Stephen Kent weaves a wondrous tale merging Star Wars mythology with a set of timeless solutions to the myriad problems facing today's society.
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Reviews of How The Force Can Fix The World by Stephen Kent, featured in The Federalist and DorkSideofTheForce
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Book tour for Stephen Kent’s How The Force Can Fix The World
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Jedi tradition honored in Star Wars Visions
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The politics of Star Wars explained: Author Stephen Kent joins the show to break down the big-picture themes we can take away from Star Wars. As he explains in the upcoming book HOW THE FORCE CAN FIX THE WORLD, the Star Wars saga's "politics" aren't a partisan weapon but are really more about hope, choice, humility, empathy, redemption, balance, and fear.
What if we looked to Star Wars for more than just entertainment? How the Force Can Fix the World takes this challenge on by analyzing the core principles of the Star Wars franchise: HOPE, CHOICE, HUMILITY, EMPATHY, REDEMPTION, BALANCE and rejecting FEAR. Together, these are the Star Wars roadmap for living better lives, and maybe even fostering a better politics.
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If you want to fight (racist) "anti-racist" ideas, and the even worse pedagogy and classroom practices resulting from them in your school district, you first need to understand the jargon they're using to make their ideas sound benign (or even helpful). Tune in to this collaborative conversation to get help!
Liz Wolfe, Staff Editor at Reason, joins host Stephen Kent this week on “Right Now with Stephen Kent” to discuss legacy media’s annoyance over their inability to control conversations on apps like Clubhouse,
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Stephen Kent in lessons from Star Wars on emergency powers and government
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This show is a forum about the fight within the right over its commitment to liberalism, the ethic of accommodation, and openness," Kent said. "That tradition is under attack on the left and right. But I can't settle the left's increasingly complicated relationship with liberalism. So my focus will be on the right and building the case over time for why the liberal tradition is worth defending
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Kent's show will debut on Thursday, according to Politico, which first reported on Al Jazeera's new venture. The outlet's goal, Politico's Playbook states, is to lure "center-right folks who feel left out of mainstream media." Rightly's editor-in-chief will reportedly be Scott Norvell, a veteran of Fox News.
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Read MoreStephen Kent, a spokesman for the D.C.-based public relations firm Young Voices, told me libertarians like him have “an opportunity to drop ‘classical’ from the way we describe our liberalism and just step in as the champions of liberal thought and the open society.”
This has been in the works for some time. I’m really excited to announce that I’ve signed a deal with Center Street Publishing, part of the Hachette family, to pen a book for December 2021 titled “How The Force Can Fix The World.”
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“You still want to kill me,” Kylo says to her in his garbled robotic voice, filtered by the mask he wears. “That happens when you're being hunted by a creature in a mask,” Rey snaps back at him.
Stephen Kent thinks left-leaning pileups and hashtags like #FireGinaCarano are partially responsible for escalating tensions: “These newest tweets, expressing doubt and resentment about COVID and masks and the election, there’s nothing new here.” But, Kent added, “Gina Carano’s not making things better for conservative fans who want to feel welcome when they go to fan conventions and mingle with their fellow lovers of Star Wars. She’s not making things easier for anybody. She’s making things just dramatically more dubious and sad and divisive.”
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Basically, what Mathis-Lilley argues is that since the Republic is undone and replaced by a fascistic regime, then the Galactic Senate must be above reproach. He thus ascribes to the story of Star Wars a fawning esteem for the Galactic Senate as an avatar for pluralistic democracy.
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