The New Threats to Freedom (Hardcover)

New Threats to Freedom

In the twentieth century, free people faced a number of mortal threats, ranging from despotism, fascism,
and communism to the looming menace of global terrorism. While the struggle against some of these overt dangers continues, some insidious new threats seem to have slipped past our intellectual defenses. These often unchallenged threats are quietly eroding our hard-won freedoms and, in some cases, are widely accepted as beneficial.

In New Threats to Freedom, editor and author Adam Bellow has assembled an all-star lineup of innovative thinkers to challenge these insidious new threats. Some leap into already raging debates on issues such as Sharia law in the West, the rise of transnationalism, and the regulatory state. Others turn their attention to less obvious threats, such as the dogma of fairness, the failed promises of the blogosphere, and the triumph of behavioral psychology.

These threats are very real and very urgent, yet this collection avoids projecting an air of doom and gloom. Rather, it provides a blueprint for intellectual resistance so that modern defenders of liberty may better understand their enemies, more effectively fight to preserve the meaning of freedom, and more surely carry its light to a new generation.

What are the new threats to freedom?

when has authority not claimed, when imposing trammels and curbs on liberty, that it does so for a wider good and a greater happiness?OCO OCoChristopher Hitchens

OC The regulatory state amounts to a regressive tax that penalizes small independent producers and protects
the status quo.OCO OCoMax Borders

OC Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.OCO OCoDaniel Hannan

OC The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered OCymore important, OCO like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.OCO OCoGreg Lukianoff

OC The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.OCO OCoRobert D. Kaplan

OC That old bugbear of postwar sociologyOCothe mob-selfOCois now a reality. In a participatory/popularity culture, the freedom to think and act for ourselves becomes harder and harder to achieve.OCO OCoLee Siegel

OC As traditional marriage declines, the ranks of single women are growing, and increasingly these women are substituting the security of a husband with the security of the state.OCO OCoJessica Gavora

OC Ending the freedom to fail is a mean-spirited attack on the freedom to succeed.OCO OCoMichael Goodwin

OC The only solution to the new threats to American press freedom lies in organized resistance.OCO OCoKatherine Mangu-Ward

OC The new behaviorism isnOCOt interested in protecting peopleOCOs freedom to choose; on the contrary, its core principle is the idea that only by allowing an expert elite to limit choice can individuals learn to break their bad habits.OCO OCoChristine Rosen

OC ThereOCOs a world of Travis Bickles out there, and theyOCOre not driving cabs. TheyOCOre reading blogs.OCO OCoRon Rosenbaum

OC The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.OCO OCoDavid Mamet

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