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Les Miserables: Thenardier Attempts To Squeeze Valjean For More Money

Part 2, book 3, chapter 10 - the Thenardiers once again demonstrate the depths of their greed but are thwarted by Valjean
Les Miserables: Valjean Learns of Cosette's Reality

Part 2, book 3, chapter 7 - As they walk back to Montfermeil Cosette tells Valjean of her woes
Les Miserables: Cosette the Water Girl

Part two, book three, chapter one - We see Cosette and the terrible conditions she lives with in the home of the Thenardiers
Les Miserables: Jean Valjean Recaptured and Sentenced

Part two, book two, chapter one - We learn that Jean Valjean has been recaptured and sentenced to hard labor for life.
Les Miserables: Javert's Triumphant Justice

Part one, book eight, chapter three - Justice without mercy or love is revealed in it's hideous nobility
Les Miserables: Manifold Tensions

Part one, book eight, chapter two - Between Fantine, Madeliene, and the reader a braid of tensions arise that must find resolution
Les Miserables: Madeleine Speaks

Part one, book seven, chapter ten - When things look their bleakest, Madeleine stands and speaks
Les Miserables: Champmathieu before the court

Part one, book seven, chapter nine - Madeleine observes the reality of Champmathieu and the reality of the accusations against him
Les Miserables: Madeleine's Arrival in Arras

Part one, book seven, chapter seven - A six hour journey becomes a fourteen hour ordeal, but to Madeleine's surprise the trial is still actively in progress.
Les Miserables: Mercy For Fantine

Part one, book five, chapter thirteen - Fantine, Javert, & Madeleine have a defining moment together
Les Miserables: Walmart Fuccboi

Part one, book five, chapter twelve - we meet the small town offbrand equivalent of Tholomyés
Les Miserables: Fantine's Demise

Part one, book five, chapter eight - Fantine's single parent identity is uncovered and used against her.
Les Miserables: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Part one, book five, chapter seven - The impact of Javert's experience on the way he viewed reality.
Les Miserables: We Meet Javert

Part one, book five, chapter five - Everyone has a backstory, and Javert's is an important one
Les Miserables: A Dreadful Surprise

Part one, book three, chapter nine - The boys deliver their surprise and the readers get a surprise of their own from Fantine
Les Miserables: A Strange Aside

Part one, book three, chapter five - a digression about the prefect of police and his misreading of the underclass in Paris
Les Miserables: The Yellow Ticket

Part one, book two, chapter nine - a sentence served does not mean freedom in any real sense
Les Miserables: Progress and Dispensability

Part one, book two, chapter eight - an extended metaphor comparing society to a ship that sheds humans and leaves them abandoned to a dark sea of suffering
Les Miserables: A Grain Of Corn Between Two Millstones

Part one, book two, chapter seven - the dehumanizing force of a destructive and disproportionate punitive justice system
Les Miserables: A Broken Window & A Loaf of Bread

Part one, book two, chapter six - Valjean's tragic history and the reality of carceral systems
Les Miserables: We Meet The Outcast

Part one, book two, chapter one - We are slowly introduced to Jean Valjean, an outcast who can find no welcome in Digne
How Propaganda Works: Undemocratic Policies & Propaganda in the USA

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on examples he provides of undemocratic policies that are pushed forward under the cloak of propaganda.
How Propaganda Works: The Treat Of Inequality Is Not New

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on how material inequality was seen as a central source of flawed ideology as far back as the writings of Madison.
How Propaganda Works: Inequality, Flawed Ideology, & Propaganda

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on how inequalites in a democracy lead to flawed ideologies & those provide a fertile ground for the production and proliferation of propoganda.

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