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The Spirit of '76 Café: A Global Revolutionary Journey to Reclaim Our Democracy
Paperback
PhilosophyRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the democratic experiment is fracturing. Authoritarianism is rising, algorithms are mimicking consciousness, and millions of displaced people are treated as legal ghosts.
In this sweeping culmination of his civic pentalogy, Christopher Phillips takes the foundational DNA of the American republic and the tests it against the realities of the 21st century.
Moving beyond the comfort of the classroom, Phillips embarks on a global odyssey of Socratic inquiry. From the marble ruins of the Ancient faith-based migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez, and from the deep server farms of Iceland to the threatened rivers of the Brazilian Amazon, he gathers everyday citizens to wrestle with the most urgent questions of our time:
- The Paradox of Borders: How do we protect the absolute rights of the individual without sacrificing the general welfare?
- The Cradle and the Torch: How do ordinary people here and abroad-from the well-to-do to the marginalized, and everyone in between-push back against the encroaching darkness brought on by authoritarianss?
- The Expanding Circle: Does liberty belong exclusively to adult humans, or must we expand the circle of sovereignty to include the youth who will inherit the earth and the ecosystems that sustain it?
Far more than a philosophical treatise, The Spirit of 76 Café A Global Revolutionary Journey to Reclaim Our Democracy is a blueprint for action. It is a passionate, urgent demand to strip off our complacency, embrace the agonizing friction of genuine self-governance, and commit to the unglamorous labor of tending the fire of liberty. The journey of this book will challenge everything you think you know about citizenship. The work of expanding the circle of equality has only just begun.
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