Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for the first time, these essays are collected together to form a coherent, punchy look at American Politics in 2018. Contextualized by a new prologue and new conclusion, as well as updated with new material throughout, these essays provide a cogent demonstration of the power of analytical thinking to create clear and understandable descriptions of issues that impact us all, but are most often obfuscated by propaganda, lying by omission, or other forms of distortion. For those who encounter this work, it is hoped that they will come away with a clearer, if not happier, idea of what sort of world we are all living in.  

List of contents

1. Prologue: On the Art of Analysis.- 2. Some Contemporary Problems.- 3. The Importance of International Law Chapter.- 4. The United States.- 5. On Trump, Guns and Torture.- 6. Israel, Zionism and the Jews Chapter.- 7. Villains and Heroes.- 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Lawrence Davidson is Professor Emeritus of History at West Chester University, USA. He is the author of five academic titles, most recently Islamic Fundamentalism (2013) and Cultural Genocide (2012). 

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Davidson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2018
• EAN: 9783319980041
• ISBN: 978-3-31-998004-1
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 218 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Illustrations: XI, 255 p.
• Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Amerika, B, Politik und Staat, Political Science, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Political Theory, foreign policy, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, The Americas, US Politics, United States—Politics and government, American Politics