Who rules? : sovereignty, nationalism, and the fate of freedom in the 21st century / edited by Roger Kimball.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kimball, Roger, 1953- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty--Philosophy.

Sovereignty.

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Brazil. At the center of the populist challenge, this volume proposes, are two questions. The first revolves around the question of sovereignty: who governs a country? This question is at the center of all contemporary populist initiatives and has been posed with increasing urgency as the bureaucratic burden of what has come to be called the administrative state has intruded more and more forcefully upon the political and social life of Western democracies. The second key question, one related to the issue of sovereignty, concerns what Lincoln called "public sentiment": the widespread, almost taken-for-granted yet nonetheless palpable affirmation by a people of their national identity. The erosion of national sovereignty to which populism is a response has been accompanied by an erosion of that shared national consensus. Increasingly, the traditional pillars of this consensus--the binding forces of family, religion, civic duty, and patriotic filiation--have faltered before the blandishments of transnational progressivism. The debate sparked by these problems has turned on a number of high-profile issues which this volume seeks to address, including immigration, free trade, foreign policy, religious freedom, and the question of citizenship.

Contents:

Introduction / Roger Kimball

The enemy is an idea / Michael Anton

Liberty, collective and individual / Angelo M. Codevilla

Sovereignty and its enemies / John Fonte

Pre-and post-citizens / Victor Davis Hanson

The left v. the nation / John O'Sullivan

The idea of an American nation / James Piereson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Who rules?

ISBN:

9781641771290

1641771291

Publisher Number:

40030218673

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