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  • Why the Rest Hates the West

    Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

    by Meic Pearse ...
    "Why do they hate us so much?"Many in the U.S. are baffled at the hatred and anti-Western sentiment they see on the international news. Why are people around the world so resentful of Western cultural values and ideals? Historian Meic Pearse unpacks the deep divides between the West and the rest of the world. He shows how many of the underlying assumptions of Western civilization directly oppose ... Read more

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  • How to be a conservative

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? ... Read more

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  • Awake, Not Woke

    A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

    by Noelle Mering ...
    The long-simmering crisis that grips our culture has exploded in recent years, leaving us divided and intransigent. Discourse seems futile when we are no longer a people with shared principles or even a shared understanding of reality. What seems obvious to one person is patently absurd to the next.This collapse of meaning is not accidental. It has been plotted and documented for decades, and now ... Read more

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  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... Read more

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  • Morality

    Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    A distinguished religious leader's “brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.With liberal democracy embattled, our public discourse growing increasingly toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In* Morality*, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

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  • The Servile Mind

    How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is playing out in our century: as the ... Read more

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  • Faith in the Public Square

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation. His views are consistent and orthodox and yet he has been consistently misunderstood - especially in relation to his views on contemporary society, public morality and the common good.In this, the final published work of his Archepiscopate, Dr Williams has assembled a series of chapters on matters of immediate public ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • To Change the World

    The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

    by James Davison Hunter ...
    The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive--and ... Read more

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  • The Uses of Pessimism

    And the Danger of False Hope

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his ... Read more

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  • The Great Divide

    Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in the concept of liberal democracy itself, and the resulting divide is now so wide that those ... Read more

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  • The Conservative Soul

    How We Lost It; How to Get It Back

    by Andrew Sullivan ...
    Is the GOP now a religious party? "As engaging as it is provocative. . . . should be read closely by liberals as well as conservatives." —Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of BooksOne of the nation's leading political commentators makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from the excesses of the Republican far right, which has tried to make the GOP the first fundamentally religious party ... Read more

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