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American Contempt for Liberty
American Contempt for Liberty© 2015 Walter Williams432 pages American Contempt for Liberty caught my eye immediately, for its title alone, for I’ve had a growing suspicion that the failure of the American republic lies not only in the ever-expanding state, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged conservative, essays, libertarianism, race, Walter Williams
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Beyond Tenebrae
Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West© 2019 Brad Birzer258 pages Most people, including myself until a few years ago, would describe humanism as a worldview championing the possibility of, and the need for, humans living moral, … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Brad Birzer, Christian humanism, Christianity, conservative
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The Great Debate
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left© 2013 Yuval Levin296 pages The Great Debate uses the war of letters between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine to explain the philosophical differences between conservatism and … Continue reading
Unstoppable
Unstoppable: the Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State© 2014 Ralph Nader224 pages George Carlin groused that when he heard the word bipartisanship, he knew a larger than usual deception was in the works. Ralph Nader’s Unstoppable offers a different … Continue reading
The American Tory
The American Tory© 1972 ed. Morten Borden, Penn Borden 141 pages American colonists yearning for independence from Britain called themselves Patriots, not in opposition against the not-yet-arrived royal army, but to set their cause against that of the Loyalists. Not … Continue reading
Getting it Right
Getting it Right © 2006 William F. Buckley Jr 2003 Getting it Right is a political history disguised as a love story, both tales told amid the radically shifting political climate of America’s 1960s, as Americans … Continue reading
Look Homeward, America!
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists© 2006 Bill Kauffman250 pages “The Little Way. That is what we seek. That — contrary to the ethic of personal parking spaces, of the dollar-sign god — is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged anarchism, Bill Kauffman, biography, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, conservative, Distributism, Front Porch Reading, home, libertarianism, literature, localism, organic, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, subsidiarity
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Blacks Rednecks and White Liberals© 2005 Thomas Sowell360 pages Thomas Sowell’s provocatively-titled Black Rednecks and White Liberals casts a critical eye toward conventional understandings of race, class, and history, collecting a half-dozen extensive essays in one volume. Although each essay … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative, education, essays, Germany, historiography, Judaism, race, slavery and rebellion, Thomas Sowell
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