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Book Synopsis‘A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store.’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ‘Excellent ... In the face of countries such as China and Russia challenging the US-led international order, Neumann’s book is a plea to Western countries to acknowledge their mistakes ― but not to abandon the very values that have inspired others around the world.’ Emma Sky, author of The Unravelling The West has fatally overestimated itself. What does this mean for the world? Over the last thirty years, through a mixture of naivety and arrogance, the West has lost its global advantage. Today’s challenges are profound: climate change, polarisation in society, and tensions with Russia and China. Instead of a liberal world order, a new world disorder has emerged. Yet the triumph of the West had seemed unstoppable not that long ago. After the end of the Cold War, the democratic market economy took hold in the former Eastern Bloc, Russia went from being an enemy to a partner, and even China turned to capitalism. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that shook the world. The War on Terror destabilised an entire region; the Arab Spring only brought forth new autocracies; and, following the annexation of Crimea, the confrontation with Russia intensified. The West is under pressure, and it has only itself to blame. It’s time for a new start: modernity must become sustainable if it is to survive. Peter R. Neumann, an internationally acclaimed expert on terrorism and geopolitics, uncovers the mistakes that led to our present situation and sets out the dangers the world will face if the West fails to reinvent itself.Trade Review‘This is a lucid and immensely readable analysis of how our current polycrisis emerged, less from malign intent than from a failure to understand humanity as it is, not as we wish it was. Showing how there are fundamental differences of perspective and no global agreement on how societies should be run, it goes beyond despondency to provide an impressive, evidence-based argument for geopolitical pluralism.’ -- John, Lord Alderdice, Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and Executive Chairman of the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford‘The New World Disorder presents a concise and highly readable description of how the West went from post-Cold War triumph to its current despair. In this compelling book, Peter Neumann issues a powerful call for the West not only to recognise its mistakes, but also to renew itself and live up to its ideals.’ -- Daniel L. Byman, Director and Professor of the Security Studies Program, Georgetown University, and author of Spreading Hate‘A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store.’ -- Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads‘The New World Disorder is a great piece of work. In the face of countries such as China and Russia challenging the US-led international order, Neumann’s book is a plea to Western countries to acknowledge their mistakes — but not to abandon the very values that have inspired others around the world.’ -- Emma Sky, author of The Unravelling‘Peter Neumann provides an incisive tour d’horizon of the mistakes and failures of the past three decades that have divided and weakened the West and undermined its liberal ideals. With clarity and concision, The New World Disorder explains both why this has happened and what can be done to reverse it.’ -- Bruce Hoffman, author of God, Guns, and SeditionPraise for Bluster: Donald Trump's war on terror: ‘In this important book, Neumann argues that Donald Trump has undermined counterterrorism efforts by conflating terrorism with immigration and emboldening the far right at home while torching the United States’ soft power around the world. A timely, persuasive, and utterly devastating critique of Trump’s role in America’s longest war.’ -- Erica Chenoweth, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard UniversityPraise for Radicalised: ‘Neumann, basing his work on research by his International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College, London, suggests that under “aggressive containment,” ISIS will collapse under its own contradictions. He traces the group’s rise in a concise, informative summary, and looks at both overall ideology and the personal narratives of individual fighters. Striking a readable balance between academic prose and anecdotal journalism, this book provides a start in “realistically evaluating a phenomenon that will define the new wave of terrorism.”’ * Publishers Weekly *Praise for Old and New Terrorism: ‘This book is suitable for everybody who wants to understand the basic principles and driving forces behind current terrorist groups as well as those wishing to in-depth knowledge of the history of terrorism. Despite the complexity of the evidence about the gradual changes that have led to a transformation in the phenomenon of terrorism, the overall thesis of the book is easy to comprehend, and all arguments are easy to follow.’ * Central European Journal of International and Security Studies *

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Book SynopsisCo-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines The Declaration of Independence and other texts by Thomas Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration. Introducing this collection of Jefferson's writings, Michael Hardt makes a powerful case for re-examining the foundational writings of this American revolutionary in order to reignite the dialogue that first conceived of a "land of the free".Trade Review"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure."--Thomas Jefferson

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Book SynopsisA TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS BOOK OF 2022 A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament' The New York Times 'A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves' Guardian 'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' Times 'Hard to think of a better case for liberal centrism' FT Liberalism - the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism - has never been so divisive as today. From Putin's populism, the Trump administration and autocratic rulers in democracies the world over, it has both thrived and failed under identity politics, authoritarianism, social media and a weakened free press the world over. Since its inception following the post-Reformation wars, liberalism has come under attack from conservatives and progressives alike, and today is dismissed by many as an 'obsolete doctrine'. In this brilliant and concise exposition, Francis Fukuyama sets out the cases for and against its classical premises: observing the rule of law, independence of judges, means over ends, and most of all, tolerance. Pithy, to the point, and ever pertinent, this is political dissection at its very best.Trade ReviewUrgent and timely . . . A vital strength of this slim, elegant book is that it is crystalline in its definitions, even while acknowledging the complexities of practice . . . A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves -- Andrew Anthony * Guardian *One of the west's most interesting public intellectuals ... he is always worth reading as a writer prepared to recalibrate and develop his thinking -- Iain Martin * Times *Transformative ... Maybe now, as Europe sees its most brutal war since 1945, we are ready to heed what Fukuyama was trying to tell us all along -- Matthew d'Ancona * Evening Standard *Books have poured out lately on liberalism's failings and how democracies break down. Among the diagnosticians, none is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama ... Hard to think of a better case for liberal centrism -- Edmund Fawcett * FT *Fukuyama succeeds in his explaining his objections to identity politics with great clarity and concreteness -- Iain MacWhirter * Herald *Concise and lucid ... Fukuyama sketches a strategy that classical liberals might adopt in order to shore up the foundations of their favoured form of government -- Oliver Letwin * Tablet *Fukuyama, like many of us, is a chastened liberal. But his argument is more persuasive as a result. He takes seriously the criticisms of liberalism from left and right and is not sparing in his own criticisms of public policy -- Richard V. Reeves * Literary Review *A sober and measured analysis ... in lucid, uncomplicated, prose -- JP O’Malley * Irish Examiner *A rare thing: academic treatise that may actually have influence in the arena of practical politics ... Fukuyama writes with a crystalline rationality -- Joe Klein * New York Times *An urgent case for ... a rejuvenated liberal practice that retains the very essence of classical liberalism -- Shelley Walia * Tribune India *Liberals are challenged by illiberal sentiment on the woke left and the authoritarian right. But Fukuyama is not giving up. This compelling defence of liberalism convincingly parries blows from all sides * Times Best Philosophy & Ideas Books of 2022 *Praise for Identity: As wise as it is compact, travelling at great speed through difficult terrain to a sensible conclusion * The Times *A primer on the big political shift of our times, and an explainer of how we got here * Sunday Times *Sweeping and ambitious * Prospect *A useful primer on an important subject * Literary Review *A short, sharp defence of a doctrine which has come under attack from all sides -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman *

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats. Beginning with Jo Grimond’s rise to the leadership in 1956, it follows the Liberal resurgence in the second half of the twentieth century through to the major setbacks of the 2015 general election and the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the European Union. Drawing on interviews with leading politicians and political thinkers, the book examines Liberal ideas against the background of key historical events and controversies, including the period of coalition government with the Conservatives.Trade Review'Well-researched, thorough and balanced.'Sir Vince Cable, Leader of the Liberal Democrats'Tudor Jones has written a meticulously detailed and scholarly account of the revival of the Liberal Party since the dog days of the 1950s, and of the tribulations of the Liberal Democrats since the merger with the SDP in the 1980s. The uneven path of British Liberalism will prove the standard work on the subject, and it is of particular relevance at a time when the Liberal Democrats seem on the brink of a revival. It is a contribution of great importance to recent political history.'Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, King's College London‘Since the mid-1950s, when observers first discerned a revival in its fortunes, the electoral history of the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats, has been characterised by a bewildering series of upturns and reversals. This uneven path has been accompanied by an ongoing internal debate – partisans might reject the suggestion of a dispute – over the party’s underlying philosophy and purpose. Much of this relates to Liberalism’s uneasy coalition of social and economic traditions and the extent to which they can be combined within the same political movement. Showing an impressive knowledge and understanding of the relevant literature, Tudor Jones expertly leads the reader through Liberalism’s ideological history over the last sixty years. His work is timely. With the Liberal Democrats again reclaiming a significant role in British politics, this book is one which students and practitioners of Liberalism will want to read.’David Dutton, Ramsay Muir Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Liverpool'Jones deftly interleaves a well-informed description of the party's internal philosophical debates with a clear account of its political fortunes, both good and not so good, between 1945 and 2017. The new chapters on the coalition and its immediate aftermath are notably fair and balanced, providing a valuable resource not only for historians but also for journalists and indeed anyone eager to get beyond partisan views of that still controversial period.'David Howarth, Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Cambridge and MP for Cambridge from 2005–10 -- .Table of Contents1 Survival of a creed, 1954–562 The advent of Grimond: the creed revived, 1956–593 Of progress, realignment and disappointed hopes, 1959–674 The rise of community politics in uncertain times, 1967–765 Liberalism in a cul-de-sac, 1976–796 Liberalism within the Alliance: denting the mould, 1979–887 Liberals, Owen and the social market economy, 1983–888 Recovery after a painful infancy, 1988–979 Ashdown’s unfinished project, 1997–9910 Advance and debate, 1999–200511 Crisis, consolidation and reaffirmation, 2005–712 Into uncharted post-1945 territory: coalition government, 2010–1513 Electoral collapse, 2015 and the future of British LiberalismConclusionIndex

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Book Synopsis*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only in the East but also back in the heartland of the West.In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin''s Russia and Orbán''s Hungary into models for the United States.Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.Trade ReviewA brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism. . . a must read to understand our present discontents -- Lionel Barber * Financial Times Books of the Year *If you read one book to understand the state of the world today, make it this one. Aphoristic, counter-intuitive and amusing, a single page provides more insight into populism than libraries of books on Brexit or Trump. . . Extraordinary and compelling. . . Its subject matter is bleak but the deep learning, humour and humanity of its authors shines through -- Mark Leonard * Prospect *A brilliant explanation of the mess we are in. . . written with wonderfully dry wit * Evening Standard Books of the Year *An important book that fizzes with ideas. . . There is a smart insight or elegant paradox on almost every page. . . This book poses in stark terms the dilemma for those who took for granted the ideas that created the postwar western world * Sunday Times *Sharp, polemical and ideas-packed * Economist *Compelling and witty * Prospect Books of the Year *An unflinchingly honest explanation of what has gone wrong in the west - and the east - since 1989 * Financial Times *A bracing analysis of post-Cold War politics, upending cherished assumptions and forcing us to look afresh at the complex dialectic of liberalism and illiberalism -- George SorosThis is a book about imitation by a couple of utterly inimitable authors. It is the most original explanation I've read of the self-destruction of the liberal West as universal utopia. Scathing yet fair -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is PossibleWitty, incisive, devastating: an unforgettable analysis of why the light of liberalism failed in Eastern Europe, and why resentment towards imitation of the West has fueled the furies of the populist revolt -- Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University, Budapest

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Book SynopsisA prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a ''tyranny of opinion'' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority. Written in the same period as On Liberty, shortly after the death of Mill''s beloved wife and fellow-thinker Harriet, The Subjection of Women stresses the importance of equality for the sexes. Together, the works provide a fascinating testimony to the hopes and anxieties of mid-Victorian England, and offer a compelling consideration of what it truly means to be free.Trade ReviewOn Liberty remains a classic. . . . The present world would be better than it is if [MillÆs] principles were more respected. (Bertrand Russell)

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Book SynopsisIn this latest collection of essays Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the Constitution, health care, foreign policy, and more. Skewering the self-righteous and self-important, he makes the case for what he calls the the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient - limited government.

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"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris...THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of 'how it works' in this ongoing post-Trump (pre-Trump?) maelstrom. I just imbibed this book." Mark Leibovich, author of This TownThe Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting from exclusive parties, poker nights, fundraisers, secluded farms outside town and the halls of Congress; among the oddballs and opportunists and true believers. This book is about the people who see this moment as an opportunity to bet big-on their country or maybe just on themselves. It will take a close look at Washington's bold-faced names as they try to get their bearings on the post-Trump (and possibly pre-Trump) landscape. And it will introduce readers to the behind-the-scenes players - MAGA pilgrims and Resistance flame keepers and shapeshifting veterans - who believe they know what Washington, and America, must do if they're going to survive, or even thrive.Trump's arrival in Washington represented a big break in how the city operated. He surrounded himself with outsiders; power structures reorganized around those who knew him or his family and those who could flatter and influence his base. He changed the way the game was played, only it wasn't actually a game at all. When pro-Trump elements both inside and outside of government plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, the Capitol became a combat zone, then a military fortress. It was, to put it lightly, a destabilizing time. But how much did the Trump years really change Washington? Has Joe Biden's presidency heralded a return to normal, as many had hoped? What did 'normal' mean before Trump, and what do people think it means now? The Big Break will follow a cast of D.C. characters in search of answers to these questions. They are a diverse crew-a pollster with a gambling habit, an oil heiress with a big heart, a cowboy lobbyist, a Republican kingmaker who decided to love Trump and his right-hand man who decided he couldn't any longer. They all share at least one thing in common: They had seen their country go through a Big Break, and they'd come to get theirs.

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Book Synopsis`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.'' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. He paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was villified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. Paine loathed the unnatural inequalities fostered by the hereditary and monarchical systems. He believed that government must be by and for the people and must limit itself to the protection of their natural rights. But he was not a libertarian: from a commitment to natural rights he generated one of the first blueprints for a welfare state, combining a liberal order of civil rights with egalitarian constraints. This collection brings together Paine''s most powerful political writings from the American and French revolutions in the first fully annotated edition of these works. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review'OUP's excellent series continues with a collection from the Christopher Hitchens de ses jours.' GuardianTable of ContentsCommon Sense ; American Crisis 1 ; American Crisis X111 ; Letters to Jefferson ; Rights of Man ; Rights of Man. Part the Second ; Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation ; Dissertation on the First Principles of Government ; Agrarian Justice

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Book SynopsisLiberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in the 21st Century? And how can we defend the values that we hold dear? In his new book, How to Be a Liberal, Ian Dunt provides a clear and concise guide to liberalism for the modern age. Drawing on his years of experience as a journalist and political commentator, Dunt argues that liberalism is not just a set of abstract principles, but a practical guide to living a good and meaningful life. In the book, Dunt covers a wide range of topics, including: What is liberalism and why is it important? The history of liberalism and its key thinkers The different types of liberalism and their strengths and weaknesses How to be a liberal in a world that is increasingly hostile to liberalism Dunt's writing is witty and engaging, and he makes complex ideas accessible to a general audience. He is also not afraid to tackle difficult topics, such as the challenges of multiculturalism and the rise of identity politics. But what makes How to Be a Liberal truly unique is Dunt's emphasis on the importance of humor and irony in the defense of liberalism. He argues that liberals need to learn to laugh at themselves and their opponents, and to avoid taking themselves too seriously. In one passage, Dunt writes: "Liberalism is not a religion. It is a set of ideas that are open to challenge and debate. Liberals should never be afraid to laugh at themselves or their own beliefs. In fact, I would argue that a sense of humor is essential for any liberal who wants to be effective in the world." Dunt's book is a timely and important contribution to the debate about liberalism in the 21st century. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be a liberal today and how to defend the values that we hold dear.Trade Review‘A tour de force; a mighty trumpet blast for the forces of liberalism and enlightenment in the face of a global tide of ignorance and populism.’ – THE SECRET BARRISTER‘This is a history of ideas as it should be written – brilliant, vivid story-telling about the people who shaped liberalism, the challenges it has faced over the centuries, its commitment to the truth and why it’s now more important than ever to defend it.’ – CAROLINE LUCAS MP‘Dunt’s gift for making complicated issues comprehensible is second to none. Courageous.’ – JAMES O’BRIEN, LBC‘How To Be A Liberal is required reading for today’s political debates.’ – ANNE APPLEBAUM, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY ‘Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engaging.’ – NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST‘A phenomenal history from a truly big mind.’ – DAVID SCHNEIDER, THE DEATH OF STALIN'When in the course of human events it falls on us to resist, this makes a welcome guidebook.' – KIRKUS'He describes liberalism as “an enormous, boisterous, confounding bloody thing,” and writes passionately in its favour, as a counterweight to ignorance and populism. This book is required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy.' – PROSPECT'All of Ian Dunt’s How to be a Liberal is essential reading, but the chapter on Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill is blistering, eye-opening stuff.' – Shakespeare & Company bookstore, https://twitter.com/Shakespeare_Co/status/1332266783303151617 Table of ContentsTODAY. Reveals the six lies behind the rise of nationalism in the Republican Party in the USA, the Conservative Party in Great Britain, the Bharatiya Janata Party in India, Likud in Israel, the Alliance for Brazil in Brazil, PDP–Laban in the Philippines, Fidesz in Hungary and the Lega in Italy 1. BIRTH. The origin of independent thought in the mind of philosopher René Descartes, who realised Cogito, ergo sum: 'I think therefore I am'. Mentions Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method, and Nicolaus Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. 2. AWAKENING. In the English Civil War period, radicals started to outline three political thoughts that challenged the established order. They were freedom of religious conscience, the notion of the individual, and the notion of doubt. These three ideas would become central to liberalism 3. THE THREE REVOLUTIONS. Liberalism was moulded in the furnace of three revolutions in the 18th century: The Glorious Revolution in England, the American Revolution and the French Revolution THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 4. CONSTANT. The womanising dissolute 18th Century Swiss philosopher Benjamin Constant established the political rights of the individual and warned of the tyranny of an over-mighty government in Napoleonic France 5. HARRIET AND JOHN. Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill had a deep love affair and laid the groundwork for the development of modern liberalism, including championing a minority cause in 19th Century Victorian England: the right of women to vote. They wrote The Enfranchisement of Women and On Liberty 6. DEATH. The Dreyfuss Affair in France, the extermination of peasants in Ukraine's Holodomor, and the genocide against Jews in Nazi Germany showed what happened when nationalism when tyrants could channel the 'will of the people' over the rights of the individual protected by liberalism 7. NEW WORLD ORDER. After the catastrophe of the Second World War, liberal democracies in the West built a new post-war, rights-based liberal world order designed to guarantee peace and individual rights. Economically John Maynard Keynes triumphed over Friedrich Hayek 8. BELONGING. One flaw in liberalism was the lack of recognition of the identity felt by individuals, whether nationality or religion. The English writer George Orwell and philosopher Isaiah Berlin averred the importance of this sense of belonging in their writings and ultimately in liberalism 9. CRASH. The post-war liberal world order crashed with oil crisis stagflation in the 1970s when Hayek's small state philosophy took root in US governments, leading to bank deregulation on Wall Street (and likewise in the UK under Margaret Thatcher) - leading eventually to 2008 global financial crash 10. IDENTITY WAR. Liberalism had largely been devised by white men, and women and ethnic groups carved out a separate identity that put the group ahead of the individual. 'This was no longer the politics of how to change the world. It was the politics of who you were.' 11. ANTI-TRUTH. Just as liberalism faced multiple threats from the resurgence of nationalism, the rise of identity politics and the financial crash, people’s ability to use reason diminished with the rise of social media. Now everyone was the arbiter of their own truth. Facts became opinions. 12. THE NEW NATIONALISM. 1. Hungary, where Victor Urban used fear of foreigners to dismantle the free media and democratic institutions of Hungary. 2. The rise of Donald Trump who degraded the idea of independent facts. 3 Brexit Britain where nationalist propaganda trumped a nation's interests 13. THE OTHER. How nationalists in Italy, Britain, the US and elsewhere have seized on a supposed threat to their countries from other people to whip up dissent and to crack down on immigration and the rights of individuals, harming democracy and liberal values TOMORROW. The big problem with liberalism has been complacency that it would eventually triumph around the world. The answer is for liberals to fight for their democratic values. Joe Biden's election as US President offers hope for a kinder, better future SORRY & THANK YOU. Acknowledgements and apologies. Mentions Ronald Dworkin, TH Green, François Guizot, Leonard Hobhouse, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Immanuel Kant, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Friedrich Schiller and Alexis de Tocqueville. FURTHER READING. An extensive list of books that hold the keys to liberalism, including Liberalism: The Life of an Idea by Edmund Fawcett and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Also recommended is Toby Buckle’s Political Philosophy podcast. 'You owe it to yourself to read On Liberty' INDEX. The As start: Act of Union, Acxiom, Adam, adaptive preference, advertising, African Americans, aggregate demand, agitators, Agreement of the People, Akhmatova, Aktion T-4 programme, algorithms, alternative facts...

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Book SynopsisSan Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs.Trade Review“San Fransicko is outstanding. Michael Shellenberger pries loose the truth about homelessness and housing in America in this myth-shattering book — and proposes tested, humane alternatives that work.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb "San Fransicko is a lucid lesson in how self-serving ideological fads yank progressivism into a ditch, creating misery in the name of enlightenment. Shellenberger shows us one of the keys to running a city: knowing the difference between virtue signaling and getting results." — John McWhorter, linguist, writer for The Atlantic and The New York Times, and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University "Civilized urban life is a precious accomplishment — difficult to achieve and easy to squander. In this humane and reasoned book, Michael Shellenberger diagnoses the mistakes progressives made and maps out a practical, evidence-based path to improvement.” — Steven Pinker, author, Enlightenment Now, and Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University "In his compassionate, pragmatic, and truly indispensable book, Michael Shellenberger takes on the devastation of the urban environment. The sprawl of chaotic tent encampments populated by psychotic and addicted people is a daunting problem — one that too many progressive authorities don’t know how to solve. Or, worse, don’t really want to. Shellenberger lays out a humane blueprint to help the suffering, revive the cities, and restore civic order.” — Sally Satel, M.D., Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine. “In this compelling and well-written book, Shellenberger challenges many long-held shibboleths about how we think about cities and social policy. Required reading for us liberals as we try to reimagine what cities should do, look like and whose interests they should serve.” — Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University “What explains the shocking breakdown of public order in many of America’s leading cities? Michael Shellenberger, with the erudition and iconoclasm he is known for, shows how catastrophe can result when good intentions are combined with bad ideas. San Fransicko is devastating.” — Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite “San Fransicko peels back layers of “progressive” rhetoric with peer reviewed science and data to show that the vast majority of California’s unsheltered residents suffer from drug and alcohol addiction, and complex medical conditions, that cannot be solved by a key to a hotel room or higher cash stipends. Fierce bullies who make a living “protecting” the homeless status quo are the villains of this catastrophe, enabled by the feckless electeds and hippie nostalgia of Baby Boomers. Enough.” — Jennifer Hernandez, civil rights lawyer

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Book SynopsisRevises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.Table of ContentsIntroduction Introduction to the Paperback Edition Part I. Political Liberalism: Basic Elements Lecture I. Fundamental Ideas Addressing Two Fundamental Questions The Idea of a Political Conception of Justice The Idea of Society as a Fair System of Cooperation The Idea of the Original Position The Political Conception of the Person The Idea of a Well-Ordered Society Neither a Community nor an Association The Use of Abstract Conceptions Lecture II. The Powers of Citizens and Their Representation The Reasonable and the Rational The Burdens of Judgement Reasonable Comprehensive Doctrines The Publicity Condition: Its Three Levels Rational Autonomy: Artificial not Political Full Autonomy: Political not Ethical The Basis of Motivation in the Person Moral Psychology: Philosophical not Psychological Lecture III. Political Constructivism The Idea of a Constructivist Conception Kant's Moral Constructivism Justice as Fairness as a Constructivist View The Role of Conceptions of Society and Person Three Conceptions of Objectivity Objectivity Independent of the Casual View of Knowledge When Do Objective Reasons Exist, Politically Speaking? The Scope of Political Constructivism Part II. Political Liberalism: Three Main Ideas Lecture IV. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus How is Political Liberalism Possible? The Question of Stability Three Features of an Overlapping Consensus An Overlapping Consensus not Indifferent or Skeptical A Political Conception Need Not Be Comprehensive Steps to Constitutional Consensus Steps to Overlapping Consensus Conception and Doctrines: How Related Lecture V. Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good How a Political Conception Limits Conceptions of the Good Goodness as Rationality Primary Goods and Interpersonal Comparisons Primary Goods as Citizens' Need Permissible Conceptions of the Good and Political Virtues Is Justice as Fairness Fair to Conceptions of the Good? The Good of Political Society That Justice as Fairness is Complete Lecture VI. The Idea of Public Reason The Question and Forums of Public Right Public Reason and the Ideal of Democratic Citizenship Nonpublic Reasons The Content of Public Reason The Ideal of Constitutional Essentials The Supreme Court as Exemplar of Public Reason Apparent Difficulties with Public Reason The Limits of Public Reason Part III. Institutional Framework Lecture VII.The Basic Structure as Subject First Subject of Justice Unity by Appropriate Sequence Libertarianism Has No Special Role for the Basic Structure The Importance of Background Justice How the Basic Structure Affects Individuals Initial Agreement as Hypothetical and Nonhistorical Special Features of the Initial Agreement The Social Nature of Human Relationships Ideal Form for the Basic Structure Reply to Hegel's Criticism Lecture VIII. The Basic Liberties and Their Priority The Initial Aim of Justice as Fairness The Special Status of Basic Liberties Conceptions of Person and Social Cooperation The Original Position Priority of Liberties, I: Second Moral Power Priority of Liberties, II: First Moral Power Basic Liberties not Merely Formal A Fully Adequate Scheme of Basic Liberties How Liberties Fit into One Coherent Scheme Free Political Speech The Clear and Present Danger Rule Maintaining the Fair Value of Political Liberties Liberties Connected with the Second Principle The Role of Justice as Fairness Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas Two Main Differences Overlapping Consensus and Justification Liberties of the Moderns Versus the Will of the People The Roots of the Liberties Procedural Versus Substantive Justice Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain.Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now' Emily MaitlisHugely illuminating, thought-provoking and moving in its seriousness and optimism' Lord Andrew AdonisESSENTIAL READING DURING LABOUR'S LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN.In the 21st Century the Labour Party has undergone the most extraordinary transformation in its history. After more than a decade of political dominance, the party lost two consecutive general elections and found its leadership usurped by the obscure far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn. As Britain voted to leave the EU, Labour seemed destined for long term irrelevance.In Left for Dead? journalist Lewis Goodall tells the full story of this political journey with unprecedented access to all its key players, from Blair to Corbyn. Weaving together personal memoir, exclusive interviews, juicy gossip and incisive critique, he travels fromTrade Review‘Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now – and this book shows clearly why he is worth listening to. Profoundly, exquisitely funny, Left for Dead is that rare gem – acute political observation told through intensely personal story’ Emily Maitlis ‘Lewis Goodall’s brilliant book is part memoir, part portrait of Labour and the Britain he grew up in under Blair. It is the best work I have read of his generation, which thank God is replacing mine. Hugely illuminating, thought-provoking and moving in its seriousness and optimism’ Lord Andrew Adonis ‘I cannot recommend Lewis Goodall’s book enough. I’m loving every page. It’s not just politically powerful but far more emotional to read than I’d expected’ Matt Forde ‘A rip-roaring ride, sparky and sharp … Goodall explores Labour’s story with rigour’ Daily Telegraph ‘An excellent new book on Corbynism, and where it stands in Labour’s history’ Andrew Sparrow, Guardian ‘Lewis Goodall argues compellingly that the 2017 general election didn’t change British politics, it revealed profound shifts that had been taking place for years. Goodall challenges the most entrenched assumptions and reveals a Britain utterly changed. This is big picture journalism informed but up close and intimate detail. Goodall’s reporting is energetic, astute, eloquent. His voice rings with a decency and respect for others that is often missing in an increasingly polarised and bitter political discourse – and left me feeling, by the end, surprisingly hopeful about the future’ Allan Little ‘Impassioned and insightful, this is the best book on Labour to appear in years. Lewis Goodall combines the precision of an expert analyst with the raw emotion that comes from growing up in a family rooted in the Labour Party’s past traditions’ Professor Marc Stears, Director, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney (Formerly chief speechwriter to Ed Miliband MP)

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Book SynopsisSteve Hilton tackles the (literally) burning question: What will it take to save California?California is a model for the nation, Governor Gavin Newsom keeps telling us. We''re following a formula for success. InCalifailure, Hilton compellingly captures exactly where this far-left experiment has gone fundamentally?catastrophically?wrong.Great cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland collapsed into squalor as crime and homelessness were allowed to explode. The state that used to pride itself as the home of innovation and opportunity became the state with the worst rate of poverty, highest unemployment, and most hostile business climate in America?as well as the highest taxes.How did this happen, and what is needed to turn things around? Hilton identifies the nine key pathologies?from Elitism to Cronyism to Narcissism?that define the ideology at the heart of California''s decline. And he lays out a comprehensive program of policy reform (CaliFuture) that will restore the Golden State to its rightful place as the very best of America.Californians are starting to wake up from the long and fitful nightmare. In 2024 far-left politicians were removed from leadership positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Proposition 36, which in the words of its proponents makes crime illegal again, passed overwhelmingly with majorities in every county.Califailureis what happens when Democrats get everything they want. Increasingly, it''s not what Californians want. This book explains why America must reject it, too.

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Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAnchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world''s most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into communist China''s powerful economic system. However, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the related European Sovereign Debt Crisis triggered a decade of economic volatility and insecurity that boosted the fortunes of the 1 per cent while saddling the 99 per cent with stagnant wages and precarious work. As a result of this Great Recession, neoliberalism fortunes have waned considerably. This downward trend further accelerated with the recent surge of national populism around the world that brought to power outspoken critics of neoliberalism like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro, and Narendra Modi. Is neoliberalism doomed or will it regain its former glory? And what are the major types of neoliberalism, and how did they evolve over the decades? Responding to these crucial questions, this Very Short introduction explores the considerable variations of neoliberalism around the world, and discusses the origins, evolution, and core ideas of neoliberalism. This new edition brings the story of neoliberalism up to date, and asks whether new versions of neoliberalism might succeed in drowning out the rising tide of national populism and its nostalgic longing for a return to territorial sovereignty and national greatness.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: What's 'neo' about liberalism? 2: Three waves of neoliberalism 3: Neoliberalism in the Asia-Pacific Region 4: Neoliberalism in Latin America and Africa 5: Neoliberalism challenged References and Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issuesTrade Review“This cogent, brilliant book reveals the morality at both ends of the political spectrum. Janoff-Bulman is one of the smartest people in the room, and she says we need both. Listening to her might save our democracy.”—Susan T. Fiske, author of Social Cognition“Ronnie Janoff-Bulman expertly debunks recent canards in moral psychology: that liberals are more individualistic than conservatives; that conservative morality is broader or more extensive than liberal morality; and that we, as a society, can hope to succeed on the basis of a social order that is lacking in social justice.”—John T. Jost, author of Left & Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political Distinction“What’s the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals? Ronnie Janoff-Bulman delivers a cogent, evidence-based answer that challenges the received wisdom and dissipates the partisan fog—an illuminating book.”—Joshua Greene, author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

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Book SynopsisA rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageTrade Review“Smith superbly illuminates the distinctiveness of the American idea of patriotism and reminds us of how important patriotism is, and how essential to making America better.”—Leslie Lenkowsky, Wall Street Journal“Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired . . . Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes. It explained my emotion to me, as it might yours to you.”—David Brooks, New York Times“Smith has drawn intelligent distinctions. . . . [His] book will help prevent patriotism from fading to something only dimly remembered.” —George Will, Washington Post“It’s a brave man who takes on the vital and necessary task of defining and defending patriotism from the left. Professor Steven Smith rises to the challenge, making a nuanced but forceful case in concise and compelling prose.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World“Steven B. Smith brings a wonderful blend of learning and lucidity to the most important question of the day: What does it mean to be American? At a time when Trumpian conservatives have revived the ethno-nationalism that runs like a dark stain throughout our history, and when many progressives regard the nation’s founding principles as little more than hypocrisies, Smith’s appeal to a patriotism of liberalism is as refreshing as it is vital.”—Robert Kagan, author of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World“In contrast to those who see only a choice between xenophobic nationalism or radical anti-Americanism, Steven B. Smith shows how American patriotism can be a partnership in pursuit of a more perfect union. A valuable book that blends cosmopolitan learning with a deep understanding of what is best in America.”—Rogers Smith, author of That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood“Steven Smith decouples patriotism from nationalism and reclaims a viable conception of patriotism from its critics on the left and right. Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes is a clearly written, historically informed, and utterly necessary book for our troubled times.”—William A. Galston, Brookings Institution

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Book SynopsisA new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican PartyTrade Review“[Ziegler’s] argument [is] that, over the course of decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent candidate like Trump. . . . You get the sense that Ziegler could recite this history backward and forward.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times“In this thought-provoking book, Mary Ziegler traces how anti-abortion advocacy groups have transformed the landscape of US democracy. . . . Ziegler’s insights will benefit scholars, activists and party leaders seeking to understand the declining influence of the Republican establishment within US politics.”—Sara Angevine, International AffairsChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2022“Another tour de force scholarly performance from one of our very best—and nonpartisan!—historians of post-1970 America. Ziegler always takes conservatives seriously, and superior insight is the result.”—David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liberty and Sexuality and Bearing the Cross“As Mary Ziegler shows us in this incisive and important book, anti-abortion activists have shaped the GOP in ways that even they could not have anticipated. Everyone interested in the past and future of American politics should read this book.”—Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara“Dollars for Life illuminates a crucial and surprising component of anti-abortion advocacy since Roe: thwarted repeatedly in Congress and the courts, abortion opponents have sought to spend their way to legal and legislative victory. The very activists who have worked to strip constitutional protection for abortion rights have fought to extend constitutional protection for money in politics. Mary Ziegler’s eye-opening analysis reveals the anti-abortion movement’s pivotal role in undermining campaign finance laws and with them, unexpectedly, the Republican party establishment.”—Laura Weinrib, Harvard Law School“Dollars for Life exposes the largely hidden connection between abortion politics and campaign finance. Meticulously researched and enormously relevant, it will change how both pro-life advocacy and money in politics are understood.”—Andrew R. Lewis, author of The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics

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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. The selection represents only 1% of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have put online in a user-friendly format. This book and the larger online collection are sorely needed and deserve to be read by generation after generation.

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Book Synopsis'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history--and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.Trade ReviewWritten with Adam Gopnik's signature wit and charm, A Thousand Small Sanities is also a clarion call at a moment of great danger. This fierce, capacious, and startlingly intelligent defense of a whole political, social, and moral order is essential reading for our time. * Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve *A smart, exhilarating defense of the liberal tradition * Publishers Weekly *Adam Gopnik is one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age, and this book may be his most masterful, meaningful, and enjoyable yet. He turns his sweeping intellectual imagination into a conversation with a cross-partisan American longing for a renewal of common life that scarcely knows how to name itself. In an age in which we've connected ourselves with scale but without quality, and fractured communal cohesion in part by forgetting our shared liberal inheritance, this book is essential, redemptive reading * Krista Tippett, host of On Being *Witty, humane, learned . . . By assimilating what was once radical to his variety of liberalism, Gopnik hopes to prove to contemporary progressives that they can champion the woke causes of the 21st century without surrendering the liberal heritage of free speech, rule of law, scientific inquiry and individual conscience. -- David Frum * New York Times *An elegant, impassioned, and rigorously reasoned effort to re-humanize the most humanistic moral and political philosophy our civilization has produced... -- Maria Popova

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Book Synopsis“A crucial warning for Americans about the left’s never-ending lust to steal individual liberties — and the power of God to stop it.” — Everett Piper, Bestselling Author of Grow Up!Lockdown is a terrifying story of not only the chaotic freefall of American freedoms during the opening stages of the COVID pandemic, but the dangerous growth of government power that continues today.Lockdown is a warning that the extraordinary powers invoked by left-wing Democrats and others, justified by claims of public health and safety, have begun the unravelling of America’s constitutional order and our most cherished freedoms.Using COVID-19 as a cover, Democrat leaders and their bureaucratic health advisers seized powers the Constitution never gave them, and ordered citizens to stay off streets and out of public parks, banned them from their workplaces, closed down their schools, and made church attendance a crimes — even as these same leaders and their left-leaning cronies blithely, arrogantly, and outrageously allowed mass protests, kept open abortion clinics and did as they pleased.Relying on her trademark aggressive reporting style, Cheryl K. Chumley explains how the radical left is using pandemic policies as a template for increasing controls over the lives of citizens as they build a one-party, socialist state in America.A sequel to her bestselling book Socialists Don’t Sleep, in Lockdown, Chumley exposes how hypocritical, elitist, and radical leftists are still using the coronavirus to score political points and steal individual rights – as the original pandemic served as dress rehearsal in the march toward the new fascism.Trade ReviewPraise for LOCKDOWN: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom by Cheryl K. Chumley “Cheryl Chumley’s Lockdown exposes the truth about the Left’s exploitation of COVID-19 and the dangers of big government. This book is an important tool for all Americans to defend their God-given freedom and liberties.” — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives“A crucial warning for Americans about the left’s never-ending lust to steal individual liberties—and the power of God to stop it.” —Everett Piper, bestselling Author of Grow Up! and Not a Day Care “Our personal liberties are so easy to take for granted, but if the growing gang of Socialists have their way, we will regret not having paid attention and assuming such a stupid thing would never happen in America. Cheryl Chumley is a gifted writer and courageously explains what’s at stake. Don’t put off reading this book and regret that you failed to realize the threat we face.” — Gov. Mike Huckabee, New York Times bestselling author and host of Huckabee "The Pandemic reminded us of how fragile our liberties are. Cheryl Chumley shows us how close we came to losing them for good and what we can do to secure them in time for the next challenge." — Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist and bestselling author "The Hippocratic Oath states: 'First, do no harm.' When a plague originated in a Chinese Communist Party lab in Wuhan began spreading like a prairie fire across America, President Trump faced a no-win situation — how best to stop it. In LOCKDOWN, Cheryl Chumley gets to the heart of the dilemma that POTUS warned us about on that March day — don't let the cure be worse than the disease. Cheryl Chumley is one of the most important voices in the Trump Movement and LOCKDOWN is a must-read for those 'Deplorables' who want to understand the real threat America faces." — Steve Bannon, host of War Room and former White House chief strategist for President Donald J. Trump “Any conservative who is familiar with Cheryl Chumley’s work, knows she’s a champion of human liberty. LOCKDOWN reveals how anti-freedom, left-wing forces use events and tragedies like a pandemic to advance their barbarous assault on the human spirt. Everyone who loves this country needs to pay attention to this important book as it dismantles the tricks and tactics used by the radical left to advance their dark agenda. More importantly, Cheryl tells us what we can do to stop it.” — Chris Salcedo, host of Newsmax The Chris Salcedo Show “LOCKDOWN is a deep dive into the radical Left’s aggressive manipulation and politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic to advance their own toxic agenda and silence the American people. Cheryl Chumley has done it again!” — Rep. Jody Hice, R-GA, and host of The Jody Hice Show “Despite different views Americans will hold about the pandemic and the vaccine, we can all be united about the value of liberty, and the need to be vigilant in defending it. The Left looks for any and every opportunity to destroy it. Cheryl Chumley’s book LOCKDOWN will help you to be even more alert to this danger!” — Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life “Cheryl has emerged as one of the most important writers in America today for one of the most important newspapers today. She made tremendous impact with her landmark book Socialists Don’t Sleep. Now she extends her work in the brilliant LOCKDOWN detailing how precisely collectivists like Joe Biden are, at this moment, doing their utmost to destroy freedom in America. Must read. Essential.” — Craig Shirley, Reagan Biographer and Presidential Historian “Cheryl Chumley takes you through a no-holes-barred expose of how America was transformed seemingly overnight by one of the most liberty robbing policies ever instituted, the COVID lockdowns. Instead of taking ‘two weeks’ to flatten the virus curve, lockdowns persisted for more than a year and flattened America's constitution, freedoms, common sense, science, and public health. LOCKDOWN walks the reader through the bastardization of science and how unelected public health bureaucrats became dictators virtually overnight in our once free nation. Find out what is behind the tyranny of government stay-at-home orders, curfews, bans on attending weddings, funerals and backyard barbeques. Chumley reveals how global institutions are poised to make the "two-week" flattening of your freedom into a permanent Great Reset using climate change to bring George Orwell's 1984 dystopian vision into reality." — Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot and the author of the bestselling Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think and former senior staff of U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. “The political divide in America became the mask divide. Those who believe in big government and phony science clung to masks, lockdowns and Fauci far after the facts were against them. Chumley outlines how it happened.” — Jack Kingston, Conservative Activist and Former U.S. Congressman for Georgia's 1st DistrictTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS to LOCKDOWN: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom by Cheryl K. Chumley INTRODUCTION—AND SO IT BEGINS… A TIMELINE TO TYRANNY… In March 2020, as the United States was beginning to feel the ravages of the new coronavirus, and citizens were pressed to stay home, and business owners were forced to close their doors, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to write in all caps: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!” The President’s words proved prescient. From there began a topsy-turvy chaotic freefall of American freedoms that saw Democrat governors and their bureaucratic health advisers seize powers the Constitution never gave them, and outright order citizens to stay off the streets, stay out of work, stay at home, stay away from schools, stay far from churches – even as these same Democrat governors and their left-leaning cronies blithely, arrogantly and outrageously did as they pleased. Even as fatalities from the coronavirus fell. Even as the science showed many of the mitigation efforts were fruitless at containing the virus. Even as the selection of establishments targeted for closure grew more and more biased in nature. America’s economy ground to a standstill. American citizens groaned under the weight of government. And hypocritical, elitist and arrogant Democrats use the Covid-19 pandemic to score political points and steal individual rights. IT WAS A DRY-RUN FOR A SOCIALIST ANTI-FREEDOM AGENDA Chapter 1—COVID LOCKDOWNS A dry run for progressive/socialist anti-freedom agenda and government control of everything. fear works. Fear subdues. Fear plays right into the hands of the globalists and collectivists who want ultimately to control all the world’s governments. Chapter 2—TECHNOLOGICAL LOCKDOWN Contract tracing here to stay, tracking software, face recognition software — think police, law enforcement, airport screeners, security agencies — exploit the tracking features of contact tracing apps for their own surveillance purposes. Chapter 3—FREE SPEECH LOCKDOWN Social media bans, censorship and cancel culture. Chapter 4—EDUCATION LOCKDOWN Ending funding for private/religious schooling, end of school choice, rise of teacher unions and liberal agenda in curriculums — Unions and leftist educators demand more money, better benefits, cushier work incentives: to bring about a generation of citizens who are fearful and obedient, conditioned to taking orders from their big brotherly protectors in government. Dependent on their dear leaders. Chapter 5—PATRIOTISM LOCKDOWN Rebranding patriotism as racism — the left has to keep Americans divided; the left’s plan to crumble America focuses on dividing the population by race and class and education level and any other demographic that can be used to drive forth wedges, pit one against another, and create the kind of anger and envy that provides the perfect breeding ground for socialists to swoop. Getting rid of conservatives by labeling all conservatives as racist and violent is a perfect vehicle to silence dissenting opinions. The end game is to simply cancel conservatives. And along the way, canceling the Second Amendment is just as good — because, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, it’s scary and intimidating to have congressional members carry guns into the Capitol. Chapter 6—FREE MARKET LOCKDOWN “The Great Reset,” i.e. the destruction of the free market. The World Economic Forum is clear in its goals for a “great reset” to take place during the rebuilding of economies — and in this globalist elitist organization’s own words, it’s a reinvention of capitalism that’s the end game. The W.E.F. will press private businesses to put revenues second, and social consciousness first — with the ultimate end game as an oligarchy. It’s an evil genius plan that turns America’s free enterprise system on its head by pressuring businesses to act as the moral compasses for all of society. In other words: Corporations should cede profits for the social good, and countries should cede borders and sovereignty for the social good. Chapter 7—MILITARY LOCKDOWN The too-little-talked-about uncomfortable call on America’s military to patrol the streets and protect the public. The more soldiers get sent to America’s streets, the more immune citizens become to the idea of soldiers roaming America’s streets. Chapter 8—CLIMATE LOCKDOWN As said in the 2021 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation annual letter, “Pandemic preparedness must be taken as seriously as we take the threat of war.” And then Gates made a link between COVID-19 and climate change, saying that failing to deal with climate change will certainly bring on more disease and more pandemics and more worldwide suffering, such as seen under COVID. With that, he called for 3,000 specially trained medical officials who could spring to action and respond at the whiff of a virus to communities of the world — and assist, i.e., direct with local mitigation and containment efforts. Meanwhile, John Kerry, Biden’s climate envoy, has returned to his old Barack Obama secretary of state days and pushed the idea that climate change is a national security issue. It’s all inextricably linked: covid-19, climate change, the left’s call for social justice and economic justice and climate justice, the cancel culture against conservatives and labeling of Republicans and Trump supporters as white supremacists — coronavirus gave the Left what it needed to shut down the engines of a society, that also gives the Left what it needs to open up the engines of a society, in a refashioned, reconfigured state. It’s not just about the coronavirus. It’s about every radical Marxist collectivist globalist idea coming together in one massive coronavirus surge of opportunity — and what will happen, in the end, is an utter transformation of American politics and culture and government and society. Chapter 9—LESSONS FROM GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM In this fictional account of an animal uprising against oppressive human masters, the barn yard quickly becomes a breeding ground for elitists to rise and conquer. Some animals are equal — but some are more equal than others. This is how tyrannical governors gone mad with coronavirus power have behaved, ordering citizens to do one thing while refusing to do the same themselves. And just like in the ending pages of ANIMAL FARM, when the barn yard animals couldn’t tell the difference between their supposed liberator animal comrades, the pigs, and the human enemies they all fought and resisted and overthrew — so, too, is the strategy of the leftists using the coronavirus for political and personal gain: they don’t want you to notice the loss of individual rights. They don’t want it noticed that “four legs good, two legs bad” has morphed into “four legs good, two legs better.” They don’t want it noticed that the concept of God-given rights — America’s greatest asset — has morphed into government-granted rights and privileges. To notice is to be able to resist; to accept without even noticing is to change entire hearts and minds. The enemies of freedom want Americans to bow and relinquish their rights — but gratefully, believing those they bow to are saving them from danger.

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Book Synopsis''A panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read'' New Yorker''Read this book: in the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the smartest journalists working today, and his perceptions are priceless'' Jane Mayer, staff writer on the New Yorker''No one was more prescient about the economic malaise and popular resentment that has hit the United States than Ed Luce in his previous book, Time to Start Thinking. His new book, Retreat of Western Liberalism, broadens that picture to cover the Western world. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the waves of populism and nationalism we face today'' Liaquat AhamedIn his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of American economic and geoTrade ReviewNo one was more prescient about the economic malaise and popular resentment that has hit the United States than Ed Luce in his previous book, Time to Start Thinking. His new book, Retreat of Western Liberalism, broadens that picture to cover the Western world. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the waves of populism and nationalism we face today -- Liaquat AhamedEdward Luce provides a terrifying view of the challenges facing the West. We have to hope that his prophecies are self denying - something that is more likely if his penetrating analysis gets the wide attention it richly deserves -- Lawrence SummersA knowledgeable tour through the unmapped terrain in which Western politicians and governments must now operate * The Economist *Luce is at his best writing about America, on which his knowledge is voluminous . . . his writing has a vigour and sweep all too absent in the deadly prose of social scientists; and he has identified a fundamental question facing democracies * Financial Times *Beautifully written * The Times *[A] brisk, pointed and fascinating book . . . is far more than a disappointed liberal's angry tirade. His achievement is to put the rise of antiestablishment populism in a broader global economic context * Literary Review *An illuminating book -- Will Hutton * Observer *[A] brilliant book -- Nick Timothy * Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisA testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our eraTrade Review“Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that this may be his last book. One hopes not.”—James Traub, New York Times“[A] superb testimony to a lifelong struggle for a decent politics.”—Mario Clemens, LSE Review of Books“This little book by one of the most eminent thinkers of our time contains more political wisdom and moral decency than shelves of tomes on liberalism and its discontents. There is no better defender or critic of our ‘seriously imperfect liberal democracy’ than Michael Walzer.”—Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win“The Struggle for a Decent Politics is one of those books that we may come to think of as making the case for liberalism at its best. There are many distinguished predecessors in this list, from J. S. Mill’s On Liberty to Lionel Trilling’s Liberal Imagination to Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty. It would not surprise me if one day we thought of Michael Walzer’s book in this company. It deserves to be.”—Steven B. Smith, author of Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes“In this remarkable, deeply personal book, Michael Walzer melds political theory and un-elegiac memoir to trace the perennial struggle between liberalism and its enemies, a struggle that flashes in every facet of his political life—and ours. Walzer’s lifetime of learning and reflection has yielded an undimmed spirit of defiance, not just of brutal injustice but of the cults of true doctrine that injustice inspires. We’ve never needed that spirit more than now.”—Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy“Michael Walzer’s new book is a departure—it’s his most personal work yet—and, also, a continuation of the themes he’s developed so incisively for over four decades. This is a sometimes surprising, always illuminating look at key political concepts you may think you know (but don’t).The Struggle for a Decent Politics reminds us of what is worth fighting for, and of what can be lost.”—Susie Linfield, author of The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky

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Book SynopsisArticulates why the EU is well-placed to articulate and institute a new vision of prosperity that is both credible and appealing, whilst further fostering caring consumption, circular economy, sustainable industry and fairer corporate activity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisTo save both democracy and a decent economy, here is why it is crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president.Trade Review"A beautifully written book, hauntingly disturbing as it describes the Republican assault on our democracy and the real dangers of a second Trump administration, but hopeful as it proposes a way forward for an electoral victory and the enactment of a progressive agenda that would restore dignity and living standards to all Americans." -- Joseph Stiglitz

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Book SynopsisWhen most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republican Party?In The Right, Matthew Continetti gives a sweeping account of movement conservatism's evolution, from the Progressive Era through the present. He tells the story of how conservatism began as networks of intellectuals, developing and institutionalizing a vision that grew over time, until they began to buckle under new pressures, resembling national populist movements. Drawing out the tensions between the desire for mainstream acceptance and the pull of extremism, Continetti argues that the more one studies conservatism's past, the more one becomes convinced of its future.Deeply researched and brilliantly told, The Right is essential reading for anyone looking to understand American conservatism.

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Book SynopsisA bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation? Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart. Drawing on a series of town hall meetings with representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival. John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in the United States—and concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens on how to reclaim them.Trade ReviewPraise for Holding Together:“A spirited defense of the political and civil rights that Americans enjoy—and that are constantly being chipped away.”—Kirkus Reviews“A lucid primer on many of today’s most pressing political and social issues.”—Publishers Weekly “There is no better book—a blueprint really—to guide us into and past the potentially fractious decade ahead.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land, a finalist for the National Book Award “In an era of corrosive mistrust, this fact-filled guidebook is a vital resource for every citizen to help rescue and uphold free self-government by ‘We the People.’”—Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters “This is an indispensable study, more timely than ever, carefully documenting threats to our rights and eloquent in arguing for measures needed to come to their defense.”—Sissela Bok, philosopher, ethicist, and author of Lying “An immensely valuable and engaging book. . . . No matter what your views are, you will come away much wiser about the challenges facing all who seek to build a good society.”—E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy “Everyone looking for a path to safeguard the future of our democracy should read this book.”—Archon Fung, co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project and professor of citizenship and democracy at Harvard University “A powerful account of today’s rights crisis in America . . . this book helps us imagine a future of rights for everyone.”—Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU “The heart of Holding Together is resoundingly hopeful. Shattuck, Raman, and Risse provide a timely call to action for everyone who is concerned with closing the gap between our democratic ideals and what is real.”—Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

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Book SynopsisTom Paine is celebrated for the part he played in both the American and French Revolutions. Though an Englishman by birth, he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England and in favour of radical reform. So well thought of was he outside Great Britain that he became a distinguished public figure in both France and the United States. RIGHTS OF MAN and COMMON SENSE are the two short books in which he elaborates his political and social theories in vivid, simple prose which can still be read with pleasure and excitement today. These are among the foundling texts of the radical tradition in America and Western Europe.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. During the 1980s and 1990s, financial markets became part of daily life for many Britons as the practice of investing moved away from the offices of the City of London, onto Britain's high streets, and into people's homes. The Conservative Party claimed this shift as evidence that capital ownership was in the process of being democratized. In practice, investing became more institutionalized than ever in late-twentieth-century Britain: inclusion frequently meant tying one's fortunes to the credit, insurance, pension, and mortgage industries to maintain independence from state-run support systems. In tracing the rise of a consumer-oriented mass investment culture, historian Amy Edwards explains how the financial became such a central part of British society, not only economically and politically, but socially and culturally, toTrade Review"One consequence of depicting neoliberalism as the product of a multifaceted process involving many actors and causal factors is that the prospect of undertaking meaningful reform starts to look daunting. But Edwards shows us that the central difficulty is a cultural one: we have been taught for many years to live our lives as consumers rather than citizens." * London Review of Books *"Taken as a whole, Edwards’ reconnaissance into this area is a masterly mix of disciplines, approaches and sources that will reward many re-readings. The revolution of habits and outlooks that was the hallmark of the 1980s do require those sensitive cross-disciplinary approaches: Edwards shows others how it should be done." * Contemporary British History *"This book is an excellent addition to the history of stock market investment in the UK during the past 50 or so years. It gives needed coverage to important but overlooked topics such as shareholder perks and OTC traders." * EH.net *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “A Wonderful Growth”: Investment Culture from 1840 to 1980 2. Over the Counter: Speculation and the Small Investor 3. Shopping for Shares: The Rise of Financial Consumerism 4. “The Moneymen’s Sunday Sermon”: The Making of a Mass-Market Financial Advice Industry 5. Yuppies: Finance and Investment in Popular Culture 6. Are We Rich Yet? Investment Clubs and Investor Activism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, this book traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. It argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2014 Presidents' Book Award, Western Social Science Association Shortlisted for the 2012 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society "[I]ntelligent."--Kenneth Minogue, Wall Street Journal "In impressive fashion, Jones analyzes the impact of free market economics and deregulation on political leaders in Washington, D.C., and London since the 1970s... [A]nyone intrigued by the intersection of economic theory and political affairs will appreciate this learned, detailed book."--Publishers Weekly "Mr. Stedman Jones offers a novel and comprehensive history of neoliberalism. It is tarred neither by a reverence for the heroes, nor by caricature, for he is a fair and nuanced writer. This is a bold biography of a great idea."--Economist "Clearly written and relevant to a wide audience."--Daniel Ben-Ami, Financial Times Wealth "Jones gives us the best kind of intellectual history, showing the interplay of ideas, ideology and nascent political movements. The book should be lauded for illustrating that the history of ideas is not straightforward, and a big idea can be bent towards something that its originators might not have imagined."--Joel Campbell, International Affairs "A cerebral, pertinent exegesis on the thinking behind the rise of the New Right... [A] valuable study that helps flesh out the caricature of conservatives as only believing 'greed is good.'"--Kirkus Reviews "[A] good read... The deep history of neo-liberal thought is fascinating."--Andrew Hilton, Financial World "[I]mportant... [A] beguilingly erudite old-fashioned read."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "Stedman Jones ... describes the scene with remarkable accuracy, including its financial underpinning and its ties with conservatism."--Karen Horn, Standpoint "[A] lucid, richly detailed examination of the evolution of the free market ideology since the end of World War II."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Masters of the Universe is a firm brief for the independent, causal power of ideas to shape history... [It] does much to help explain the aftermath of 2008 and the ways in which political responses that might have defined another era seem unthinkable in ours."--Jennifer Burns, American Prospect "His lengthy exposition of the views shared by these outstanding economists might encourage many to pay attention to their works."--Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes "This is a timely history of the Anglo-American love affair with the market and the origins of the current economic crisis."--Keith Richmond, Tribune (U.K.) "[T]his is an insightful, substantive historical account of the Anglo-American political economy underpinning the conservative economic agendas of the Thatcher and Reagan administrations."--Choice "Fascinating, important, and timely, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the history behind the Anglo-American love affair with the free market, as well as the origins of the current economic crisis."--World Book Industry "The book as a whole ... offers a balanced, well-structured and highly readable account of neo-liberalism's history which will serve both students and scholars as an introduction to this controversial line of economic thought."--Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler, Political Studies Review "This is a very important book... [T]he book is essential reading, both to know the history of neo-liberalism and to understand how it impacted on both Labour and Democrat administrations as well as those of the Reaganite and Thatcherite right."--Duncan Bowie, Chartist "Jones provides a balanced and even-handed account of the ideas and events. He does not shy away from contemporary critiques by leading economists and opponents of Neoliberal ideas."--Braham Dabscheck, Labour History "Jones brilliantly succeeds, thanks to his obvious mastery of the main neoliberal texts, his very astute use of historical archives (like the Hayek or Friedman Papers), and the many interviews he conducted with key neoliberal players in Europe and America."--Francoise Coste, Cercles "Masters of the Universe is an excellent and important book. It is very clearly structured, accessible, well-written, and rigorously argued. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the rise and spread of neoliberal ideas... [I]t will be a great source for both non-specialists interested in neoliberalism and scholars working on neoliberalism."--Lars Cornelissen, Plurilogue "[A] terrific book."--Enlightened Economist "Masters of the Universe does a masterful job telling one of the most important intellectual and policymaking stories of the twentieth century."--John L. Campbell, Historian "Jones provides a readable and laudable account of the history of neoliberalism and its political ascendancy. Besides containing the potential for a good documentary... His book also showcases heretofore unacknowledged archival material and scholarly synthesis. I recommend this book to not only historians of economics, but all policy historians and political theorists who are interested in the postwar history of the New Right."--Robert Van Horn, History of Economic IdeasTable of ContentsPreface to the paperback edition ix Acknowledgments xiii Timeline xv List of Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 The Three Phases of Neoliberalism 6 Neoliberalism and History 10 Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics 15 1.The Postwar Settlement 21 2.The 1940s: The Emergence of the Neoliberal Critique 30 Karl Popper and "The Open Society" 37 Ludwig von Mises and "Bureaucracy" 49 Friedrich Hayek and "The Road to Serfdom" 57 The Mont Pelerin Society and "The Intellectuals and Socialism" 73 3.The Rising Tide: Neoliberal Ideas in the Postwar Period 85 The Two Chicago Schools: Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, and Neoliberalism 89 The Enlightenment, Adam Smith and Neoliberalism 100 Economic and Political Freedom: Milton Friedman and Cold War Neoliberalism 111 The German Economic Miracle: Neoliberalism and the Soziale Marktwirtschaft 121 Regulatory Capture, Public Choice, and Rational Choice Theory 126 4.A Transatlantic Network: Think Tanks and the Ideological Entrepreneurs 134 The United States in the 1950s: Fusionism and the Cold War 138 British Conservatism in the 1950s 147 Neoliberal Organization in the 1950s and 1960s 152 The Second Wave: Free Market Think Tanks in the 1970s 161 Neoliberal Journalists and Politicians 173 Breakthrough? 178 5.Keynesianism and the Emergence of Monetarism, 1945-71 180 Keynes and Keynesianism 182 "A Little Local Difficulty": Enoch Powell's Monetarism 190 American Economic Policy in the 1960s 197 Milton Friedman's Monetarism 201 The Gathering Storm 212 6.Economic Strategy: The Neoliberal Breakthrough, 1971-84 215 The Slow Collapse of the Postwar Boom, 1964-71 217 Stagflation and Wage and Price Policies 225 The Heath Interregnum and the Neoliberal Alternative 230 The Left Turns to Monetarism, 1: Callaghan, Healey, and the IMF Crisis 241 The Left Turns to Monetarism, 2: Jimmy Carter and Paul Volcker's Federal Reserve 247 Thatcherite Economic Strategy 254 Reaganomics 263 Conclusion 269 7.Neoliberalism Applied? The Transformation of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the United States and Britain, 1945-2000 273 Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in the United States 278 Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in Britain 288 Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Government 295 Property-Owning Democracy and Individual Freedom: Housing and Neoliberal Ideas 297 The Reagan Administration 304 Council House Privatization: The Right to Buy Scheme 308 Transatlantic Transmissions: Reagan's Enterprise Zones 315 Hope VI, Urban Regeneration, and the Third Way 321 Conclusion 325 Conclusion The Legacy of Transatlantic Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Policy 329 Parallelisms: The Place of Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics in History 333 The Apotheosis of Neoliberalism? 338 Reason-Based Policymaking 343 Notes 347 Index 391

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Book SynopsisA bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth centuryTrade Review“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times“Fascinating.”—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs“Electric to read in this moment, and I strongly recommend.”—Ezra Klein, on Twitter“Substantive, very well written. . . . Rich and provocative.”—Daniel J. Mahoney, Law & Liberty“The radical right promises its followers fellowship and collective distinction as opposed to anonymity and alienation. It urges a heroic struggle rather than comfort, security, and ediocrity. How we respond to these thinkers will depend on how well we understand them. With this in mind, Rose is shining a much-needed light.”—Alejandro Castrillón, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy“‘I get bored by reading people who are allies,’ liberal Isaiah Berlin once remarked. ‘What is interesting is to read the enemy, because the enemy penetrates the defences.’ Even for those more suspicious than Matthew Rose of once peripheral twentieth-century sages of the far right, this book is useful reading, for transatlantic politics are leading more people to revive these idiosyncratic but interesting reactionaries. Rose draws his portraits well; more every day, his gallery is worth the visit.”—Samuel Moyn, Yale University“This is one of the best discussions of the extreme right’s intellectual foundations that I have ever read. It provides a balanced, thoughtful approach to a movement that we must take very seriously.”—George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right“This book changed the way I think about radical right wing politics in America and Europe. Matthew Rose’s subjects rarely appear in conventional histories of conservative thought, but his nuanced, humane analysis shows that anyone who wants to understand today’s alt-right and the populist backlash against liberalism needs to take them seriously.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“The five thinkers surveyed in this even-tempered book lie far outside the orbit of conventional liberal thought. But no liberal, progressive or conservative, can afford to ignore the challenge they pose. Anyone who wants to understand the origin and appeal of the alt-right needs to start here.”—Anthony Kronman, author of The Assault on American Excellence“A fascinating read. I could not put it down. Rose tells the story of a transnational radical right, which is far more intelligent and worldly than the liberal-left claims.”—Tamir Bar-on, Tecnológico de Monterrey, School of Social Sciences and Government

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Book SynopsisFrom the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought.Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit and despair. When, at the age of 13, he found out that his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: ''To be good, you had to be on the Left.''Today he''s no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why is it that apologies for a militant Islam that stands for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of the Left? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic''s ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Trade Review'A roaring polemic of outrage against the moral and political crisis of the liberal tradition. It is already one of the most discussed current affairs books of the new year…At the very least it forces anyone on the left to think carefully about where their movement has ended up in the modern world.' The Guardian ‘The book is a superbly sustained polemic.' Sunday Times ‘Exceptional and necessary…Do not feel you have to be a leftist or liberal to read it, because it engages with an argument that it crucial for all of us, and for our time.’ Christopher Hitchens, Sunday Times ‘This is a brave, honest and brilliant book. Every page has a provocative insight that makes you want to shake the author's hand or collar him for an argument. Who could ask for more?’ The Observer '(He writes with) a genuine passion and human sympathy about people who have experienced appalling suffering.' Michael Burleigh, The Evening Standard ‘Undoubtedly controversial and provocative “What’s Left?” is, as its title suggests, a bleakly witty but perhaps dimly hopeful examination of what it means to be liberal in an age where the lines that have been drawn in the sand are in danger of being washed away.’ Waterstones Books Quarterly ‘One of the most powerful denunciations of the manner in which the Left has lost its way…Cohen's is a brave voice.'Michael Gove, The Spectator 'Nick Cohen explains how contemporary liberals have lost their way with his usual polemical brio.' The Observer 'An essay of wide reference and great brilliance.' John Lloyd, Financial Times

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Christopher Rufo is in fact one of the most effective journalists and filmmakers in the country.” — Tucker Carlson “Christopher Rufo … has done more than anybody else in our country on exposing CRT.” — Governor Ron DeSantis “The most important and effective conservative activist in the country.” — Bari Weiss “International-class troublemaker and policy advisor on the culture war.” — Dr. Jordan Peterson “One of the most important journalists in the country.” — Ben Shapiro “Christopher Rufo has had an extremely significant impact on our political discourse.” — Glenn Greenwald “The country’s pre-eminent critic of critical race theory.” — The New York Times “The most important intellectual entrepreneur on the political right today.” — Vox “One of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.” — The Atlantic

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Book SynopsisA GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR ''A whodunnit political page-turner'' Melissa Benn, New Statesman ''The best political book I have read for a long while'' Rod Liddle, The Spectator From the No.1 bestselling author of The Establishment, an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain - goes nextWe live in an age of upheaval. The global crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the deep social and economic inequalities which were the toxic legacy of austerity. These revolutionary times are an opportunity for a radical rethink of Britain as we know it, as the politically impossible suddenly becomes imaginable. And yet, the Left''s last attempt to upend the established order and transform millions of lives came to a crashing halt on 12th December 2019, when Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour party to its worst electoral defeat since 1935. In This Land, Owen Jones provides an insider''s honest and unflinching appraisal of a movement: how it promised to change everything, why it went so badly wrong, where this failure leaves its values and ideas, and where the Left goes next in the new world we find ourselves in.He takes us on a compelling, page-turning journey through a tumultuous decade in British politics, gaining unprecedented access to key figures across the political spectrum. It is a tale of high hopes and hubris, dysfunction and disillusionment. There is, Jones urges, no future for any progressive project that does not face up to and learn from its errors. We have the opportunity to build a fairer country and a more equal world, but if our time is to come, then we must learn from our past.''An absorbing, nuanced account of the making of electoral disaster'' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian Trade ReviewOwen Jones has managed to produce a whodunnit political page-turner and a surprisingly fair account (given that Jones was a player in the Corbyn project) of both an inspiring and tortuous period of Labour history. -- Melissa Benn * New Statesman *An absorbing, nuanced account of the making of electoral disaster. -- Gaby Hinsliff * Guardian *Very, very powerful ... you will not come away from reading This Land without your understanding of what happened to the Labour Party over the last five years massively enhanced. -- James O'BrienFor Owen Jones, the drama of these years is almost Shakespearean... Where Jones is strongest, and impressively so, is when he turns his analytical gaze on his own side. His dissection of the anti-Semitism issue is heartfelt and intelligent. His account of the infighting and weakness of the leader's team rings true... He correctly observes that Brexit left Labour on a hook. -- Robert Shrimsley * Financial Times *Jones has [a hard] task: to assess the failure of a project he championed, in which he was a significant player, and which depended on the work and was damaged by the flaws of people he is close to. It is a far more honest account of those difficulties than is ever given by journalists of the political centre, or the right ... Jones has made a serious attempt to understand the left's weaknesses as something other than the fault of the party's right ... Jones is making a brutal assessment, of the sort too often lacking in the past few years, of what is possible. -- James Butler * London Review of Books *Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our time * The Times Literary Supplement *The best political book I have read for a long while, all the better for Jones's unashamed participant observation. -- Rod Liddle * The Spectator *

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Book SynopsisThis volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill''s great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of abiding concern, particularly the desirability of sustained growth of national wealth and population versus a stationary state, the merits of capitalism versus socialism, and the expedient scope of government intervention in the competitive market economy. His answers to those questions have considerable relevance today, and they serve to illustrate the enduring power and imagination of his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy. In his introduction, Jonathan Riley clarifies Mill''s approach, considers what constitutes the Millian Utopia, and shows how examination of such an ideal society provides valuable insights into the structure of his philosophy. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature

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Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship, and democracy. In the most alarmist views, the West's most cherished valuesfreedom, equality, and toleranceare said to be endangered by Islam worldwide. Joseph Massad'sIslam in Liberalismexplores what Islam has become in today's world, with full attention to the multiplication of its meanings and interpretations. He seeks to understand how anxieties about tyranny, intolerance, misogyny, and homophobia, seen in the politics of the Middle East, are projected onto Islam itself. Massad shows that through this projection Europe emerges as democratic and tolerant, feminist, and pro-LGBT rightsor, in short, Islam-free. Massad documents the Christian and liberal idea that we should missionize democracy, women's rights, sexual rights, tolerance,

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Book SynopsisTim Farron’s account of his involvement in the turbulent politics of recent years offers a wealth of insight into life at the top of a major political party and the prospects for true liberalism in Britain today.Trade Review‘Tim Farron tells a fascinating story of family, football, faith, music and politics. It is a story about private and public, highs and lows, passion, pressure and pain . . . Many of us can learn from this book. I am certain that, with gratitude, many will.’ * Sir Simon Hughes, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties, 2013–15 *‘Those who know Tim Farron personally will not be surprised by this book. They know his anger at injustice and his generosity of spirit at first hand. I would recommend this book to anyone who knows him only from headlines. You may not agree with everything he says, but you will be a whole lot wiser.’ * Andy Flannagan, Executive Director, Christians in Politics *‘Tim Farron knows better than anyone the stresses and challenges of leading a party in the febrile politics of our time. But this is not a conventional political biography. It reveals in frank and courageous detail the acute conflict between political loyalty and religious commitment.’ * Sir Menzies Campbell, Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats *‘A provocative read for many in politics who would rather all politicians thought the same.’ * Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor, The Spectator *‘Refreshingly frank, humble, faithful and full of grace.’ * David Burrowes, former Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate *

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Book SynopsisTraversing much of Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, this new collection offers a fresh understanding of the seemingly paradoxical nexus between liberal Europeans and imperialism during the long nineteenth century. Bringing together leading scholars from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and political science, it redefines the contours of research into European history by illustrating that it was not only the liberal politicians, writers and civic leaders of Britain and France who believed that empires could be vehicles for progress.Table of ContentsParticular or Universal?: Historicising Liberal Approaches to Empire in Europe. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Imperialism after the Great Wave: The Dutch Case in the Netherlands East Indies, 1860-1914—Elsbeth Locher-Scholten Italy, Liberalism and the Age of Empire—Giuseppi Finaldi Russian Liberalism and the Problem of Imperial Diversity—Alexander Semyonov Liberty, Equality and Nationality: National Liberalism, Modernization and Empire in Hungary in the 19th Century—László Kürti From Independence to Trialism: The Croatian Party of Right and the Project for a Liberal 'Greater Croatia' within the Habsburg Empire, 1861-1914—Nevenko Bartulin Between Völkisch and Universal Visions of Empire: Liberal Imperialism in Mitteleuropa 1890-1918—Eric Kurlander An Empire of Scientific Experts: Polish Physicians and the Medicalization of the German Borderlands, 1880-1914—Lenny A. Ureña Valerio The Ottoman Empire's Negotiation of Western Liberal Imperialism—Fatma Müge-Göçek and Murat Özyüksel British and Greek Liberalism and Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century—Andrekos Varnava

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Book SynopsisIn this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is structured around a repurposing of the guardrail' concept, commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive guardrails' are identified, which define a boundary between safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change. The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data from interviews with opiTrade Review"In Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, Chris Shaw effectively, provocatively but accessibly, demolishes the cosy consensus that political and economic liberalism is capable of responding to the existential threat of climate change. With their emphasis on individualism, protecting the freedoms of capital, the primary of western scientific thought and faith in technological fixes, dominant liberal ideologies are having to confront their own crises and contradictions. This book expertly surveys and critiques these belief systems and imaginaries before exploring some of their contenders. It will be of interest to a range of students, scholars and practitioners working on climate change."Peter Newell, University of Sussex and Research Director of the Rapid Transition Alliance"Chris Shaw's essential and urgent book addresses the failure and fundamental inadequacy of current attempts to address the climate crisis. With disquieting clarity, he demonstrates how even well-intentioned participants in projects for preserving a livable planet are trapped within conceptual frameworks or paradigms that a priori prevent the emergence of meaningful strategies for averting catastrophe."Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, New York "Words fail us when confronted with the challenges posed by climate change. Deeds fail us as well. As Chris Shaw demonstrates in this book, we are trapped in an ideological network spun by liberalism. This makes us blind to alternative and more radical ways of approaching climate change from a less individualistic and more communitarian perspective. This book should be read by anybody interested in understanding the climate change impasse in which the world finds itself. Understanding it is a precondition to moving beyond it." Brigitte Nerlich, Emeritus Professor of Science, Language and Society, University of Nottingham"Chris Shaw is steeped in the sociology and politics of climate change. In this book he argues elegantly and powerfully across a range of areas that climate change is intertwined with liberalism and that this blocks any solution to the climate crisis." Luke Martell, Author of Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist SocialismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceIntroductionFive liberal climate guardrailsThe liberal language of climate changeDefinitions of liberalismGeographical focusWhy liberalism’s time is up on climate changeThe structure of this bookConclusionChapter 1. The struggles of climate liberalism1.1 Sublimating paradox1.2 The best of all possible worlds, the worst of all possible worlds1.3 Freedom from, or freedom to?1.4 Anarchy and order1.5 Openness to new ideas vs the reproduction of liberalism 1.6 The five liberal climate guardrails 1.7 ConclusionChapter 2: Climate change is not a challenge to individualism. 2.1 A visit to the circus2.2 Creating the climate individual2.3 The search for individual free will2.4 Hegemonic climate communication2.5 ConclusionChapter 3. The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. 3.1 Guardrail 2: The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. 3.2 Institutional norms and the liberal imperialism of climate change3.3 The communication of liberal institutional norms in climate discourses3.4 Climate targets and the communication of liberal norms3.5 The denial of uncertainty and the denial of climate justice3.6 Local experiences of a global phenomenon3.7 ConclusionChapter 4: Climate change is not an historical phenomenon. 4.1 Removing history from the climate debate4.2 De-historicising the transformation4.3 Removing the working class from the transformation4.4 Intellectuals and the de-historicising of climate change4.5 Living with the past4.6 ConclusionChapter 5. Guardrail 4: Climate change will be solved through technological innovation. 5.1 Substituting technology for progress5.2 Science against democracy5.3 Selling technological responses to climate change5.4 ConclusionChapter 6: Climate Guardrail 5: Sustainable lifestyles will emerge from the appropriate cultural cues and leadership. 6.1: Stories, myths and other fairy tales6.2 Can new stories create new worlds?6.3 Culture as control6.4 Creating orderly transitions through stories6.5 Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth. 6.6 What We Think About When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action. 6.7 ConclusionChapter 7: Maybe tomorrow7.1 Interview methodology 7.2 Results from the interview analysis7.2.1 Freely choosing a future of fewer freedoms7.2.2 The individual’s role in creating the conditions for a system of fossil fuel free exploitation7.2.3. Searching for mushrooms7.2.4 Keep your head down whilst waiting for the change to come7.2.5. Substituting politics with science and technology 7.2.6 Talking climate7.2.7 So much to do, such little time7.2.8 Waiting for politicians7.2.9 What’s the problem? 7.2.10 It’s not just the climate7.3 ConclusionChapter 8: Conclusion: What future?8.1 Is there a there there?8.2 The limits of the individual in a world of limits8.3 You shall have no other gods but science8.4 We can’t do this on our own8.5 A peasant prospectIndex

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