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How has Barack Obama done in his first term as a "progressive
president," especially in relation to his campaign assertions? This
book analyzes the performance of Obama and his administration in
promoting progressive causes in a wide range of policy areas,
including the economy, education, immigration, healthcare reform,
criminal justice, and foreign affairs. Grading the 44th President:
A Report Card on Barack Obama's First Term as a Progressive Leader
is written in clear language that is free of jargon and from a
leftist perspective, offering a comprehensive analysis and critique
of Obama's performance as a progressive president during his first
term. The authors provide in-depth analyses with respect to Obama's
handling of specific issues, including the economy, education,
healthcare, criminal justice policy, the environment, immigration,
Iraq and Afghanistan, race relations, gender issues, and
gay/lesbian issues, covering topics in detail that general
biographies of Obama and examinations of his political career miss.
This book presents clear, accessible information for general
readers, and contains in-depth discussion of topics useful to high
school, college, and university students of sociology, government,
political science, philosophy, and history.
Throughout much of the Western tradition, human subjectivity has
been regarded as a major source of error. Thus, adapting universal
standards devoid of corrosive human influences has been thought to
be a requisite for building an optimal society. This tendency,
which is predicated on social ontological realism, historically
encouraged projects of colonization, as Western standards of
development became synonymous with universal reason and
civilization. Currently, neoliberal globalization is an extension
of this realist legacy and demands all aspects of social life to be
determined by the presumably universal wisdom of the market. Yet,
in Latin America, neoliberalism has normalized extreme inequality
and cultural mutilation as innocent outcomes of market dynamics.
The present work, accordingly, draws from Alejandro Serrano
Caldera, a Nicaraguan philosopher and social critic, to critique
realism and develop an anti-realist social vision on which to build
a new type of nation, ethic, and politics grounded on human praxis.
The point is made that this anti-realist shift offers the
possibility to democratize the current process of globalization.
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