I am finishing up a new book and am seeking suggestions for a snappy title.<\/p>\n
The book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essays deal with the political sanction for mass killing, the fraud of idealism, how truth is perverted in Washington, why power corrupts, Leviathan-loving intellectuals, the fatal myths of democracy, and other cheery topics. My tentative title is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Principles & Paradigms: How Politicians Con Citizens Into Submission.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But my hunch is that the title could be better.<\/p>\n
Ideally, the title would be both hard hitting and zippety. In the past, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been a pushover for alliteration (Fair Trade Fraud, Farm Fiasco, Bush Betrayal, Terrorism & Tyranny). Alternatively, the title would be a phrase that sticks in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s memories – such as Lost Rights, Freedom in Chains, or Attention Deficit Democracy. <\/p>\n
The person who suggests the winning title will receive $100 and will be mentioned in the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acknowledgments. (Second prize is two mentions in the acknowledgments).<\/p>\n
Send suggestions to jim@jimbovard.com<\/p>\n
Thanks for the help! I am finishing up a new book and am seeking suggestions for a snappy title. The book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essays deal with the political sanction for mass killing, the fraud of idealism, how truth is perverted in Washington, why power corrupts, Leviathan-loving intellectuals, the fatal myths of democracy, and other cheery topics. My tentative title is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Principles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJim Bovard
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\nUPDATE: Thanks to everyone who is suggesting titles. <\/strong> I really appreciate the time and thought that folks are putting into their title proposals. Some fine zesty stuff here! 2\/16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"