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  • The Case for Parental Choice

    God, Family, and Educational Liberty

    by John E. Coons ...
    Series series Catholic Schools and the Common Good
    This work makes a richly humanitarian case for parental school choice, seeking to advance social justice and respect the dignity of parents—especially those on the margins.For decades, arguments in favor of school choice have largely been advanced on the basis of utility or outcome rather than social justice and human dignity. The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • School Choice and Human Good

    Why All Parents Must Be Empowered to Choose

    by John E. Coons ...
    John Coons is a progressive Berkeley law professor emeritus who in 1978 published a seminal book on the need for private school choice in the United States for children of lesser means. His motivation was and is straightforward. Families of greater means have always chosen their children’s schools, whether by moving to preferred neighborhoods or paying private tuitions. Coons says we can’t with ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's ... Read more

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  • Against Democracy

    by Jason Brennan, Jason Brennan ...
    A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one ... Read more

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  • Why Liberalism Failed

    by Patrick J. Deneen ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cost of Rights

    Why Liberty Depends on Taxes

    by Stephen Holmes, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    To "fight for your rights," or anyone else's, is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets.The simple insight that all legally enforceable rights cost money reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it—and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated. Drawing from these practical, commonsense notions, The Cost of Rights ... Read more

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  • The Essential Civil Society Reader

    The Classic Essays

    by Don E. Eberly, Daniel Bell, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, John Dilulio, Allan Ehrenhalt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Amitai Etzioni, Francis Fukuyama, William Galston0, Mary Ann Glendon1, Vaclav Havel2, Gertrude Himmelfarb3, John McKnight4, Richard John Neuhaus5, Robert Nisbet6, Michael Sandel7, William A. Schambra8, James Q. Wilson9, Alan Wolfe0 ...
    There is a growing anxiety about the basic health of society. Everywhere we see the fraying of the social fabric, the decline of families, the absence of consensus on unifying moral principles, and the disappearance of community and voluntary associations. Around the world, politicians and intellectuals of all political persuasions seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • You're More Powerful Than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    **A handbook for how political power really works, and what it takes to make change happen“[Liu] addresses a central question of this age: what, exactly, citizens who are unhappy with national politics can do, other than write a check or await the next chance to vote.” —The Atlantic**In this age of epic political turbulence, citizens everywhere are organizing to claim their power. Do you ... 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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  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... 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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  • No More Work

    Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea

    by James Livingston ...
    For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance—in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat, or else you must be stealing from someone. According to such pieties, if you truly worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In ... Read more

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