The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1996-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0393348415

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"[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review) In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's election, but they would probably better employ their time reading the late Christopher Lasch's book." And in the National Review, Robert Bork says The Revolt of the Elites "ranges provocatively [and] insightfully." Controversy has raged around Lasch's targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is riveting social commentary.

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1991-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0393307956

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Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thinkers.

Democracy Against Domination

Democracy Against Domination
Author: K. Sabeel Rahman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019046853X

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In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values that economic policy ought to prioritize? What institutions do we trust to govern complex economic dynamics? Much of popular and academic debate revolves around two competing approaches to these fundamental questions: laissez-faire defenses of self-correcting and welfare-enhancing markets on the one hand, and managerialist turns to the role of insulated, expert regulation in mitigating risks and promoting growth on the other. In Democracy Against Domination, K. Sabeel Rahman offers an alternative vision for how we should govern the modern economy in a democratic society. Drawing on a rich tradition of economic reform rooted in the thought and reform politics of early twentieth century progressives like John Dewey and Louis Brandeis, Rahman argues that the fundamental moral challenge of economic governance today is two-fold: first, to counteract the threats of economic domination whether in the form of corporate power or inequitable markets; and second, to do so by expanding the capacity of citizens themselves to exercise real political power in economic policymaking. This normative framework in turn suggests a very different way of understanding and addressing major economic governance issues of the post-crisis era, from the challenge of too-big-to-fail financial firms, to the dangers of regulatory capture and regulatory reform.

Haven in a Heartless World

Haven in a Heartless World
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780393313031

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Previously published: New York : Basic Books, 1977. Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Agony of the American Left

The Agony of the American Left
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307830500

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Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of "the collapse of mass-based radical movements," Lasch examines the decline of populism, the disintegration of the American socialist party, and the weaknesses of black nationalism. Also included is a history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and a discussion of the '60's revival of ideological controversy.

The Rise of Duterte

The Rise of Duterte
Author: Richard Javad Heydarian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811059187

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This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region. As China's power in the Pacific grows rapidly, nations that have traditionally been US allies, such as the Phillipines, are experiencing political convulsions; Duterte's open willingness to realign towards China (at the expense of America) in exchange for infrastructure investment is one of the clearest indicators of what China's rise might look like for nations around the world. Timely, precise, accessible and fast-paced, this book will be of value to scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and China watchers.

Summary of Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

Summary of Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2022-04-26T22:59:00Z
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1669393151

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The threat to social order today comes from those at the top of the social hierarchy, not the masses. The elites who control the international flow of money and information, and who manage the instruments of cultural production, have lost faith in the values of the West. #2 Upper-class liberals have a difficult time understanding why their hygiene-obsessed lifestyle doesn’t appeal to everyone. They have tried to sanitize American society, but they fail to understand why people don’t want to be sanitized. #3 The new elites, the professional classes, view the masses with both contempt and apprehension. They are both arrogant and insecure, and they regard the masses with mingled scorn and apprehension. #4 The global disparity between wealth and poverty is clear evidence of the historic reversal. The crisis of the middle class, and not simply the growing chasm between wealth and poverty, needs to be emphasized in a sober analysis of our prospects.

World of Nations

World of Nations
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307830586

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The world of nations is the world men have made, in contrast to the world of nature. Seeking to understand the civil society Americans have made, Christopher Lasch, author of The Agony of the American Left, reexamines the liberal and radical traditions in the United States and the limitations of both, along the way challenging a number of accepted interpretations of American history.

New Radicalism in America

New Radicalism in America
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307830519

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Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1991-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0393348423

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"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book Review Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger production forces. Opposing this materialist view is the idea that condemns a boundless appetite for more and better goods and distrusts "improvements" that only feed desire. Tracing the opposition to the idea of progress from Rousseau through Montesquieu to Carlyle, Max Weber and G.D.H. Cole, Lasch finds much that is desirable in a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that features egalitarianism, workmanship and loyalty, and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others.