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Book Synopsis The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism by : Antti Lepistö
Download or read book The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism written by Antti Lepistö and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the election of Donald Trump—a victory that hinged on the votes of white Midwesterners who were both geographically and culturally distant from the media’s coastal concentrations—there has been a flurry of investigation into the politics of the so-called “common man.” The notion that the salt-of-the-earth purity implied by this appellation is best understood by conservative politicians is no recent development, though. As Antti Lepistö shows in his timely and erudite book, the intellectual wellsprings of conservative “common sense” discourse are both older and more transnational than has been thought. In considering the luminaries of American neoconservative thought—among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama—Lepistö argues that the centrality of their conception of the common man accounts for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Intriguingly, Lepistö locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment, revealing how leading neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers. Their reconfiguration of Scottish Enlightenment ideas ultimately gave rise to a defining force in modern conservative politics: the common sense of the common man. Whether twenty-first-century politicians who invoke the grievances of “the people” are conscious of this unusual lineage or not, Lepistö explains both the persistence of the trope and the complicity of some conservative thinkers with the Trump regime.
Book Synopsis Common Sense: A Book for Conservatives & Liberals & Moderates to Unite for an Even Better America by : an Oregonian physician
Download or read book Common Sense: A Book for Conservatives & Liberals & Moderates to Unite for an Even Better America written by an Oregonian physician and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism by : Antti Lepistö
Download or read book The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism written by Antti Lepistö and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In considering the lodestars of American neoconservative thought-among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama-Antti Lepistö makes a compelling case for the centrality of their conception of "the common man" in accounting for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Lepistö locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. Subsequently, the neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers-ultimately giving rise to a defining force in American politics: the "common sense" of "the common man.""--
Download or read book Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Download or read book Common Sense written by Keith G Feit and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve score and four years ago, our fathers brought forth onto this continent... A bold new experiment in limited republican government that guaranteed the individual freedom of its citizens. It was a land in which all men were created equal, and liberty flourished with a government of, by, and for the people. The rise of social liberalism and the growth of the welfare state threaten everything the revolutionary generation fought and died for. Only through a return to the constitutional conservatism of the founding fathers can we renew the Spirit of 1776 and ensure the success of the American experiment. The future ofthe American republic is at stake... It's time to renew the Spirit of 1776!
Book Synopsis America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense by : Scott Philip Segrest
Download or read book America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense written by Scott Philip Segrest and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today. In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense, Scott Segrest traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. The first two represent Scottish Common Sense and the third, Pragmatism, the schools that together dominated American higher thought for nearly two centuries. Educated Americans of the founding period warmly received Scottish Common Sense, Segrest writes, because it reflected so well what they already thought, and he uncovers the basic elements of American common sense in examining the thought of Witherspoon, who introduced that philosophy to them. With McCosh, he shows the furthest development and limits of the philosophy, and with it of American common sense in its Scottish realist phase. With James, he shows other dimensions of common sense that Americans had long embraced but that had never been examined philosophically. Clearly, Segrest’s work is much more than an intellectual history. It is a study of the American mind and of common sense itself—its essential character and its human significance, both moral and political. It was common sense, he affirms, that underlay the Declaration of Independence and the founders’ ideas of right and obligation that are still with us today. Segrest suggests that understanding this foundation and James’s refreshing of it could be the key to maintaining America’s vital moral core against a growing alienation from common sense across the Western world. Stressing the urgency of understanding and preserving common sense, Segrest’s work sheds new light on an undervalued aspect of American thought and experience, helping us to perceive the ramifications of commonsense philosophy for dignified living.
Book Synopsis Return to Common Sense by : William Edward Skokos
Download or read book Return to Common Sense written by William Edward Skokos and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an assault on conservative based values by the liberal left; this situation has only been exacerbated by moderate Republicans who have in some cases refused to take a stand. Even the Republican leadership has been timid in engaging the left and holding firm to their moral high ground. Common Sense Conservatism is the antidote for all that troubles our great nation. We must allow Common Sense to dictate our actions if we ever hope to save our way of life from those who wish to destroy America and transform it into a second rate power. What is it in a person's life that sets forth a conservative outlook? Here William Edward Skokos allows us a peak into his experiences for the key to that conservatism. He takes on the policies of both the left and the right as he provides a provocative and well informed explanation of the origins of these policies and what needs to be done in order to turn the tide and revitalize America. His belief and faith in the American people is the key element which he believes will ensure the continuation of the American dream.
Book Synopsis Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left by : Philip K. Howard
Download or read book Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left written by Philip K. Howard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society. In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing will make sense until people are free to roll up their sleeves and make things work. The first steps are to abandon the philosophy of correctness and our devotion to mindless compliance. Americans are a practical people. They want government to be practical. Washington can’t do anything practically. Worse, its bureaucracy prevents Americans from doing what’s sensible. Conservative bluster won’t fix this problem. Liberal hand-wringing won’t work either. Frustrated voters reach for extremist leaders, but they too get bogged down in the bureaucracy that has accumulated over the past century. Howard shows how America can push the reset button and create simpler frameworks focused on public goals where officials—prepare for the shock—are actually accountable for getting the job done.
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world. Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government. Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged. His pamphlet was the first to speak directly to a mass audience—it went through fifty-six editions within a year of publication—and its assertive and often caustic style both embodied the democratic spirit he advocated, and converted thousands of citizens to the cause of American independence.
Download or read book Common Sense II written by Greg Frank and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shatters the myth that giant corporations use to rule our lives. It points the way to a democratic economy." (Back cover).
Book Synopsis Right for a Reason by : Miriam Weaver
Download or read book Right for a Reason written by Miriam Weaver and published by Sentinel. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver started their blog, Chicks on the Right, in 2009, they've discovered tens of thousands of fans who also defy conservative stereotypes. These readers are religious but sometimes curse like sailors. They're traditional, but they love their gay friends and respect their relationships. They're pro-life but also pro-Plan B. On their blog and radio show, and now in this book, the Chicks talk like regular people, not pundits. They use humor to make the case that "conservatism needs a makeover." They argue that a GOP dominated by stodgy old white men in Washington can't win. But they also show why conservatism makes sense for everyone, especially those who love their country, their families, God, rock and roll, and a well-made cocktail (not necessarily in that order)"--
Book Synopsis Common Sense - a Real Party Movement by : James C. Weart
Download or read book Common Sense - a Real Party Movement written by James C. Weart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls for the formation of a Real Party of America to represent the Middle Class. It is an Indictment of both the Democratic and the Republican Parties for the devisive political chaos they created in America today. Both parties are controlled by the “Power Elite” - the rich and famous and are unresponsive to the needs of the Middle Class. We are in effect, living in an aligarchy, not a democracy. In order to help you understand how we reached this dilemma in 2020, The author takes you through the history of the American Revolution, the formation of U.S. Government, the passage of the bill of rights, the history of the American Political Parties and how we got away from our traditional founding values. He also makes simple Common Sense ways that we can regain our Freedom and put the rich and powerful hijackers of our government out of Washington, D.C.
Book Synopsis Common Sense Conservatism by : Nick Grindley
Download or read book Common Sense Conservatism written by Nick Grindley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Conservatives Are Always Right by : Phil Roach
Download or read book Why Conservatives Are Always Right written by Phil Roach and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last one hundred years, the mainstream media has been allowed to define our politicians: who's conservative, who's liberal, who's radical right wing. In their world, of course, there's no such category as radical left wing. Until now, there's been no defined base line. All these descriptions have been relative, as well as inaccurate. The purpose of this book is to define in concrete examples exactly what conservatism means. Once we understand what conservatism is, then we can judge for ourselves just how each politician fits into the spectrum. It will give each reader the tools to decide for himself just how his own representatives "represent" his own values, and allow him to cast his vote accordingly. Why Conservatives Are Always Right examines this nation's founding principles, and explains how those principles allowed this new nation to become the envy of the world. It also explains how straying from those common sense principles has led to the turmoil, conflict and economic disasters that have become part of our everyday lives. This book should become a "Bible" for all conservatives. Phil Roach spent his working life in the printing business: starting, growing and selling three such businesses. He thus became an admirer of Benjamin Franklin, and took great interest in the founding principles of this country. In this vein, he has had two hundred Letters to the Editor published, explaining conservatism. Upon retirement in 2008, Roach finally had time to write a book putting together the positions he has developed over a lifetime. Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/WhyConservativesAreAlwaysRight.html
Book Synopsis A Return to Common Sense by : Thomas Mullen
Download or read book A Return to Common Sense written by Thomas Mullen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America finds itself in a time of crisis. For anyone remotely in touch with the state of our republic, there is a growing sense of dread that whatever is wrong is getting much worse much faster. Voters clamor for "change," and politicians promise to deliver, but does anyone really know what changes are necessary, or even what changes they want? Is America still the land of opportunity? Is it still the land of the free? Do we still know what freedom is? This book attempts to answer those questions. To do so, it goes back to the beginning to rediscover the meaning behind our most sacred words, and the truth about our natural rights. The answers that this book provides will surprise even the most informed reader, and will reveal the long-forgotten secret behind America's former prosperity and greatness.
Download or read book Common Sense written by David P. McMullan and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most influential authors and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born in England but went on to play an important role in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1774, he emigrated to America where, for a time, he helped to edit the Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
