Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born-Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good

ISBN-13: 9781594515132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 245 str.

Charles Derber; Yale R. Magrass

Opis

Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality," doing evil in the name of good (e.g., Bush preemptively invading Iraq to spread liberty). The authors explore three ancient codes of immoral morality frighteningly resurrected in America today -those of empire, the politically correct, and the born again. Although the right today has recrafted historic arguments that empires bring peace, and fundamentalists battle moral decay, the authors show the Democratic Party and the left have their own IM, with Democrats supporting empire and the left its own political correctness. America's political divide today is a backlash to the progressive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s-secular, antiwar, and feminist-that created a radical break from traditional values and set the stage for current morality wars. In the spirit of de Tocqueville, this powerful book offers a rich and vivid portrait of America's political landscape, exploring ideas that can help move the nation to a new morality and politics.

Spis treści

Introduction: When Right Is Wrong; Part I Empire and the Morality of Winning; Chapter 1 How to Be Chosen; Chapter 2 America’s Moral Big Stick; Chapter 3 The Mass Psychology of Empire; Part II Born-Again Nations; Chapter 4 Hitler’s Born-Again Story; Chapter 5 Moral Calamity in Dixie; Chapter 6 God Bless America; Part III Political Correctness as an American Tragedy; Chapter 7 The Invisible Political Correctness; Chapter 8 Left Political Correctness; Part IV Morality Wars in the Obama Era; Chapter 9 When Losers Are Winners; Chapter 10 My Brother’s Keeper, My sister’s Keeper;

O autorze

Charles Derber, Yale R. Magrass