Sam Harris

Sam Harris (born Gregorian calendar month nine, 1967) is AN yank author, thinker, public intellectual, and microbiologist, similarly because the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. He’s the author of the tip of religion, that was revealed in 2004 and appeared on the ny Times trade edition list for thirty three weeks. The book conjointly won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for 1st nonfictional prose in 2005. In 2006, Harris revealed the book Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of the tip of religion. This work was followed by the ethical Landscape, revealed in 2010, his long-form essay lying in 2011, and also the short book powerfulness in 2012.

Harris may be a up to date critic of faith and soul of scientific skepticism and also the "New Atheism". He’s conjointly AN advocate for the separation of church and state, freedom of faith, and also the liberty to criticize faith. Harris has written varied articles for The Huntington Post, l.  a.   Times, the Washington Post, The ny Times, Newsweek, and also the journal Nature. His articles traumatize a diversity of topics, as well as faith, morality, neurobiology, free will, and terrorist act.

In his 2010 book the ethical Landscape, he argues that science will facilitate answer ethical issues, and may aid the facilitation of human well-being. He frequently provides talks round the u.  s. and nice kingdom, that embody speeches at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, and Tufts University, similarly as Teddy boy, wherever he printed the arguments created in his book The ethical Landscape. Harris has conjointly created varied TV appearances, as well as interviews for Nightline, Real Time with Bill Maher, The O'Reilly issue, The Daily Show, The Colbert butter Report, and also the Last Word, among others. He conjointly appeared within the documentary films The God UN agency Wasn't There (2005) and also the Unbelievers (2013).

Giving books away: World Book Night 2012

Last year a program got underway in the UK with a simple goal: to put books into the hands of those who want to read but don’t have easy access to reading material. The reasons might vary they can’t afford to buy books, don’t live near a library, can’t leave their homes. But in the end they are simply people who need books. This year World Book Night will take place in the U. S., the U. K., and Ireland on April 23 the UNESCO International Day of the Book.

Each country chooses its own list of books. In the U. S., the multi-layered selection process was basically made by independent booksellers and librarians. In the end, 25 books were chosen; each will have 40,000 special World Book Night editions printed, for a total of 1 million book giveaways by thousands of volunteers on April 23.

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the left on the classic political spectrum. The contemporary social democratic movement seeks to reform capitalism to align it with the ethical ideals of social justice while maintaining the capitalist mode of production, as opposed to creating an alternative socialist economic system. Practical modern social democratic policies include the promotion of a welfare state, and the creation of economic democracy as a means to secure workers' rights.

Historically, social democracy was a form of evolutionary reformist socialism[2] that advocated the establishment of a socialist economy through class struggle. During the early 20th century, major European social democratic parties began to reject elements of Marxism, Revolutionary socialism and class struggle, taking a moderate position that socialism could be established through political reforms. The distinction between Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism had yet to fully develop at this time. The Frankfurt Declaration of the Socialist International in 1951, attended by many social democratic parties from across the world, committed adherents to oppose Bolshevik communism and Stalinism, and to promote a gradual transformation of capitalism into socialism.