Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individual and the abstraction of our membership in the state."-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individual and the abstraction of our membership in the state."-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individual and the abstraction of our membership in the state."-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily observable human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory."-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
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1. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
By: Rod Dreher
3.80
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative col… read more
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"To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
"Once, during my Catholic days, I was complaining with a Catholic friend about how terrible the teaching was in parish life. A priest listening to us said that everything we griped about was true, but…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
"We live liturgically, telling our sacred Story in worship and song. We fast and we feast. We marry and give our children in marriage, and though in exile, we work for the peace of the city. We welcom…"-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
2. A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
By: Mencius Moldbug , None
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
This provocative volume contains a concentrated dose of Unqualified Reservations, the ultimate poli… read more
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3. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
By: Neil Postman
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more
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4. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
By: James Burnham
4.31
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more
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"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
5. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
By: Christopher Lasch
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts hav… read more
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6. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
By: Charles Murray
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Losing Groundand The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows… read more
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7. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
8. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
By: Martin Gurri
3.16
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Riding a tsunami of information, the public has trampled on the temples of authority in every domai… read more
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9. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more
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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
10. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
11. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
12. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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13. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
14. Conservatism: A Rediscovery
By: Yoram Hazony
4.34
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The idea that American conservatism is identical to classical liberalism--widely held since the 196… read more
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15. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right
By: Matthew Rose
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial mo… read more
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16. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
By: Christopher Caldwell
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more
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17. The Case for Christian Nationalism
By: Stephen Wolfe
3.51
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical elites and the progressive media complex want you to think that Christian nationalism i… read more
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18. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
By: Ross Douthat
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele… read more
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"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have …"-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
19. Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
By: R.R. Reno
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
With compelling insight, R. R. Reno argues that we are witnessing the return of the “strong gods”—t… read more
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20. Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty ― and What to Do About It
By: Sohrab Ahmari
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that le… read more
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21. The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
By: Ivan Krastev
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, ho… read more
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