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30 leading thinkers identify new threats to our liberties -- and show us how to fight back
New Threats to Freedom: From Banning Ice Cream Trucks in Brooklyn to Abandoning Democracy Around the World: Thirty Great Writers on Cultural Trends that are Undermining Our Liberties
by Adam Bellow
On June 8, 1978, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a
famous commencement address at Harvard University in which,
to the dismay of his self-satisfied audience, he bitterly
attacked the West's loss of moral courage in the defense of
freedom. Who offers such warnings today? Which writers and
intellectuals have taken upon themselves the defense of
freedom on a high moral plane? In New Threats to Freedom: From Banning Ice Cream Trucks in Brooklyn to Abandoning Democracy Around the World: Thirty Great Writers on Cultural Trends that are Undermining Our Liberties, editor and author Adam Bellow
has assembled an all-star line up of 30 innovative thinkers
to reflect on the cultural trends that are now undermining
our liberties.
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Some of the authors represented here leap into already
raging debates on issues such as Sharia law in the West,
the rise of transnationalism, and the regulatory state.
Others turn their attention to less obvious threats, such
as the dogma of fairness, the failed promises of the
blogosphere, and the triumph of behavioral psychology.
Among the contributors and essays assembled here:
- Anne Applebaum, The Decline of American Press Freedom:
How self-censorship by the media is becoming a real
threat to our freedoms of speech and the press.
- Bruce Bawer, The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How calling
yourself a "liberal" is now as much a statement of
personal style as it is a political statement
- Peter Berkowitz, The New Dogma of Fairness: How the
fairness has been warped to mean "equal outcomes for all"
- Max Borders, The Urge to Regulate: How regulation is
making it difficult to live the American dream
- Richard A. Epstein, The Isolation of Today's Classical
Liberal: Why the chief domestic threat to political
liberty is the loss of classical liberal values of
private property and freedom of contract and association
- Jessica Gavora, Single Women As A Threat To Freedom: How,
as more women forego marriage, they are becoming
increasingly dependent on the state, and what they means
- Michael Goodwin, The Loss of the Freedom to Fail: Why
today's attempts to subvert the freedom to fail are also
an attack on the freedom to succeed
- Daniel Hannan, The European Union as a Threat to Freedom:
How the EU is positioning itself as an alternative to the
American ideal of representative government
- Mark Helprin, The Rise of Antireligious Orthodoxy: How
militant atheists seeking to obliterate religion not only
from the public sphere but the private sphere as well
- Christopher Hitchens, Multiculturalism and the Threat of
Conformity: How the modern emphasis on diversity and
sensitivity results in a forced intellectual conformity
- Greg Lukianoff, Students Against Liberty?: How the
American college campus is one of the most repressive
environments in the country when it comes to free speech
- Katherine Mangu-Ward, The War on Negative Liberty: How
government efforts to keep us from smoking, making poor
financial choices or eating unhealthy things interferes
with our "negative liberty" to live and do as we please
- Tara McKelvey, The Abandonment of Democracy Promotion:
Why the current administration has retreated too far from
this traditional goal of American foreign policy
- Michael C. Moynihan, The Anticapitalists: How the recent
economic turmoil has led to a resurgence of anti-
capitalist thought that threatens America's prosperity
- Chris Norwood, The Rise of Mass Dependency: How billions
of dollars are once again being poured into programs,
institutions, and bureaucracies whose actual result is to
turn once-active citizens into permanent dependents
- Naomi Schaefer Riley, Threats to Philanthropic Freedom:
How Congress is considering to new laws that could give
the government control over private philanthropies
- Stephen Schwartz, Shariah in the West: How some
politicians efforts to accommodate the demands of Muslim
"sharia" law will subvert our own legal protections
And 15 more brilliant authors and essays!
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