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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 4.48 avg rating — 105 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
	Democratic Socialism, Explained: History, Core Ideas, and Modern Politics in Plain English 4.46 avg rating — 13 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 3.75 avg rating — 16 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
	Political Ideologies, Explained: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Populism, and More in Plain English 4.80 avg rating — 5 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
	Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Your Wallet: Who Really Pays When Nations Fight Over Money 4.50 avg rating — 2 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 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
	Managed By Machine: A Socialist Guide to AI and the Future of Work really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
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How Public Opinion Gets Manufactured — and Why It's Harder Than It Looks

The manufacture of public opinion has been a concern of democratic theory since Walter Lippmann first articulated the worry in the 1920s. The core anxiety is that in mass democracies, ordinary citizens lack the time, expertise, and information to form independent judgments about complex policy questions, making them susceptible to manipulation by those …

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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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