Crisis of the two constitutions : the rise, decline, and recovery of American greatness
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
342.29/KESLER,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 342.29/KESLER,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Encounter Books, 2020
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION

451 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781641771023, 164177102X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Education, Cultural Relativism, and the American Founding -- Natural Right in the American Revolution -- The Founders and the Classics -- Federalist 10 and American Republicanism -- The Promise of American Citizenship -- Civility and Citizenship -- Education and Politics -- A New Birth of Freedom -- The Crisis of American National Identity -- Democracy and the Bush Doctrine -- Woodrow Wilson and the Statesmanship of Progress -- Separation of Powers and the Administrative State -- The Reagan Revolution and the Legacy of the New Deal -- What's Wrong with Conservatism -- The Conservative Challenge -- The Old New Left and the New New Left -- Trump and the Conservative Cause

"If Conservatism is to succeed and thrive, it must return to its American roots (not Burke or the common law, or Kirk and traditionalism, or libertarianism and Hayek) Donald Trump understands, in a common sense and political way, the principles of the Founding and how they should be applied to forge a new governing coalition. The neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has more in common with progressivism than with the American Founding. Politics is not "downstream from culture" because politics, especially political foundings, create the culture of a country. Multiculturalism and identity politics, and their notion of group rights, is incompatible with the nation state, citizenship, and the protection of rights as America's Founders those things"--