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The Closing of the Liberal Mind - How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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The Closing of the Liberal Mind - How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Loot Price R374
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A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a
Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes
surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it
is becoming its opposite-illiberalism-abandoning the precepts of
open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and
the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and becoming
instead an intolerant, rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors
dissent and stifles free speech. Tracing the new illiberalism
historically to the radical Enlightenment, a movement that rejected
the classic liberal ideas of the moderate Enlightenment that were
prominent in the American Founding, Holmes argues that today's
liberalism has forsaken its American roots, incorporating instead
the authoritarian, anti-clerical, and anti-capitalist prejudices of
the radical and largely European Left. The result is a closing of
the American liberal mind. Where once freedom of speech and
expression were sacrosanct, today liberalism employs speech codes,
trigger warnings, boycotts, and shaming rituals to stifle freedom
of thought, expression, and action. It is no longer appropriate to
call it liberalism at all, but illiberalism-a set of ideas in
politics, government, and popular culture that increasingly
reflects authoritarian and even anti-democratic values, and which
is devising new strategies of exclusiveness to eliminate certain
ideas and people from the political process. Although illiberalism
has always been a temptation for American liberals, lurking in the
radical fringes of the Left, it is today the dominant ideology of
progressive liberal circles. This makes it a new danger not only to
the once venerable tradition of liberalism, but to the American
nation itself, which needs a viable liberal tradition that pursues
social and economic equality while respecting individual liberties.
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