Konservatisme og højreorienterede demokratiske ideologier

Denne bog er en lynskarp diagnose af vores samtids borgerlige krise og dens rødder helt tilbage til Hartlings, Schlüters og Foghs tid. Men den er også en lettilgængelig indføring i den borgerlige tankegang – som en opmuntrende vitaminpille til alle i Danmark, der føler sig hjemløse i tidens konsensustyranni.Den gode nyhed er, at borgerligheden lever – og er den eneste ideologi, der virker. Velfærdssocialismen, derimod, er skrøbelig, fordi den bygger på et falsk fundament. Tiden er moden til at levere et borgerligt alternativ, der giver ansvaret tilbage til borgerne og deres familier.Martin Ågerup (f. 1966) er medstifter af og adm. direktør for IT-virksomheden Popoulos Analytics. Han var fra 2004 til september 2023 direktør for den borgerlige tænketank CEPOS og har ifølge Berlingske “formet den borgerlige idédebat mere end næsten nogen anden de sidste to årtier”. Han er formand for Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning og medlem af bestyrelsen i Den Berlingske Fond og i Johan Schrøders Fond. Han er Bachelor of Science i økonomi og økonomisk historie fra University of Bristol samt MA i økonomi fra University of Exeter.

Anders Krab-Johansen giver sit bud på, hvordan det borgerlige Danmark igen kan blive et politisk alternativ efter den nedsmeltning, som blå blok har været igennem.Bogens temaer er præsenteret med udgangspunkt i en spiral. Inderst i spiralen placerer Krab-Johansen det enkelte menneske med dets rettigheder og pligter. Dernæst kommer familien og  dannelsen – skolen, kulturen, medier, kirken og de frie institutioner, der udgør sammenhængskraften, men hviler på statstilskud og markedets gunst. Herefter markedet og erhvervslivet, som kæmper for at overleve. Siden følger Danmark, nationen – vores rødder, sprog, immigrationen, hovedstad-provins-debatten og grundloven. Og yderst er verden omkring os – det internationale samarbejde.Bogen er Anders Krab-Johansens personlige bidrag til debatten om, hvad der skal til for, at det borgerlige Danmark kan vende skuden og forandre samfundet i en liberal-konservativ retning.

"Traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century"--

This volume, Early English Tracts on Commerce, was edited by John Ramsay McCulloch and originally published in 1856. It contains essays on political economy written by: Thomas Mun, Lewes Roberts, Samuel Fortrey, William Petty, Dudley North, and Henry Martyn.In her entry on McCulloch in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Phyllis Deane wrote: "It is now apparent that for most of the half-centurypreceding his death [in 1864] this hard-working, largely self-educated Scot did more than any other economist of this day to introduce the new science of political economy to an interested public." The three edited McCulloch volumes now reprinted by CL Press show the enduring value of McCulloch's service to those interested in the history of economic thought and the historical arc of liberalism.

After fourteen years of Conservative government, we rightly ask what changed for the better or worse during this prolonged period of power? The country experienced significant challenges including austerity, Brexit and Covid: did they militate against the government's making more lasting impact? Bringing together some of the leading authorities in the field, this book examines the impact of Conservative rule on a wide range of economic, social, foreign and governmental areas. Anthony Seldon, Tom Egerton and their team uncover the ultimate 'Conservative effect' on the United Kingdom. With powerful insights and fresh perspectives, this is an intriguing study for anyone seeking to understand the full scope of the Conservative government's influence on our nation. Drawing the immediate lessons from the last fourteen years will be pivotal if the country is to rejuvenate and flourish in the future.

Sociologist and director of the National Marriage Project Dr. Bradford Wilcox reveals the social transformations and political posturing threatening the tradition American family and offers a way forward to protect and nurture it.America is in crisis. Trust is falling, crime and economic inequality are soaring, and loneliness and aimlessness are rising. The problems are visible to us all, but the solution is right before our eyes: Get married. According to new research by University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox, Americans who get married and have children today enjoy the kind of social solidarity and financial stability that result in more meaningful, fulfilling, and prosperous lives than most of their fellow citizens. And their kids and communities are much more likely to flourish.In this hard-hitting book, Wilcox refutes the anti-family messages and policies coming out of Hollywood, Washington, the media, academia, and corporate America. He shows that the benefits of the American Dream are still there for the taking for every American willing to take the plunge, settle down, and say yes to a family-centered way of life. Doing so will not only save them and their children from downward mobility, instability, and aimlessness; it will save America from ruin ?one marriage at a time.

To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Hateful pundits. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America there is an ?outrage industrial complex? that prospers by setting American against American, creating a ?culture of contempt??the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you dislike it. But, hey, either you play along or you'll be left behind, right?Wrong. In Love Your Enemies, the New York Times bestselling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that abuse and outrage are not the right formula for lasting success. Brooks blends cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of America's top policy think tanks in a work that offers a better way to lead based on bridging divides and mending relationships.Brooks's prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, we shouldn't try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn't be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act.Love Your Enemies offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hungry for a new era of American progress. Most of all, it is a road map to find the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.

In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it.Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment.Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall.

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Laje demuestra en qué medida la cultura se ha vuelto el principal botín del poder, cómo se han desarrollado las batallas culturales desde los tiempos modernos hasta nuestros tiempos posmodernos y cómo enfrentarlas. Se analiza cómo se entendió este fenómeno la Nueva Izquierda, frente a una derecha que despreció el poder de la cultura. Por lo tanto, es una invitación para construir una nueva derecha.

Keeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which "the living are governed by the dead." Dennis Hale and Marc Landy take seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting their argument, they present an intellectual history of the key critics, including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Dahl, Sanford Levinson, and the authors of The 1619 Project. Why, they ask, if the constitutional order is so well-designed, do so many American citizens have a negative view of the American political order? To address that question, they examine the most crucial episodes in American political development from the Founding to the present.Hale and Landy frame their defense of the Constitution by understanding America in terms of modernity, where small republics are no longer possible and there is a need to protect the citizens of a massive modern state while still preserving liberty. The Constitution makes large, popular government possible by placing effective limits on the exercise of power. The Constitution forces the people to be governed by the dead, both to pay the debt we owe to those who came before us and to preserve society for generations yet unborn.The central argument of Keeping the Republic is that the Constitution provides for a free government because it places effective limits on the exercise of power--an essential ingredient of any good government, even one that aims to be a popular government. That the people should rule is a given among republicans; that the people can do anything they want is a proposition that no one could accept with their eyes wide open. Thus, the limits that the Constitution place on American political life are not a problem, but a solution to a problem.Hale and Landy offer both a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order of the nation's Framers.

Citizens of Heaven: How Evangelicals Should Respond to Trumpism shows how the white evangelical Church has lost its moral and prophetic stance by following Donald Trump and his right-wing agenda. It explores the Church's racist history and outlines a scriptural path toward antiracism. Citizens of Heaven then explains how Christians can become politically active and remain consistent with the teachings of Christ. Finally, Christians are encouraged to behave like Citizens of Heaven - displaying love, grace and forgiveness as acting as agents of reconciliation right here on earth.

One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age

A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right-and how they've partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution-online and off-that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses. In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative tour de force, Kyle Spencer chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold-revealing their highly successful efforts to harness social media in alarming ways and capitalize on the democratization of celebrity culture. These power-hungry new faces may look and sound like antiestablishment renegades, but they are actually part of a tightly organized and heavily funded ultraconservative initiative to transform American youth culture and popularize fringe ideas. There is Charlie Kirk, the swashbuckling Trump insider and founder of the right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA, who dreams of taking back the country's soul from weak-kneed liberals and becoming a national powerbroker in his own right. There is the acid-tongued Candace Owens, a Black ultraconservative talk-show host and Fox News regular who is seeking to bring Black America to the GOP and her own celebritydom into the national forefront. And then there is the young, rough-and-tumble libertarian Cliff Maloney, who built the Koch-affiliated organization Young Americans for Liberty into a political force to be reckoned with, while solidifying his own power and pull inside conservative circles. Chock-full of original reporting and unprecedented access, Raising Them Right is a striking prism through which to view the extraordinary shifts that have taken place in the American political sphere over the last decade. It establishes Kyle Spencer as the premier authority on a new generation of young conservative communicators who are merging politics and pop culture, social media and social lives, to bring cruel economic philosophies, skeletal government, and dangerous antidemocratic ideals into the mainstream. Theirs is a crusade that is just beginning.

The Tories’ ancient instinct for survival has vanished, along with any concern for the public good, and Bloody Panico is the prevailing mood

The political left has for too long treated human evolutionary theory with suspicion or, more often, open hostility. Yet dismissing Darwinism as a pseudo-scientific prop for racism, sexism, nationalism and other right-wing prejudice is a tragic own goal, leaving an immensely important topic to bigots and nut jobs, while isolating the left from exciting modern developments within this field.A (R)Evolutionary Left challenges this lazy ignorance, ideological blindness and fervent resistance to Darwinian thinking with open and honest discussion of some of the left's most strongly defended taboos-from eugenics to inherited intelligence to likely evolved differences between the sexes and between human "races".Human beings are the product of the long and complex process of biological evolution that has left its mark on our bodies and on our minds. If we dismiss this reality out of hand-as the left is wont to do-we forgo a better understanding of ourselves. We also miss identifying obstacles to achieving the left's cherished goal of a more just and liveable future society.

Our God-given Fundamental Rights accomplishes the following objectives. 1. It identifies the most necessary and essential God-given fundamental rights for humanity. 2. It identifies and defines the criteria for God-given fundamental rights to garner constitutional protection. 3. It illustrates that science cannot disprove God. 4. It answers the typical atheist objections about the Bible and the existence of God. 5. It proves the United States is not a secular nation and history without God is wrong. 6. It identifies techniques used by the progressive revolution to mitigate constitutional principles and our God-given fundamental rights. 7. It examines dozens of examples to explain how the United States government infringes on the God-given fundamental rights of its citizens. 8. It illustrates that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were Divinely influenced. 9. It disputes the causation theories for both the Revolutionary War and Civil War provided in our history books in favor of a hypothesis they were fought for Our God-given fundamental rights. 10. It evaluates over one hundred biblical verses germane to fundamental rights. 11. Finally, it provides solutions to regain the Founding Fathers vision for America.

The beloved Fox News contributor and national bestselling author delves into the ideological war between today's Democrats and opinions they held just a few years ago. In the 1990s, Democrats supported balanced budgets, smaller government, border security, equal opportunity (not outcomes), reducing the deficit, and prioritizing blue-collar issues. However, according to Joe Concha, these are things that Democrats are against now. Today, Democrats want people to believe that they know what is morally right and that they have always supported their current views. However, Concha argues that nothing sums up the Democrats better than John Kerry's famous quote, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it." In his book, Progressively Worse, Concha delves deep into the political landscape, unearthing how the Democratic Party has changed. He covers every hot-button issue, from identity politics to socialism to the war in Ukraine, as he criticizes today's left and its allies in the media.

" With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan's character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines--finding plenty of compelling insights for our current national dysfunction."--Publisher marketing.