The once and future liberal : after identity politics
Lilla, Mark (Pengarang)
Tersedia di:
Deskripsi
In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla offers an impassioned, tough-minded, and stinging look at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations. Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly 40 years the vision that Ronald Reagan offered—small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism—has remained the country’s dominant political ideology. And the Democratic Party has offered no convincing competing vision in response. Instead, as Lilla argues, American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. With dire consequences. Lilla goes on to show how the left’s identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated. Now they have an opportunity to reset. The left is motivated, and the Republican Party, led by an unpredictable demagogue, is in ideological disarray. To seize this opportunity, Lilla insists, liberals must concentrate their efforts on recapturing our institutions by winning elections. The time for hectoring is over. It is time to reach out and start persuading people from every walk of life and in every region of the country that liberals will stand up for them. We must appeal to – but also help to rebuild – a sense of common feeling among Americans, and a sense of duty to each other. A fiercely-argued, no-nonsense book, enlivened by Lilla’s acerbic wit and erudition, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our momentous times.
Ulasan
Buku Rekomendasi Lainnya
Budak pulau surga Soegianto Sastrodiwiryo ; ed. Eno Suwandi
SASTRODIWIRYO, Soegianto
Nabiku idolaku 25 Nabi Teladan sepaanjang zaman : Nabi Nuh dan Nabi Hud
Eka WARDHANA
Travel Easy, Travel Happy : Panduan Praktis Budget Traveling
Edwin Santoso
How to create a smart kids ? : cara praktis menciptakan anak sehat dan cerdas
Virzara Auryn (Pengarang) ; Abdul Qodir Shaleh (editor)
Detektif Muda Arva : Misteri Pesan Kematian Sang Maestro
Destyan (Pengarang)
Naik..naik ke puncak gunung : Aku Sayang Bumi
-
Budidaya Lombok
-
Asyik belajar Mandarin untuk anak-anak 2
Xun, Liu (Pengarang) ; Yajun, Zhang (Pengarang) ; Yongshou, Dong (Pengarang) ; Thani Kusmalinda (Penerjemah) ; Larissa Adinda (Penyunting)
Senja di Jakarta
Ahmad Gaus (Pengarang)
Sssh, Air panas mengalir dari batu
Erlita Pratiwi (Pengarang) ; InnerChild Studio (Ilustrator)
Hanna
Winka (Pengarang) ; Akmalia (Penyunting) ; Hannie Coco (Ilustrator)
Petualangan Bagus ke candi Borobudur
Matthew Senangsa (Pengarang) ; Tim Hikam (Penyunting) ; Tim Hikam (Penyunting)
Hukum Jaminan : Konsep dan Pengaturannya di Indonesia
Uswatun Hasanah (Pengarang)
Semangat kebangsaan : Seri fabel Abi
Anee Rahman (Pengarang) ; Hermansyah (Ilustrator)