Buku The Pity Party - Karya William Voegeli
s
Category > Buku > Nonfiksi Dewasa > Ilmu Sosial > Lain-Lain > The Pity Party
Book 5

The Pity Party

Reviews (0 / 5)

by William Voegeli

Want to Read Currently Read
Beri penilaian
About this edition
When liberals don't have reason, authority, or the American people on their side, they turn to the one thing they never run out of: Pity. For decades, conservatives have chafed at being called heartless and uncaring by liberals who maintain that our essential choice as a nation is between the politics of kindness and the politics of cruelty. In , political scientist William Voegeli turns the tables on this argument, making the case that compassion is neither the essence of personal virtue nor the ultimate purpose of government. Over the years, liberals have built a remarkable edifice of government programs that are justified by appeals to compassion: Head Start, immigration reform, gun control, affirmative action, and entitlements, to name only some. As Voegeli amply demonstrates, the liberals who promote these massive programs are weirdly indifferent as to whether they succeed. Instead, when the problems they are intended to solve fail to disappear, liberals double down, calling for yet more programs and ever greater expenditures in the name of compassion. Meanwhile, conservatives who challenge the effectiveness of these programs are slandered as heartless right-wingers. Yet rather than challenge this tendentious liberal argument, the many conservatives it intimidates feel it necessary to insist that they really do care. However, liberal compassion's good intentions consistently fail to translate into good results. Voegeli walks the reader through a plethora of programs that have become battlefields between conservatives fighting for more efficiency and liberals fighting for more budget-busting federal programs to address an ever-expanding catalog of social ills. Along the way, he explains the underpinnings of the liberal philosophy that reinforce this misapplied ideal and shows why today's self-described compassionate liberals are ultimately unfit to govern.
Details
  • Jumlah Halaman

    0

    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    29 Oct, 2015

    Penulis
    William Voegeli
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG88638

Similar Books

Book Photo 1 Book Photo 1 Book Photo 1 Book Photo 1 Book Photo 1 Book Photo 1