Peace, war and party politics examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party's significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain's relations with Europe.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America.
Conquest, Famine, War, Death the four horsemen are coming, in the form of the national debt, widespread dependence on government, turmoil in the Middle East, and the expansion of the bureaucratic state.
Stephen Harper is the first prime minister to represent the new Conservative Party, and the first to declare that his goals include nothing less than changing Canada by entrenching conservative values and replacing the Liberals as the country's natural governing party.
FOX News Radio reporter Todd Starnes is a self-professed ';gun toting, chicken eating son of a Baptist' whose Dispatches from Bitter America is ';a collection of stories from my travels across this country (and) conversations I've had with regular folks who have deep concerns about the direction we are going as a nation.
How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s?
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, was perceived as leading progressive figure until he published his reaction to the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France, which he wrote as the Revolution unfolded.
"e;With misinformation and disinformation everywhere, a book that provides facts without an agenda is a welcome resource for public, academic, and consumer health collections.
Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years.
Contemporary American conservatism - a melange of ideas, people, and organizations - is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unable to agree about its essential meaning.
A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empireReordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire.
Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and network thinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservative thought.
The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events.
This first volume in a new series comprises nine contributions originally presented at a workshop supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin in August, 1994.
Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932.
The first comprehensive, contextual account of Edmund Burke''s techniques of political discourse, tracing the ideas behind his ''rhetoric of character''.
Joachim Bahlcke präsentiert kenntnisreich die allmähliche Umformung spätmittelalterlicher Fürstenherrschaft zum frühneuzeitlichen Territorialstaat in der Zeit zwischen 1500 und 1800, die Historiker heute kurz als Epoche der Staatsbildung bezeichnen.
Many Christians feel that they are being opposed at every turn by what seems to be a well-orchestrated political and cultural campaign to de-Christianize every aspect of Western culture.
Les résultats de la plupart des élections provinciales survenues depuis 2018 ont été interprétés comme le signal d’un retour de la droite au gouvernement.
Conservatism is often labelled as a disposition , tradition , or even a set of knee-jerk reactions, rather than an ideology, and its suspicion of grand theorising has lent itself to this characterization.
A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism.
Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the United States has frequently chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes in parts of the world.
After World War I, diplomats and leaders at the Paris Peace Talks redrew the map of Europe, carving up ancient empires and transforming Europe's eastern half into new nation-states.
Obamacare puts government in charge of a sixth of the American economy; forces every American to acquire insurance coverage or pay a hefty fine; inserts federal bureaucrats into the most intimate decisions about your health issues and medical care; and makes rationing inevitable (though of course the law doesn't use the word ';ration').
