Eric v.d. Luft earned his B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy and religion at Bowdoin College in 1974 and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in 1985. From 1987 to 2006 he was Curator of Historical Collections at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has taught at Villanova University, Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, and the College of Saint Rose, and is listed in Who's Who in America. Luft is the author, editor, or translator of over 600 publications in philosophy, religion, history, history of medicine, and nineteenth-century studies, including Hegel, Hinrichs, and Schleiermacher on Feeling and Reason in Religion: The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate (1987); God, Evil, and Ethics: A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion (2004); A Socialist Manifesto (2007); Die at the Right Time: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties (2009); and Ruminations: Selected Philosophical, Historical, and Ideological Papers (2010).
Contents:
Introduction
1. What is America?
2. What is Conservatism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conservative" (1841)
3. From Revolution to Unity
4. From Reconstruction to Depression
Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth" (1889)
5. From Recovery to Freedom, Equality, and Dignity
6. Trickling Down into the War of All Against All
7. Institutionalizing the Inconsistent and the Irrational
8. Conflict of Interest as a Way of Life
9. Return to Feudalism
Cynthia McKinney, Letter to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (2001)
10. What Needs to be Done?
1. Overturn the Citizens United Decision
2. Outlaw Gerrymandering
3. Abolish the Electoral College
4. Outlaw Corporate or Organizational Contributions to Political Campaigns
5. Outlaw Political Contributions from Outside the Voting District
6. Mandate Full Disclosure for All Major Candidates
7. Remove the Cap on Social Security Contributions
8. Tax the Rich to Balance the Budget and Reduce the National Debt
9. Restore a Strictly Graduated Progressive Income Tax with Many Brackets
10. Revive and Restore the Fairness Doctrine
11. Fund Public Education Completely and Equitably
12. Revise and Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
13. Install a Single-Payer Federal Health Care Plan
14. Enact Sensible Firearms Control Laws
15. Restore a Reasonable Amount of Privacy
16. Reduce the Power of the Senate and House Majority Leaders
17. Make Election Day a National Midweek Holiday
18. Always Ask: Cui bono?
Appendix: On Trumpism
Título : How the Conservatives Ruined America: Second Edition with an Appendix on Trumpism
EAN : 9781621308058
Editorial : gegensatz
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