Efficiently Careless:
The Perils of Privatization

By Frye Gaillard

The Fox in the Henhouse:
How Privatization Threatens Democracy

by Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 320 pp, $14.95.

Activist Si Kahn and educator Elizabeth Minnich have issued a strong and courageous warning in their new book, The Fox in the Henhouse. In many ways, the title doesn't do it justice, for a phrase so familiar doesn't quite convey the original analysis that's contained in the pages.

Essentially, Kahn and Minnich contend that we are living in a time of competing world views - not between the forces of freedom and terror, or Islam and the West, but rather a cleavage in our own society that very few people have been able to grasp. In this blunt and readable book, the authors have succeeded, arguing persuasively that the powerful forces of privatization - multinational corporations whose only motivation is the bottom line - have taken over more and more of our lives.

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