"In other words, we are getting a terrible return on our huge expenditure on health care." You can skip around the book. Or how about on when he shows how the US spends more than double, per capita, on health care than the UK, Canada, France, or Germany, and yet ranks at the bottom on longevity, accessibility, and coverage. "Our struggle is against a system where the top twenty-five hedge fund managers in the United States pocket more money than 350,000 kindergarten teachers." Exactly. "Made you look", he always seems to be saying. It would also, if successful, win the donor a very close and grateful relationship with a very powerful elected official." We know truths like this, but Bernie has a way of spelling them out in arresting ways. If that same person were to put $100 million into a super-PAC for that senator, their spending would be considered perfectly legal. "If someone were to offer a senator $100 to vote for or against a piece of legislation," he writes on, "it would, by any court of law, be considered a 'bribe.' Taking that bribe could land that person offering it – and the senator taking it – in jail. Chapter sub-heads include phrases like "Health care is a human right, not a privilege", "Children should be taught to think – not educated to be cogs in the machine", and "Political reform requires alternatives to a for-profit media system that dumbs down and diminishes debate in America." Each chapter is its own manifesto and I found my heart beating faster and faster while reading. The result is some kind of slow, almost grotesque, pan shot of the state of the US. This book contains ten passionate, rallying-cry chapters that smartly fold together stories, research, and reminders about big laws that were headline news for a few weeks a few decades ago but have disappeared as news. Bernie is one 82-year-old elder doing just that. Apex communicator! (He just wrote another Op-Ed four days ago called " Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel.") Do you see what I mean? The world is just so messy, blurry, and overwhelming and we need penetrating voices – master distillers! – to offer us clear views. I remember reading a New York Times Op-Ed by Bernie Sanders a few years ago called " The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us" and being struck by the clarity, concision, and power. It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders. Here are my book recommendations this month!ġ. If you know someone who'd like to join us send them here. The world does not want us to read books! Every screen seduces us farther away from the deeper, richer world of compressed wisdom waiting for us in the pages. Grab a copy for you or someone you love right here. It's got a new HOT PINK cover and I put a review in below. Last thing! Our Book Of Awesome – the first awesome book in a decade, written collectively with all of you! – drops in paperback on Tuesday. Still fiery! Btw: If you're new to the pod start with David Sedaris, Brené Brown, or Quentin Tarantino. And on the next full moon (Monday!) I'll be dropping a chat with Ralph Nader. I also released a longform "live from New York" conversation with human rocket ship Sahil Bloom. We just dropped it as a Bookmark called " Tips to Be a More Peaceful Parent." She was, however, in top form on her first-ever feature podcast. "More tissues! More tissues!" Poor Leslie has gone down with the ship. Our place has been full of midnight fevers, junkyard dog coughs, and screams from the basement. Other search options in the drop-down menu are "Title Starts With", "Title Contains", and "Author".Neil's Monthly Book Club is my oldest and most popular email newsletter. Then either push the Enter key on your keyboard, or click the GO! button. To use this method, simply type a word, words, or phrase into the blank at the top of the screen. NOTE: For searches with "AND", "OR", etc, use More Search Options. Word order and letter case do not matter. You'll be presented with the list of library items based on their relevancy to your search. It searches all titles, subtitles, authors' first and last names, various notes, and a number of other fields. It performs a Google®-type search (including support for putting phrases in quotes). Most likely, you'll want to use this simple search.
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