What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in "ordered
liberty"? The liberal's answer is that America has failed to live
up to its full promise of inclusiveness and equality--likely the
result of corporate greed and white male ruling elites. The
mainstream conservative or libertarian reply points to the Warren
Court, the 1960s, or a loss of Constitutional rectitude.
Christopher Ferrara, in Liberty, the God That Failed, offers an
entirely different answer. In a counter-narrative of unique power
and scope, he unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty
guaranteed, a chimera. In his telling, the false god of a new
political order--Liberty--was born in thought long before America's
founding, and gained increasing devotion as it slowly amassed power
during the first century of the nation's existence. Today it
reveals its full might, as we bear the weight of its oppressive
decrees, and experience the emptiness of the secular order it
imposes upon us.
The secular state has constructed a "myth of religious
violence" to mask its own violent origins and ongoing displays of
force. Ferrara destroys this myth with a relentless uncovering of
truths hidden by both liberal and conservative/libertarian accounts
of what has gone wrong. In this brilliant retelling of American
history and political life, the author asks us to open our eyes to
harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly
ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours.
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