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Les Miserables: Thenardier Attempts To Squeeze Valjean For More Money

Part 2, book 3, chapter 10 - the Thenardiers once again demonstrate the depths of their greed but are thwarted by Valjean
Les Miserables: The Myth of Divine Right

Part two, book one, chapter eighteen - The divine right of kings is a myth, for all of creation has in fact been imbued with divine life
Les Miserables: Waterloo and the Counter-Revolution

Part two, book one, chapter seventeen - Hugo asserts that we should see Waterloo for what it was: an attempt by the monarchy to end the revolution and reassert monarchical dominence
Les Miserables: Javert's Triumphant Justice

Part one, book eight, chapter three - Justice without mercy or love is revealed in it's hideous nobility
Les Miserables: A Strange Aside

Part one, book three, chapter five - a digression about the prefect of police and his misreading of the underclass in Paris
How Propaganda Works: Undemocratic Policies & Propaganda in the USA

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on examples he provides of undemocratic policies that are pushed forward under the cloak of propaganda.
How Propaganda Works: Plato, Democracy, & Managerial Societies

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on Plato's views of democracy and how that correlates with some of what we see today.
How Propaganda Works: The Treat Of Inequality Is Not New

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on how material inequality was seen as a central source of flawed ideology as far back as the writings of Madison.
How Propaganda Works: When Propaganda Cloaks Undemocratic Structures

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on how propaganda can be used to cloak decidedly undemocratic realities and present them as democratic.

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