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Levi Kavan writes about economics, labor, and technology for readers who want real answers instead of slogans. His work draws on political economy, labor history, and the experiences of workers navigating systems designed to keep them too busy to ask uncomfortable questions.

Before writing full-time, Levi spent years in workplaces where he saw firsthand the gap between what economics textbooks promised and what actually showed up in people's paychecks. That experience convinced him the most important political ideas were being explained badly, or not at all.

He's the author of How To Be a Democratic Socialist, Democratic Socialism, Explained, and Managed by Machine. His writing has been called "rigorous but actually readable" by people who ex ...more

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	Iran, Israel, and the Middle East Explained: Religion, Power, and the Roots of War 4.50 avg rating — 168 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Be a Democratic Socialist: The Definitive Guide To Democratic Socialism 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democratic Socialism, Explained: History, Core Ideas, and Modern Politics in Plain English 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Political Ideologies, Explained: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Populism, and More in Plain English 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economy, Explained: How Money, Debt, and Power Actually Work really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Your Wallet: Who Really Pays When Nations Fight Over Money 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Patrick’s Day & the Green Machine: How Irish Americans Built Political Power 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Profiting from Scandal: What the Jeffrey Epstein Files Reveal About Power, Protection, and the Economics of Crisis 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Propaganda, Explained: How Politicians, Pundits, and Algorithms Shape What You Think (and How to Think for Yourself) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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What the Five Major Political Ideologies Actually Want

Political ideologies are often discussed in ways that emphasize their differences from each other — the policies they disagree about, the values that divide them, the enemies each identifies in the others. This is a useful perspective for understanding political conflict. But it can obscure something equally important: each major political tradition is trying to solve a real problem, and the probl

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“Judaism produced a long line of prophets — Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elijah — whose words and actions shaped the Hebrew scriptures. Christianity accepted those prophets and added Jesus, whom it elevated beyond prophecy into divinity. Islam accepted all the previous prophets and added Muhammad, whom it declared”
― Levi Kavan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East Explained: Religion, Power, and the Roots of War

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“Jesus was a Jew, born in Roman-occupied Palestine, raised in the traditions of the Hebrew Bible.”
― Levi Kavan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East Explained: Religion, Power, and the Roots of War

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“The factory is born not as an inevitable response to technology, but as a particular social choice: to concentrate production, to reorganize labor around the machine rather than organizing the machine around labor, to achieve control through proximity and surveillance.”
― Levi Kavan, How To Be a Democratic Socialist: The Definitive Guide To Democratic Socialism

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