The Closing Of The Liberal Mind How Groupthink And Intolerance Define The Left Kim R Holmes by Kim R. Holmes 9781594038518, 1594038511 instant download after payment.

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former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished
Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of
liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its
opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and
respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which
the country was founded, and becoming instead an intolerant, rigidly
dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent and stifles free speech. Tracing
the new illiberalism historically to the radical Enlightenment, a
movement that rejected the classic liberal ideas of the moderate
Enlightenment that were prominent in the American Founding, Holmes
argues that today’s liberalism has forsaken its American roots,
incorporating instead the authoritarian, anti-clerical, and
anti-capitalist prejudices of the radical and largely European Left. The
result is a closing of the American liberal mind. Where once freedom of
speech and expression were sacrosanct, today liberalism employs speech
codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, and shaming rituals to stifle freedom
of thought, expression, and action. It is no longer appropriate to call
it liberalism at all, but illiberalism—a set of ideas in politics,
government, and popular culture that increasingly reflects authoritarian
and even anti-democratic values, and which is devising new strategies
of exclusiveness to eliminate certain ideas and people from the
political process. Although illiberalism has always been a temptation
for American liberals, lurking in the radical fringes of the Left, it is
today the dominant ideology of progressive liberal circles. This makes
it a new danger not only to the once venerable tradition of liberalism,
but to the American nation itself, which needs a viable liberal
tradition that pursues social and economic equality while respecting
individual liberties.About
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