1st Edition
American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century
Edited By William F. Buckley Jr.
Copyright 2011
628 Pages
by
Routledge
628 Pages
by
Routledge
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If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion, economics, and social thought. Conservatism forms a dissent within the liberal tradition, and also deserves a hearing from any serious student of American history. William F. Buckley, Jr. brought this issue to the... Read more
1: The Historical and Intellectual Background; 1: The Convenient State; 2: E Pluribus Unum: The American Consensus; 3: The Unwritten Constitution; 4: The Recrudescent American Conservatism; 2: The Limitations of the State; 5: The Masses in Representative Democracy; 6: Anarchist’s Progress; 7: Economics in One Lesson; 8: Freedom and the Planned Economy; 9: Capitalism and Freedom: A Concluding Note; 3: Contemporary Challenges and the Social Order; 10: On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty; 11: Democracy: The Two Majorities; 12: Communism: The Struggle for the World; 13: Race: Claims, Rights, and Prospects; 14: Planned Mediocrity in the Public Schools; 15: The City: Some Myths About Diversity; 16: The Problem of the New Order; 17: The New Scholarship: The Relevance of “The Reactionaries”; 4: The Relevance of Social Science; 18: The New Political Science; 19: Sociology and the Theory of Progress; 20: Gnosticism— The Nature of Modernity; 21: Burke and Radical Freedom; 5: The Spiritual Crisis; 22: The Direct Glance; 23: Isaiah’s Job; 24: Christmas in Christendom; 25: Epilogue
Biography
William F. Buckley Jr.
