Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political JourneysMary Eberstadt Simon and Schuster, 13 Φεβ 2007 - 304 σελίδες Political vicissitudes aside, with or without a conservative administration, whether or not America is engaged in war, or regardless of who next holds the majority either in Congress or the Court, the United States as a whole (as the infamous red and blue map made unforgettably clear) has boldly, unabashedly moved Right. But the question remains: Why? How did a movement that appeared so sidelined and embattled only a generation ago emerge as such a strong, influential, and enduring united front? In Why I Turned Right, eminent and rising conservatives -- at odds themselves on a number of issues from religion, family, sex, to stem cell research, abortion, and war -- answer the question. And they answer it not through polemic, reactionary preaching, or rage, but in the most practical and sensible way possible: via the sharp, critical, and unfiltered voices and canny observations of uniquely positioned authors, editors, humorists, and political refugees inadvertently born of the sexual revolution and the PC movement, who ultimately landed on the conservative side of America's red-blue divide -- in some cases, much to their own surprise. A fascinating intellectual journey, this "family of opinions," as contributor Peter Berkowitz terms it, represents the extraordinarily varied paths that have led these authors from the championed liberalism of their youth to eventually fuel the world of conservative think tanks, magazines, blogs, and book publishing. Whether you are for the Right or against, guarded supporter or puzzled progressive, Why I Turned Right proves an entertaining, enlightening, and edifying read for anyone with an open mind -- both the red and the blue, and everyone in between. |
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... sense gave me a natural interest in it; second, because my past and present associations as editor or author at vari- ous journals and magazines (The Public Interest, The National Interest, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, First ...
... sense gave me a natural interest in it; second, because my past and present associations as editor or author at vari- ous journals and magazines (The Public Interest, The National Interest, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, First ...
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... sense may have yet to be measured in full . For in the outcry against what he and his policies stood for , the American Spectator and any number of polemical imitators on campuses were born — sharp , critical , and often shockingly ...
... sense may have yet to be measured in full . For in the outcry against what he and his policies stood for , the American Spectator and any number of polemical imitators on campuses were born — sharp , critical , and often shockingly ...
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... sense, that is. For one thing, and as psychia- trist Sally Satel's essay in particular makes clear, at least some baby boom/gen X writers turned right who might oth- erwise have stayed in the political middle—because in elite academia ...
... sense, that is. For one thing, and as psychia- trist Sally Satel's essay in particular makes clear, at least some baby boom/gen X writers turned right who might oth- erwise have stayed in the political middle—because in elite academia ...
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... sense of human limitation and the similar under- standing of religion . After all , the same " epistemological humility " cited by David Brooks as a pillar of his political views can be cast more widely than just the next appropria ...
... sense of human limitation and the similar under- standing of religion . After all , the same " epistemological humility " cited by David Brooks as a pillar of his political views can be cast more widely than just the next appropria ...
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... sense a deeper flight from responsibility in the boomers , " writes Richard Starr . " Their precious ' right to choose , ' for instance , more and more struck me as a right not to be weighed down by any obliga- tion to another human ...
... sense a deeper flight from responsibility in the boomers , " writes Richard Starr . " Their precious ' right to choose , ' for instance , more and more struck me as a right not to be weighed down by any obliga- tion to another human ...
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