Ed Driscoll;
I’ve really been enjoying Fred Siegel’s new book, The Revolt Against the Masses, which is almost a sort of sequel to Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. It certainly compliments Jonah’s book as an excellent parallel history of the rise of Progressivism, with an emphasis on how that ideology allows its believers to acquire an instant superiority complex on the cheap. The chapters on the left during pre-World War II America are particularly fascinating.
Go here for the audio and transcript.
Just ordered the book thru Amazon.
Happily, people are examining these underlying cultural forces; sadly there’s no stopping them.
This is exactly what Friedrich Hayek was warning about during the 1930s and 40s. As well, the books “Paris 1919” and “A Shattered Peace”, also discuss Wilson’s liberalism, although this is by no means central to the main themes.
Glasnost, I agree, and I fear for my family, but I guess history will take its course, and ultimately the hope is that the west will discover what the eastern Europeans discovered.
The progressive monkey wears no clothes.
Listened to it last night – Fascinating.
My grandfather said that President Wilson leaned forward and told gullible Americans,
‘How he could win friends and influence people in Europe.’
Then he opened up a large glass jar of draft death notices,
and started pulling out numbers for American boys to get slaughtered in the trenches of World War 1.
Now we have another great progressive leader telling us,
‘How to win friends and influence people,’
giving us hopes and changies,
forcing us to share the same health care, food stamps,
taking our jobs to give those that would cross our open borders.
Just can’t wait till he opens up the Draft Jar of Freedom..