num_pages: 256
description: 'To guide us all through the three-star disasters of the Bush years I can think of no better pilot.' Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch
language: English
title: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
titlecomplete: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
characters: Gideon Levy, Ahmed Chalabi, Joseph Stalin, Plato, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Shahak, Mikhail Bakunin, Rudy Giuliani, David Ricardo, Danny Rubinstein, Allan Nairn, Robert Fisk, Robert Barry, Daniel Defoe, Noam Chomsky, Samuel P. Huntington, John Pilger, Paul Bairoch, Bertrand Russell, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ali Alatas, Bob Hawke, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, McGeorge Bundy, Hanan Ashrawi, Henry Kissinger, George Junus Aditjondro, Chaim Weizmann, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Robert McNamara, Suharto, Alexander Hamilton, Alan Clark, Golda Meir, René Descartes, José Ramos-Horta, Douglas Hurd, Martin Indyk, Anwar Sadat, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Adam Smith, philosopher, Ariel Sharon, Amira Hass, Saddam Hussein, John Locke, Aristotle (philosopher), Jimmy Carter, Meron Benvenisti, Pete Peterson, C. Fred Bergsten, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, David Hume, Alexander Cockburn, Alex Carey, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Charles Glass, Andrew Jackson, Robert Boyle, James Baker, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Yasser Arafat, Soekarno, Paul Volcker, Amy Goodman, David Lloyd George, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan, Benny Morris, Manuel Noriega, John von Neumann, William Morris, Yitzhak Shamir, Colin Powell, Thomas Hobbes, Edward S. Herman, Moshe Dayan, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Henry Cabot Lodge, Newt Gingrich, Alexis de Tocqueville, Daniel Dennett, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thomas Friedman, John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, Dean Acheson, Shimon Peres, George Ball, Aluf Benn, Leon Trotsky, Woodrow Wilson, John Major, Mario Benedetti, Yacov Ben Efrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Orwell
genres: Political Science, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Social Science, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 339
places: Israel, Jerusalem, Gaza
publisher: Pluto Press