The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left

Synopsis

Holmes Surveys The State Of Liberalism In America Today And Finds That It Is Becoming Its Opposite-- Illiberalism-- Becoming An Intolerant, Rigidly Dogmatic Ideology That Abhors Dissent And Stifles Free Speech. He Argues That Today’s Liberalism Has Forsaken Its American Roots, Incorporating Instead The Authoritarian, Anti-clerical, And Anti-capitalist Prejudices Of The Radical And Largely European Left. The Result Is A Closing Of The American Liberal Mind. Introduction -- The Decline Of American Liberalism -- The Rise Of The Postmodern Left -- Why The Postmodern Left Is Not Liberalism -- The Illiberal Style Of Liberal Politics Today -- Promethean Government Unbound -- Bullies, Shaming Rituals, And The Culture Of Intolerance -- The Death Of The Liberal Intellectual -- The Troubled Legacy Of The Radical Enlightenment -- The Closing Of The Liberal Mind -- Conclusion: The Way Forward. Kim R. Holmes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.