New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, by Anthony Gregory, Harvard University Press, 512 pages, $45 How did we get here? Many focus on the ways Presidents ...
Secular liberal values are Christianity’s gift to the world, he believes, and he backs up his contention with a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian ...
Moreover, liberalism as a centuries’ old ideology has evolved and given birth to a diversity of strands beyond just the main classical versus modern liberalism divide. These include liberal feminism, ...
These modern ideas are then enforced by the powerful state (the Leviathan, as Thomas Hobbes puts is) in order to achieve “progress”. The power of the state is necessary, because these ideas about ...
"Thou shalt not sin. Thou shalt not be merry." This seems to be the new Liberal creed. The world is painted as a perpetually bad place, and education is equated with constant seriousness, outrage, and ...