uses her own wildly politicized pilgrimage—from New York Times bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant to a journalist cast out from the elite political and social circles she once moved through—as a stunning narrative framework that is both chilling and incisive. Wolf’s sin? Doing the job that good journalists once prided themselves on: asking questions, challenging authority, and, during one of the most politically divisive moments in modern history, exposing the many failures of the public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic by chronicling the dangerous descent of our democracy into tyranny, censorship, and totalitarianism. Unable to remain silent in the shadows and unwilling to collude with the mainstream, Wolf bravely covers topics that few other writers dare to address critically for fear of being deplatformed. Facing the Beast explores reproductive rights, medical freedom, the uncurious thought-policing of the “progressive” left, the Second Amendment, the criminal relationship between the FDA and Pfizer—Wolf’s clear writing repeatedly shines light in the dark corners of our fractured society. A decades-long champion of free speech, freedom of the press, and the Constitution, Wolf found herself not only in the midst of a political rebirth but a spiritual transformation as well—one in which the events of the day could only be described in terms of good, evil, and a metaphysical quest on the nature of reality. For readers of Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, and Bari Weiss, Facing the Beast is a fearless indictment of legacy media and the political class, as well as a brutal reminder that searching for and defending the truth can be dangerous.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Pulverfass Balkan - Wie Diktaturen Einfluss in Europa nehmen (Ungekürzt) Author: Florian Bieber Narrator: Nils Nelleßen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 3, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Der nächste Brandherd vor unserer Haustür? Vor über hundert Jahren entzündete sich auf dem westlichen Balkan der Erste Weltkrieg. Verantwortlich dafür waren die Großmächte, die ihr Ringen um Vormacht in der Region austrugen. Heute baut China dort Straßen, Russland spornt Nationalisten an, die Türkei und die Golfstaaten investieren in Moscheen und Hotels. Sie alle sehen darin einen Weg, Einfluss auf Europa zu nehmen. Wiederholt sich die Geschichte? Florian Bieber, einer der besten Kenner des Balkans, schildert die explosive Gemengelage in der Region. Sie ist Schauplatz des neuen globalen Konflikts zwischen dem Westen und der autokratischen Internationale. Zugleich verfolgen die Akteure vor Ort ihre ganz eigene Agenda. Das Hörbuch ist ein Weckruf an Europa, endlich aktiv zu werden. Denn in der Region könnte sich seine Zukunft entscheiden.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Propaganda Author: Edward Bernays Narrator: Alisan özkan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Bu kitap modern dünyaya bakis açinizi degistirecek! Halkla iliskilerin babasi olan Edward Bernays’tan “Propaganda”! Her birimiz propagandanin hedefi oldugumuzun farkina bile varmadan günde birçok kez propagandayla karsi karsiyayiz. Hangi kiyafetleri giymeyi seçtiginizi, hangi filmleri izlediginizi, seçimlerde kime oy verdiginizi düsünün. Seçimleriniz kime bagli? Size bagli oldugundan emin misiniz? Inanmasi zor olabilir ama gerçekten kontrol ediliyoruz, zevklerimiz ve fikirlerimiz bizim için sekillendiriliyor, neyi istememiz, satin almamiz ve sevmemiz gerektigi dayatiliyor. Ve tüm bunlar çogunlukla adini hiç duymadigimiz insanlar tarafindan yapiliyor. Bernays’a göre propaganda, yeni fikirlerin aktif düsünen bir azinlik araciligiyla topluma nüfuz etmesine dayanir. Yazar, kitlelerin aliskanliklarinin ve fikirlerinin bilinçli ve akilli bir sekilde manipüle edilmesinin demokratik bir toplumun önemli bir bileseni olduguna inanmaktadir. Bu görünmez sosyal mekanizmayi manipüle edenler, herhangi bir ülkedeki gerçek yönetici güç olan gizli hükümeti olustururlar. Bernays kitabinda propagandanin siyaset, sanat, bilim ve egitim gibi çesitli alanlarda kolektif zihni kontrol etmek için nasil kullanildigini anlatmaktadir. Bu kitap, propaganda sanatinin nasil gelistigini ve kamuoyunu sekillendirmek için hangi yöntemlerin kullanildigini bilmek isteyen herkes için faydali olacaktir. Bu kitabin yardimiyla sunlari ögreneceksiniz: • Fikirlerimizi kontrol eden insanlar kim ve neden üzerimizde bu kadar güç sahibidir; • Propaganda neden gereklidir; • Halkla iliskiler psikolojisi propaganda yaratmada nasil bir rol oynar; • Medyanin çalismalari siyasi liderlik, egitim, bilim, sanat, sosyal hizmetler ve kadin hareketleriyle nasil iliskilidir; • Ve nihayetinde propaganda mekanizmalari nasil isler.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Welt in Aufruhr - Die Ordnung der Mächte im 21. Jahrhundert (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Herfried Münkler Narrator: Wolfgang Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Doch wie wird sie sich neu sortieren, und wie wird sie im 21. Jahrhundert aussehen? Vor welchen Umwälzungen, Brüchen und Umbrüchen stehen wir? Spätestens seit dem Abzug westlicher Truppen aus Afghanistan und dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine wissen wir, dass die bislang geltende Ordnung an ihr Ende gekommen ist. Eine auf Werten und Normen fußende Weltordnung durchzusetzen, übersteigt die Fähigkeiten des Westens. Die USA, einst 'Weltpolizist', befinden sich trotz internationalen Engagements auf dem Rückzug; die UN, der man diese Rolle ebenfalls zugedacht hatte, blockiert sich selbst. Und die Europäer sind schlicht nicht imstande, eine Weltordnung zu hüten. Eine prekäre, risikoreiche Lage. Herfried Münkler zeigt in dieser gedankenfunkelnden geopolitischen Analyse, wo in Zukunft die Konfliktlinien verlaufen. Viel spricht dafür, dass ein neues System regionaler Einflusszonen entsteht, dominiert von fünf Großmächten. Wo liegen die Gefahren dieser neuen Ordnung, wo ihre Chancen? Wäre es ein austariertes Mächtegleichgewicht - oder Chaos? Und wie sollten sich Europa und Deutschland in den zu erwartenden globalen Auseinandersetzungen verhalten? Ein aufregender, Maßstäbe setzender Ausblick auf die Machtkonstellationen im 21. Jahrhundert.