Offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. This title shows how the infantilist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public goods with private commodities.

Examines the impact of liberalism on democratic government and argues that the participation of citizens in government is necessary for the survival of democracy.

Political scientist Benjamin R. Barber offers a penetrating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. Jihad versus Mcworld is the term that Barber uses to describe the powerful and paradoxical interdependence of these forces.

A hard-hitting but pragmatic critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

Does political philosophy have anything significant to say to citizens facing the real political world in a modern democracy? Addressing the thought of six major twentieth-century philosophers--Bertrand Russell, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Bruce Ackerman, Michael Oakeshott, and Alasdair MacIntyre--Benjamin Barber maintains that each of them has aided in the conquest of politics by abstract and ..

An examination of the state and values of the American educational system, that suggests the greatest crises facing American students is their inability to learn about democracy and self-governance. The author argues that democracy and education in America are inextricably linked.

Offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. This title shows how the infantilist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public goods with private commodities.