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According to Michael King, Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies may be "the most influential book ever to come out of New Zealand." Written in Christchurch in the last years of the Second World War by a Jewish intellectual in exile from Vienna, the book's forthright attack on Plato created a storm of controversy worldwide, and continues to be influential today. In this piece, I want to reintroduce Popper to the current generation of New Zealanders. I look at how the book came to be written in New Zealand, and what Popper thought of the country. I also examine the controversy surrounding the book, and see what we might say about it today, especially in light of subsequent scholarship.

"Ideological warfare against authority, especially in the world of higher education, broke out in the 1960s, and continues into the 1990s. No source or symbol of authority escaped untouched?neither parents nor teachers nor the cop on the beat. While the hippies have gone underground or disappeared entirely, the assault on legitimate authority continues unabated. As familiar institutions crumble before our eyes, befuddled liberals and conservatives alike throw up their hands in despair. In Authority and Its Enemies, Thomas Molnar asserts that the Western world is reeling from an overdose of freedom without order or authority."--Provided by publisher.

This article examines the role of media technology in determining preconstitutive enemies of the political order. To do so, it analyzes how discipline-specific methods of enemy detection, analysis, and neutralization correspond to different media environments. Media have a diagnostic and prescriptive significance: not only do they locate enemies that conform to their own unique standards of measurement, they also offer reprogramming resources that accentuate their own peculiar biases and capacities. Episodes in the history of biology and psychology are examined for evidence of this media logic.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- 1. On Authority -- 2. The Nature of Authority -- 3. Authority in the Life of Men -- 4. The Enemies of Authority -- 5. The Restoration of Authority -- 6. The Nature of the Restoration: Augustan or Despotic? -- 7. The Limits of Authority -- Index

Natural Enemies of Books' is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication 'Bookmaking on the Distaff Side', which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, printers, typographers and typesetters, highlighting the print industrys inequalities and proposing a takeover of the history of the book. Edited by feminist graphic design collective MMS (Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark and Sara Kaaman), 'Natural Enemies of Books' includes newly commissioned essays and poems by Kathleen Walkup, Ida Börjel, Jess Baines, Ulla Wikander and conversations with former typesetters Inger Humlesjö, Ingegärd Waaranperä, Gail Cartmail and Megan Downey, as well as reprints of the original book and other publications. -- Das feministische Grafikdesignerinnenkollektiv MMS (www.mms-arkiv.se) hat eine legendäre Publikation von 1937 wieder aufgegriffen, in dem sich Typografinnen, Buchgestalterinnen und Druckerinnen gegen die mangelnde Wertschätzung von Frauen in der Druckbranche starkmachten. Das neue Büchlein verbindet Reprintseiten und aktuelle Beiträge.

NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of contempt"--the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you dislike it. But hey, either you play along, or you'll be left behind, right?Wrong. In Love Your Enemies, the New York Times bestselling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that abuse and outrage are not the right formula for lasting success. Brooks blends cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience of experience leading one of America's top policy think tanks in a work that offers a better way to lead based on bridging divides and mending relationships.Brooks' prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, we shouldn't try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn't be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act.Love Your Enemies offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. Most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences

Intro -- Introduction to 2nd Edition -- Contents -- Preface -- Background: England and South Africa -- 1. Emily Hobhouse - A Stoic in the Making -- 2. War Fever, Leonard, and the Liberal Opposition -- 3. The War, Stage One -- 4. A Plan In The Making -- 5. Cape Town -- 6. Bloemfontein Camp -- 7. The Southern Camps -- 8. More From Bloemfontein -- 9. Springfontein - Norvals Pont, First visit to Kimberly -- 10. Concerns in London -- Cape Town to Mafeking -- 11. They Called Me Too Sympathetic -- 12. The Distress Fund and Rowntree's Initiative -- 13. Emily's Initiative -- 14. As the Stops were Pulled -- 15. The Campaign and 'The Times' -- 16. Problems, 'The Times', News from the Transvaal -- 17. A Commitee of Lady Visitors -- 18. A Long Tired Summer -- 19. A Decision to Return -- 20. Arrest and Deportation -- 21. Return Voyage and Concern at Home -- 22. A Question of Justice -- 23. The Ladies Commission and Milner's Initiative -- 24. Mostly Legal -- 25. Christmas and the New Year -- 26. So The Case Ends -- 27. The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell -- 28. A Bright Figure on a Sombre Background -- 29. Home Industries -- 30. Illness and Letters -- 31. Amidst a World War -- 32. To Love One's Enemies - Germany and After -- 33. In Conclusion - Their Great Friend -- Appendix I: The Camps and their Administration -- Appendix II: Stories -- Under War Conditions -- The Journey -- The Camps -- The Coming of the Peace -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. But the truth of the matter, writes Daniel Cohen in this provocative account, may be the reverse. Globalization, thanks to the speed of twenty-first-century communications, shows people a world of material prosperity that they do want--a vivid world of promises that have yet to be fulfilled. For the most impoverished developing nations, globalization remains only an elusive image, a fleeting mirage. Never before, Cohen says, have the means of communication--the media--created such a global consciousness, and never have economic forces lagged so far behind expectations. Today's globalization, Cohen argues, is the third act in a history that began with the Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century and continued with Great Britain's nineteenth-century empire of free trade. In the nineteenth century, as in the twenty-first, a revolution in transportation and communication did not promote widespread wealth but favored polarization. India, a part of the British empire, was just as poor in 1913 as it was in 1820. Will today's information economy do better in disseminating wealth than the telegraph did two centuries ago? Presumably yes, if one gauges the outcome from China's perspective; surely not, if Africa's experience is a guide. At any rate, poor countries require much effort and investment to become players in the global game. The view that technologies and world trade bring wealth by themselves is no more true today than it was two centuries ago. We should not, Cohen writes, consider globalization as an accomplished fact. It is because of what has yet to happen--the unfulfilled promises of prosperity--that globalization has so many enemies in the contemporary world. For the poorest countries of the world, the problem is not so much that they are exploited by globalization as that they are forgotten and excluded.

We develop a model where some politicians have an edge in undertaking a task and this gives them electoral advantage, creating an incentive to underperform in the task. We test the empirical implications in the context of fighting against insurgents, using Colombian data. The main prediction is that large defeats for the insurgents reduce the probability that these politicians fight them, especially in electorally salient places. We find that after the largest victories against FARC rebels, the government reduced its counterinsurgency efforts, especially in politically important municipalities. Politicians need to keep enemies alive in order to maintain their political advantage. © 2014 Royal Economic Society

The most powerful PLO faction is facing simultaneous challenges, and at the worst possible moment for the Palestinian national movement.