The politics of bad faith

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In this intellectual companion piece to David Horowitz's acclaimed autobiography, Radical Son, the most famous defector from the radical Left argues that, even in this supposedly post-ideological, post-Cold War era, the historic themes of that conflict still drive our politics and animate our cultural debates.
The Politics of Bad Faith brings into the open the refusal of the political Left—including those who describe themselves as liberals—to learn from the past, specifically from the checkered history of progressive movements for social justice and equal outcomes. This refusal shapes agendas that Horowitz describes as part of a new "cold war" against America—a culture war that pits "progressives" and "multi-culturalists" against America's founding principles and ideas.
With keen political insight and a masterful grasp of history, Horowitz traces the radical project from its origins in nineteenth-century socialism to the disastrous excesses of such current "progressive" causes... Tovább

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In this intellectual companion piece to David Horowitz's acclaimed autobiography, Radical Son, the most famous defector from the radical Left argues that, even in this supposedly post-ideological, post-Cold War era, the historic themes of that conflict still drive our politics and animate our cultural debates.
The Politics of Bad Faith brings into the open the refusal of the political Left—including those who describe themselves as liberals—to learn from the past, specifically from the checkered history of progressive movements for social justice and equal outcomes. This refusal shapes agendas that Horowitz describes as part of a new "cold war" against America—a culture war that pits "progressives" and "multi-culturalists" against America's founding principles and ideas.
With keen political insight and a masterful grasp of history, Horowitz traces the radical project from its origins in nineteenth-century socialism to the disastrous excesses of such current "progressive" causes as political correctness, radical feminism, racial preferences, and what he describes as the nihilistic campaign to "deconstruct" the American idea itself.
Horowitz identifies the threat to American democracy posed by the virulent anti-American Left. He demonstrates how it has effectively altered university curricula to serve its agenda. He calls it to account for never having fully confronted the catastrophe of Marxism's failure, and charts the old religious heresy of progressivism, its roots, and its inevitable failure, from Eve to Winnie Mandela. Better than any other cultural observer writing today, Horowitz elucidates the war between the Left and nature and distinguishes between the French and American revolutionary traditions and the ideas that threaten to subvert the constitutional framework—a structure that some still refuse to recognize as under attack. Chapter 5,"A Radical Holocaust," (continued on back flap)
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describes a fresh catastrophe induced by this political bad faith: the mismanagement of the AIDS epidemic, resulting in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.
Horowitz has provided a cohesive and searing document for all who refuse to hide their heads in the sand while American principles, institutions, and beliefs are corrupted by the politics of bad faith, masquerading in the guise of social justice.
DAVID HOROWITZ is the bestselling coauthor of The Rockefellers and The Kennedys, President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and Editor of the journal Heterodoxy. He lives in Los Angeles. Vissza