The paperback and Audible versions are still in the works, and I’ll be sure to let everyone know when they’re available (plus LIFE IN SHADOWS on Audible drops next week!).

The eBook is out ahead of the other versions largely because I didn’t want to keep people waiting. Yet with every battle, he gets closer to the old enemy hidden in the shadows, and the ugly truth about the war that could unravel everything Archangel might hope to win. Now he’ll be thrust into the center of events once again, pulled back and forth from covert missions to the media spotlight. These days, Tanner doesn’t aspire to win the war. For both arenas, they call upon a reluctant weapon: a frontline grunt named Tanner Malone. Faced with this grim truth, Archangel’s leaders shift their strategy to diplomacy and espionage. The star system of Archangel holds the line against invading corporate fleets, but a quarter of its territory is already lost. We talk about the history of this ideology, the consequences for American workers and how the tide may finally be starting to turn.Nobody expected the war to last three hours, let alone three years. But when the state won’t defend workers’ rights, they allow employers to subject their employees to a tyrannical form of “private government.” Freedom for the boss means servitude for the worker. She thinks her country is in the grip of free-market ideology AKA “libertarianism” AKA “classical liberalism.” According to this viewpoint, any interference by the state in the private sector is a violation of freedom. Why do freedom-loving Americans stand for this?Įlizabeth Anderson is a philosopher at Michigan State University, Ann Arbor. They tell them what to wear, what they can publicly say and even when they can take a shit. Employers can fire employees at will, impose arbitrary schedules and prevent them from forming unions. American workers have less rights and worse conditions than workers in any other developed country. They’ve got freer speech, freer access to guns and less regulation on business than any other rich country.īut they let their work bosses walk all over them.

Americans hate when the state tells them what to do.

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