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Mortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David
Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more
than twenty years ago. It completes the account of his life from
where the first book left off to his seventy-eighth year. In
contrast to Radical Son whose focus was his political odyssey,
Mortality and Faith was conceived as a meditation on age, and on
our common progress towards an end which is both final and opaque.
These primal facts affect all we see and do, and force us to answer
the questions as to why we are here and where we are going with
conjectures that can only be taken on faith. Consequently, an
equally important theme of this work is its exploration of the
beliefs we embrace to answer these questions, and how the answers
impact our lives.
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after
the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the
1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting
millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's
nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one
hundred years later, the pent-up anger of white Americans left
behind by a changing economy has once again directed itself at
immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential
election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing
backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism
to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans
in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was
increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor.
Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a
message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural
resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of
the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show
how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of
circumstances. White Americans' experience of declining privilege
and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that
overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing
offers a rigorous and lucid explanation for a recurrent phenomenon
in American history, with important lessons about the origins of
our alarming political climate.
The populist radical right is one of the most studied political
phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and
thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together
the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary
populist radical right in western democracies. It has a broad
regional and topical focus and includes work that has made an
original theoretical contribution to the field, which make them
less time-specific. The reader is organized in six thematic
sections: (1) ideology and issues; (2) parties, organizations, and
subcultures; (3) leaders, members, and voters; (4) causes; (5)
consequences; and (6) responses. Each section features a short
introduction by the editor, which introduces and ties together the
selected pieces and provides discussion questions and suggestions
for further readings. The reader is ended with a conclusion in
which the editor reflects on the future of the populist radical
right in light of (more) recent political developments - most
notably the Greek economic crisis and the refugee crisis - and
suggest avenues for future research.
Radical right-wing populist parties, such as Geert Wilders' Party
for Freedom, Marine Le Pen's National Front or Nigel Farage's UKIP,
are becoming increasingly influential in Western European
democracies. Their electoral support is growing, their impact on
policy-making is substantial, and in recent years several radical
right-wing populist parties have assumed office or supported
minority governments. Are these developments the cause and/or
consequence of the mainstreaming of radical right-wing populist
parties? Have radical right-wing populist parties expanded their
issue profiles, moderated their policy positions, toned down their
anti-establishment rhetoric and shed their extreme right
reputations to attract more voters and/or become coalition
partners? This timely book answers these questions on the basis of
both comparative research and a wide range of case studies,
covering Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the
Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Analysing
the extent to which radical right-wing populist parties have become
part of mainstream politics, as well as the factors and conditions
which facilitate this trend, this book is essential reading for
students and scholars working in European politics, in addition to
anyone interested in party politics and current affairs more
generally.
Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of
Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant
philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted in the
traditions of classical philosophy, illuminates a number of
current, controversial issues. The book takes a chronological
approach and aims to show how Nussbaum's thought has continually
grown and developed. It takes the reader through her views on
ethics, political philosophy, feminism and women's rights, LGBT
issues, animal rights, religious tolerance and accommodation,
contemporary politics, and global justice. It also explores
contested areas of her thought, such as the extent to which she is
a perfectionist liberal, challenges to her view that religion
merits special accommodations, utilitarian objections to the
capabilities approach, criticisms of her brand of liberal feminism,
and cosmopolitan objections to her nation-state-based liberal
conception of global justice. Each chapter focuses on a book from a
different stage of her career, starting with her first book, The
Fragility of Goodness and ending with her most recent, The
Cosmopolitan Tradition.
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John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs
and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a
mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most
well respected thinkers and political theorists.
Gray wrote Enlightenment's Wake in 1995 - six years after the
fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center. Turning his back on neoliberalism at
exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp,
trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable
spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice
of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead
ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem
obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment's Wake shows,
John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years - the
rest of us are only now catching up with him.
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way up from earning minimum wage to running an international
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capitalist spirit can lift everyone to success. In 2016, the
American people faced a stark choice between two very different
presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton spent most of her adult
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progressive legacy of President Barack Obama who had first won the
White House on promises to "spread the wealth around." Donald
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unapologetic capitalist, used his own personal wealth as
inspiration, and promised simply to "Make America Great Again." By
choosing Trump over Clinton, the American people put a stop to
decades of government expansion under progressive leadership, and
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the more prosperous our citizens, the more our whole society could
in turn prosper. But leftist forces in the United States have been
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an evil motivation fit only for greedy plutocrats. Andrew Puzder
understands this first-hand after a progressive smear campaign
stopped him from joining President Trump's cabinet. As Puzder
explains in his new book, THE CAPITALIST COMEBACK, this was an act
of desperation from a left wing facing irrelevance with a
pro-business president in the White House. From its roots in the
Progressive Era to labor unions to education to entertainment to
its political resurgence with avowed socialist candidates such as
Bernie Sanders, Puzder traces the development of the anti-profit
forces in the United States and shows how, under President Trump,
they can be vanquished for good.
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the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to
America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher.
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Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural
rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by
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the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement.
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predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by
Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the
Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to the
alt-right, giving vital perspective on the emergence of a group
whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant
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methods, and its core belief in white identity politics. The book
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nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies
such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and
even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right's use of
offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in
animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult
to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and
a careful study of the alt-right's influential texts, Hawley is
able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees
with liberalism but fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of
American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right's growing
influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of
its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement's
radicalism.
An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return
to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the
simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people
around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defense of 'true
liberalism' as opposed to its well-meaning rivals on the left and
the right. Erudite, but marvelously accessible and written in a
style that is at once colloquial and astringent."-Stanley Fish The
greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre
McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back.
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accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing
the ideas first espoused by eighteenth-century philosophers like
Locke, Smith, Voltaire, and Wollstonecraft is good for everyone.
With her trademark wit and deep understanding, McCloskey shows how
the adoption of Enlightenment ideals of liberalism has propelled
the freedom and prosperity that define the quality of a full life.
In her view, liberalism leads to equality, but equality does not
necessarily lead to liberalism. Liberalism is an optimistic
philosophy that depends on the power of rhetoric rather than
coercion, and on ethics, free speech, and facts in order to thrive.
Michael Savage predicted the chaos that is Obama's legacy. Now he
tells us whether the destruction can be stopped!The prophetic
author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is
back with his most urgent and powerful work. Listeners to Dr.
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be an articulate and engaged spokesman for traditional American
values of borders, language, and culture.Now, after eight divisive
years of Barack Obama, Dr. Savage lays out an irrefutable case for
how our nation has been undermined by terrorists from without, by
anarchists from within, by a president and politicians with
contempt for the Constitution and the law, and by a complicit
liberal media.With words and topics that are as insightful as they
are timely, he makes an ironclad case for the dangers we face from
Hillary Clinton and her fellow travelers in the progressive
movement. He also explains why Donald Trump may be one of the two
best hopes for America's future as we try to regain control of our
government, our country, and our national soul.The other hope? As
Dr. Savage explains in some of his most heartfelt and passionate
words, it is we, the people: the ordinary "Eddies," as he calls
them-motivated, roused, and engaged.This book is about much more
than an election. It is a veteran commentator and celebrated
raconteur providing a blueprint for how to regain our cherished
freedoms and our national identity . . . before they are lost
forever.
From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge,
Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as
integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known
personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and
publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of
the little-known first generation. Beginning in the late 1940s,
activists working in media emerged as leaders of the American
conservative movement. They not only started an array of
enterprises-publishing houses, radio programs, magazines, book
clubs, television shows-they also built the movement. They
coordinated rallies, founded organizations, ran political
campaigns, and mobilized voters. While these media activists
disagreed profoundly on tactics and strategy, they shared a belief
that political change stemmed not just from ideas but from
spreading those ideas through openly ideological communications
channels. In Messengers of the Right, Nicole Hemmer explains how
conservative media became the institutional and organizational
nexus of the conservative movement, transforming audiences into
activists and activists into a reliable voting base. Hemmer also
explores how the idea of liberal media bias emerged, why
conservatives have been more successful at media activism than
liberals, and how the right remade both the Republican Party and
American news media. Messengers of the Right follows broadcaster
Clarence Manion, book publisher Henry Regnery, and magazine
publisher William Rusher as they evolved from frustrated outsiders
in search of a platform into leaders of one of the most significant
and successful political movements of the twentieth century.
Thumb through the index of any study of the Thatcher years and you
will come across the name of Sir Alfred Sherman. In her memoirs
Lady Thatcher herself pays tribute to his ?brilliance?, the ?force
and clarity of his mind?, his ?breadth of reading and his skills as
a ruthless polemicist?. She credits him with a central role in her
achievements. Born in 1919 in London's East End, until 1948 Sherman
was a Communist and fought in the Spanish Civil War. But he ended
up a free- market crusader. Sherman examines the origins and
development of ?Thatcherism?, but concludes that it was an
?interlude? and that the post-war consensus remains largely
unscathed.
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party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old
ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump,
France too has seen a growing audience for identity-based politics.
Under 'Marine', the FN is enjoying unprecedented success. But
what's her secret? This is a probing investigation into the
philosophy of Marine Le Pen's FN. It seeks answers in her speeches,
in the history of French nationalism and in revealing interviews
with those on the far right--including Jean-Marie Le Pen himself.
Michel Eltchaninoff exposes a vision of France tyrannised by
liberalism and seduced by the offer of an uncompromising
alternative: a Republic 'beyond Left and Right', defined by its
enemies and aligned with Putin's Russia. Whatever Marine Le Pen is
thinking, she has not forgotten the FN's roots. The French far
right is now stronger than ever.
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