Book Excerpts

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Building Tenant Power

By Tracy Rosenthal & Leonardo Vilchis

An excerpt from Abolish Rent on the struggle to make housing a human right

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Standing Up to Trump

By Steven Robinson

An excerpt from Turf War on opposing Trump’s Television City development in the 1980s

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Connection Is Our Lost Superpower

By David Jay

An excerpt from Relationality on fixing our crisis of loneliness

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Praying for Rain

By Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley & Dan Weijers

An excerpt from How to Think About Progress on the perils of technological futurism

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The Need for AI Literacy

By Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor 1

An excerpt from AI Snake Oil on separating hype from reality

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The Infinite Organization

By Anders Indset

An excerpt from The Viking Code on flourishing through collective spirit

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Boston

By Justin C. Cohen & Christopher Emdin

An excerpt from From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood on unplugging from the nonprofit industrial matrix

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A Systemic Transition With Less

By Navi Radjou

An excerpt from The Frugal Economy on regenerating people, places, and the planet

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From Vision to Fingerspitzengefühl

By John Marks

An excerpt from From Vision to Action with 11 principles for social entrepreneurship

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Equitable Taxation

By Paolo de Renzio

An excerpt from A Taxing Journey on ways civic actors can help close country-level tax loopholes