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This collection of research explores the relationship between the
Conservative party and British society since 1880 by focusing on
the key themes of ideology, national identity, gender and policy.
The focus of the text is not so much on the Conservative party as
an institution, as on the party's wider significance in British
political culture. It seeks to explain the Conservatives
extraordinary electoral success in this period and asserts that
this success was both problematic and historically contingent. Part
one of this study addresses the question of conservative ideology;
part two analyzes the role of national identity in Conservative
discourse and policy; part three assesses how Conservatives
negotiated the gendered nature of popular politics both before and
after the arrival of the equal franchise, and part four examines
how Conservative understanding of the relationship between state
and society were translated into specific aspects of social and
economic policy.
Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession,
depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our
current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip
Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can
tackle the problems we face.Red Toryism combines economic
egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the
monopolisation of society and the private sphere by the state and
the market. Decrying the legacy of both the Labour and Conservative
parties, Blond proposes a genuinely progressive Conservatism that
will restore social equality and revive British culture. He calls
for the strengthening of local communities and economies, ending
dispossession, redistribution of the tax burden and restoration the
nuclear family.Red Tory offers a different vision for our future
and asks us to question our long-held political assumptions. No
political thinker has aroused more passionate debate in recent
times. Phillip Blond's ideas have already been praised or attacked
in every major British newspaper and journal. Challenging,
stimulating and exhilarating, this is a book for our times.
Popular radio host and conservative legal and political commentator
Jordan
Sekulow offers an action plan that will bring real change to government
and
help secure the future of our nation.
The next red wave is coming: November 3, 2020.
We face battles on many fronts. The Deep State bureaucracy will stop at
nothing to
undermine the conservative agenda, even when that's the agenda chosen
by the
American voter. The liberal bureaucracy will continue to work alongside
former liberal
government officials from, yes, the Obama Administration and Team
Clinton. In this
election, the Left's prized goal - exclusively - will be defeating
President Donald Trump
by whatever means necessary.
A red wave that surpasses the turnout and figures of the historic 2016
election will be
the only way to win. Our opponents won't be caught off guard by
President Trump
again. I promise you, the DNC and liberal activists organizations began
working on
plans to defeat President Trump in 2020 before he was even inaugurated
in 2017. In
fact, we have evidence of FBI officials attempting to undermine
President Trump as he
was preparing to take the Oath of Office.
So-called "progressives" and the radical Left relentlessly force their
liberal agenda on
the American people. Even when Republican majorities control both
houses of
Congress, the deck can feel stacked against us. The confirmation
hearings for Justice
Kavanaugh are a good reminder about the chaos liberals can cause even
when they
are in the minority. Now, Democrats control the House of
Representatives while
Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Senate.
We deserve better. All Americans deserve better.
We deserve politicians who keep their promises. The only way to force
action and hold
our elected officials accountable is to know the issues and engage the
political
process. But it's more than just fulfilling our civic duty at the
ballot box. It's being
actively engaged in public discourse in between elections. Battles -
important battles -
are won far more often in the court of public opinion than in any
federal courtroom.
These battles affect our lives every single day.
It's time to fight back and come together to generate the next red
wave. We can't wait
another moment. Now is the time to do it. It really is up to us. The
clock is ticking.
'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The
New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though half the
population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas
such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to
different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another
viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics and religion?
Jonathan Haidt reveals that we often find it hard to get along
because our minds are hardwired to be moralistic, judgemental and
self-righteous. He explores how morality evolved to enable us to
form communities, and how moral values are not just about justice
and equality - for some people authority, sanctity or loyalty
matter more. Morality binds and blinds, but, using his own
research, Haidt proves it is possible to liberate ourselves from
the disputes that divide good people.
The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in
American politics, the popularity of programs such as
"thirtysomething" and "Dynasty" on network television, and the
increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control
in American living rooms. In "Seeing Through the Eighties," Jane
Feuer critically examines this most aesthetically complex and
politically significant period in the history of American
television in the context of the prevailing conservative
ideological climate. With wit, humor, and an undisguised
appreciation of TV, she demonstrates the richness of this
often-slighted medium as a source of significance for cultural
criticism and delivers a compelling decade-defining analysis of our
most recent past.
With a cast of characters including Michael, Hope, Elliot, Nancy,
Melissa, and Gary; Alexis, Krystle, Blake, and all the other
Carringtons; not to mention Maddie and David; even Crockett and
Tubbs, Feuer smoothly blends close readings of well-known programs
and analysis of television's commercial apparatus with a
thorough-going theoretical perspective engaged with the work of
Baudrillard, Fiske, and others. Her comparative look at Yuppie TV,
Prime Time Soaps, and made-for-TV-movie Trauma Dramas reveals the
contradictions and tensions at work in much prime-time programming
and in the frustrations of the American popular consciousness.
"Seeing Through the Eighties" also addresses the increased
commodification of both the producers and consumers of television
as a result of technological innovations and the introduction of
new marketing techniques. Claiming a close relationship between
television and the cultures that create and view it, Jane Feuer
sees the eighties through televison while seeing through television
in every sense of the word.
The theme of "The Great Divide" is that the populations of the
democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are
becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing
ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and
conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in the
concept of liberal democracy itself, and the resulting divide is
now so wide that those holding to either philosophy on a whole
range of topics: on democracy, on reason, on abortion, on human
nature, on homosexuality and gay marriage, on freedom, on the role
of courts ... and much more, can barely speak with each other
without outrage (the favorite emotional response from all sides).
Clearly, civil conversation at the surface has been failing -- and
that could mean democracy is failing.
This book is an effort to deepen the conversation. It is written
for the non-specialist, and aims to reveal the less obvious
underlying ideological forces and misconceptions that cause the
conflict and outrage at the surface -- not with any expectation the
clash of values will evaporate, but rather that a deeper
understanding will generate a more intelligent and civil
conversation.
As an aid to understanding, the book contains a handful of Tables
directly comparing modern liberal and conservative views across a
range of fundamental moral and political "issues" so that curious
readers can answer the book's main question: "Where Do You Stand?"
An interesting result in testing this exercise has been the number
of people who find they "think" one way, but "live" another.
In the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, the radical right has gained
significant popularity, characterized by a rhetoric of xenophobia,
discrimination and "hate speech". This book examines why the
politics of hate and ideologies of the far-right are on the rise
and argues that to counter it we must challenge the sense of social
and economic precarity this politics feeds off. Hate in Precarious
Times examines five distinct types of precarity, covering threats
to a particular way of life; fear of apocalyptic terrorism; the
insecurity of austerity, and low-waged jobs in the wake of the
Financial Crisis; challenges to privilege; and the spread of
disinformation in a "post-truth" age. In this book, Neal Curtis
seeks the root of what causes ordinary people to identify with
far-right ideologies and asks what can be done to counter the
conditions underpinning this.
"The mainstream media's obsessive hatred for President Trump
outruns his anti-media fixation by a country mile, argues this
evenhanded and incisive study of press relations with the Trump
administration." -Publishers Weekly "`Defiance Disorder': Another
new book describes chaos in Trump's White House" -Ashley Parker,
Washington Post According to the media, Donald Trump could never
become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't
be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war-and
as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling
author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and former
Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning expose of how
supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trump's success, have
moved into the opposing camp. Kurtz's exclusive, in-depth,
behind-the-scenes interviews with reporters, anchors, and insiders
within the Trump White House reveal the unprecedented hostility
between the media and the president they cover. In Media Madness,
you'll learn: Why White House strategist Steve Bannon told Trump he
is in danger of being impeached How the love-hate relationship
between the president and Morning Joe hosts-Joe Scarborough and
Mika Brzezinski-turned entirely to hate How Kellyanne Conway felt
betrayed by journalists who befriended her-and how she fought back
How elite, mainstream news reporters-named and quoted-openly
express their blatant contempt for Trump How Bannon tried to block
short-lived Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci-and why
Trump soured on him How Ivanka and Jared Kushner aren't the
liberals the pundits want them to be-and why Trump tried to
discourage them from joining the White House Why Trump believes
some journalists harbor hatred for him-and how some liberals
despise his voters How Trump is a far more pragmatic politician
than the press often acknowledges (and how the press dismisses his
flip-flops when he flops their way) What Trump got wrong about
Charlottesville-and how Steve Bannon predicted the debacle How the
media consistently overreached on the Russian "collusion" scandal
Why Trump actually likes journalists, secretly meets with them, and
allows the press unprecedented access Why Reince Priebus couldn't
do his job-and the real reason he left the White House How Sean
Spicer privately berated journalists for bad reporting-and why he
and Kellyanne Conway were relentlessly attacked by the media Never
before has there been such an eye-opening, shocking look at what
the White House and the media think about each other. It's not
pretty. But it also makes for the most important political book of
the year.
The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive
biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the
great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A
TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW
STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did Margaret Thatcher
change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female
leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who
won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find
herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore's full account,
based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and
her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in
office, her combative retirement and the controversy that
surrounded her even in death. It includes the Fall of the Berlin
Wall which she had fought for and the rise of the modern EU which
she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and
reveals the truth about her political assassination. Moore's
three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime
minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the
victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability
of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the
full, enthralling story.
What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties
in Latin America? What does this augur for the stable
representation of the propertied and socially privileged in
political parties? In "Class and Conservative Parties, " Edward L.
Gibson examines these questions in light of Latin America's long
legacies of authoritarianism and democratic instability.
Gibson explores these questions theoretically, historically and
comparatively. He develops an approach to the comparative study of
conservative parties that sheds new theoretical light on the social
dynamics of party politics. Historically, he traces the
determinants of conservative party development in Argentina,
providing a rich analysis of how interactions between
conservatism's elite "core constituencies," party leaders, and the
state shaped the rise and fall of conservative parties in the 19th
and 20th centuries. Gibson also presents a comparative examination
of conservative party politics in Latin America during the 1980s
and 1990s and offers a thoughtful look ahead to conservatism's
future in the region.
The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad
ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a
nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed
the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human
decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach
that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society.
Though the constitutional design of the presidency has seen
political outsiders rise to the office of the presidency before and
maintain stability, never before has a candidate so alien to
political norms risen to the highest office. The presidency of
Donald Trump represents the most significant challenge in the
history of the United States to whether the constitutional design
and boundaries on the office of the presidency can survive the test
of an occupant who is antithetical to everything in its past. The
editors and their contributors highlight how Trump's actions
present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully
exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances
and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects
of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office. The Unorthodox
Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The
first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US
elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential
election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism
that helped him get elected. The second section focuses on the how
the election results and the associated political context have
affected President Trump's opportunity to govern and the effect
Trump has had on US political institutions: the legislative branch,
the federal courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and organized
interest groups. The final section examines Trump and public
policy, with a focus on his disruptive version of foreign policy
and his use of the domestic budget as a political football, such as
the constitutionally questionable sequestration and redirection of
budgetary funds provided for defense to the building of the border
wall and his penchant for deficit spending that was kicked into
overdrive with the COVID-19 stimulus package, making Trump the
greatest deficit spender in the history of the republic.
Can libertarians care about social justice? In "Free Market
Fairness," John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing
simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty
such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John
Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This
theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited
government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike
traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are
best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency
but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. At the same time, he
encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen
more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the
importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. In
place of the familiar social democratic interpretations of social
justice, Tomasi offers a "market democratic" conception of social
justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market
fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair
distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior
account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a
distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in
America's founding period, that protection of property and
promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed,
according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice,
American style.
Provocative and vigorously argued, "Free Market Fairness" offers
a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and
justice--one that will challenge readers on both the left and
right.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 A cultural history of how
white men exploited the image of the Vietnam veteran to roll back
civil rights and restake their claim on the nation. “If war among
the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks,” Frederick
Douglass asked in 1875, peering into the nation’s future, “what
will peace among the whites bring?” The answer then and now,
after civil war and civil rights: a white reunion disguised as a
veterans’ reunion. How White Men Won the Culture Wars
shows how a broad contingent of white men––conservative and
liberal, hawk and dove, vet and nonvet––transformed the Vietnam
War into a staging ground for a post–civil rights white racial
reconciliation. Conservatives could celebrate white vets as
raceless embodiments of the nation. Liberals could treat them as
minoritized heroes whose voices must be heard. Erasing Americans of
color, Southeast Asians, and women from the war, white men with
stories of vets on their mind could agree, after civil rights and
feminism, that they had suffered and deserved more. From the
POW/MIA and veterans’ mental health movements to Rambo and
“Born in the U.S.A.,” they remade their racial identities for
an age of color blindness and multiculturalism in the image of the
Vietnam vet. No one wins in a culture war—except, Joseph Darda
argues, white men dressed in army green.
For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern
the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to
America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher.
Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of
majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events
in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the
Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution,
gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world
history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government,
religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two
centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, America has
become an administrative state, just as destructive trends have
overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous
executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress
has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the
executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the
intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like
James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that
pre-exist government, and the progressivism first advanced by
Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse
America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling,
and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by
millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an
extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated
political writers.
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