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Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
and present danger to the future of liberty.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
What did the dead Joan of Arc hear? Insight or delusion? Next week he’ll tell his undergrads about Durkheim, Foucault, crypto-normativity: How reason is just another weapon of control. How the invention of the reasonable, the acceptable, the sane, even the human, is greener and more recent than humans suspect.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Politically Incorrect Guides)
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