01861cam a2200325 i 4500 615933881 TxAuBib 20230327120000.0 220820s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022027151 9780593321522 HRD 30.00 0593321529 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Cohen, Roger, author Affirming flame. Columns Selections. An affirming flame [BOOK] : meditations on life and politics / Roger Cohen. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. xiii, 438 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.". During his twelve years as a columnist, Cohen aimed to hold power to account at home and abroad, in the name of freedom, decency, pluralism, and the importance of truth and dissent in open societies. He captures the fight to defend America’s openness, democratic institutions, and ideals against the rising tide of retrogression, division, and assault on truth. This struggle, as Cohen writes, is also the world’s. It is inseparable from the battle to save humanity from the creeping autocracy of the twenty-first century. This book is a collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the world. Provided by publisher. 20230327. World politics 21st century. Civilization, Modern 21st century. Journalism United States. American essays 21st century.