War and the Liberal Conscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and the Liberal Conscience write by Michael Howard. This book was released on 2008. War and the Liberal Conscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir Michael Howard traces the pattern in the attitudes of liberal-minded men and women in the face of war, from Erasmus to the Americans after Vietnam, and concludes that peacemaking is a task which has to be tackled afresh every day of our lives.
The Conscience of a Liberal
The Conscience of a Liberal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conscience of a Liberal write by Paul Krugman. This book was released on 2009-01-12. The Conscience of a Liberal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a "stimulating manifesto" offering "a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny" (Publishers Weekly). "As Democrats seek a rationale not merely for returning to power, but for fundamentally changing—or changing back—the relationship between America's government and its citizens, Mr. Krugman's arguments will prove vital in the months and years ahead." —Peter Beinart, New York Times
The Liberal Conscience
The Liberal Conscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liberal Conscience write by Lucas Swaine. This book was released on 2006. The Liberal Conscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bold work offers solutions to the seemingly irreconcilable divide between liberal society and theocracy by reasserting the importance of the liberty of conscience and principles of religious toleration.
Conscience and Its Enemies
Conscience and Its Enemies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conscience and Its Enemies write by Robert P. George. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Conscience and Its Enemies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Many in elite circles yield to the temptation to believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot or a religious fundamentalist. Reason and science, they confidently believe, are on their side. With this book, I aim to expose the emptiness of that belief.” From the introduction: Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer. Here, at last, is the counterattack. Showcasing the talents that have made him one of America’s most acclaimed and influential thinkers, Robert P. George explodes the myth that the secular elite represents the voice of reason. In fact, George shows, it is on the elite side of the cultural divide where the prevailing views frequently are nothing but articles of faith. Conscience and Its Enemies reveals the bankruptcy of these too often smugly held orthodoxies while presenting powerfully reasoned arguments for classical virtues.
War and the Liberal Conscience
War and the Liberal Conscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and the Liberal Conscience write by Michael Howard. This book was released on 1978. War and the Liberal Conscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries liberal minded men have been horrified by the pain and waste of war. From Erasmus, who saw war above all as a product of stupidity, to the Marxists who see it as a matter of class conflict, they have produced social theories to account for its occurrence and have tried to devise means to end it. Their prescriptions have been various. The central view of the Enlightenment was that wars would end when the ambitions of princes could be curbed by the sanity of ordinary men. At first the commercial classes seemed to be the new force that would produce this happy state, but by the end of the nineteenth century they themselves (the 'capitalists') were being stigmatized as the instigators of war. Similarly, the nineteenth-century liberals at first believed that the rise of the new independent nation-states of Europe would lead to a permanent peace as the wishes of the masses (naturally peace-loving) were able to express themselves. Again, the supposed agents of peace were soon seen as a prime cause of wars. Despite these contradictions there have been certain continuing themes in the search for a means to end wars, and one of the most enlightening things in this book is they way in which it is possible to see how these themes recur in subtly different forms in different periods of history. Professor Howard traces them from the renaissance to our own time, through the social, political and intellectual groups that gave birth to them. Throughout the whole story runs the continuing contrast between those who hoped to find a single cause for the disease, leading to a lasting cure, and those who understood that, in Professor Howard's words, 'this was a task which needs to be tackled afresh every day of our lives'.
