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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, news spread
about Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page document published by the
conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. The debates—and
anxiety—surrounding this initiative have only increased as authors of
the Project assume positions of power in the second Trump
administration.
So, what is Project 2025, exactly? Who wrote it, what does it actually
say, and what does it mean for everyday people around the world, across
the political spectrum, in the years to come?
In The Project, award-winning journalist David A. Graham offers
much-needed context and distills the essential elements of this
sprawling document. Breaking down the Project’s strategy for
transforming—and radically empowering—the executive branch, Graham then
explains what the architects behind Project 2025 would do with that
power: restoring traditional gender norms and the supremacy of the
nuclear family, decimating the civil service, performing mass
deportations, reducing corporate regulation and worker protections, and
more.
Project 2025 is the intellectual blueprint for the new administration,
Graham argues, and its tenets should not be legible only to policy
wonks. Authoritative yet highly accessible, The Project demystifies it
for those whose lives it will impact most.
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we grasp the scope and range of the domain, as it were, of our
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