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The Fractured Republic : Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, Yuval Levin
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- Summary
- Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. No wonder, then, that Americans -- and the politicians who represent them -- are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time. The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large public programs promised to solve pressing social problems, and the movements for racial integration and sexual equality were advancing. The Right looks back to the Reagan Era, when deregulation and lower taxes spurred the economy, cultural traditionalism seemed resurgent, and America was confident and optimistic. Each side thinks returning to its golden age could solve America's problems. In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin argues that this politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century -- as the large, consolidated institutions that once dominated our economy, politics, and culture have fragmented and become smaller, more diverse, and personalized. Individualism, dynamism, and liberalization have come at the cost of dwindling solidarity, cohesion, and social order. This has left us with more choices in every realm of life but less security, stability, and national unity. Both our strengths and our weaknesses are therefore consequences of these changes. And the dysfunctions of our fragmented national life will need to be answered by the strengths of our decentralized, diverse, dynamic nation. Levin argues that this calls for a modernizing politics that avoids both radical individualism and a centralizing statism and instead revives the middle layers of society -- families and communities, schools and churches, charities and associations, local governments and markets
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 262 pages
- Contents
-
- Blinded by nostalgia
- The age of conformity
- The age of frenzy
- The age of anxiety
- The unbundled market
- Subculture wars
- One nation, after all
- Isbn
- 9780465061969
- Label
- The Fractured Republic : Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
- Title
- The Fractured Republic
- Title remainder
- Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
- Statement of responsibility
- Yuval Levin
- Subject
-
- Civil society -- United States
- Civilization
- Economic history
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Individualismus
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Commentary & Opinion
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | Political Parties
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- 2000-2099
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Wirtschaftliche Lage
- Zivilgesellschaft
- Soziale Situation
- Civil society
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. No wonder, then, that Americans -- and the politicians who represent them -- are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time. The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large public programs promised to solve pressing social problems, and the movements for racial integration and sexual equality were advancing. The Right looks back to the Reagan Era, when deregulation and lower taxes spurred the economy, cultural traditionalism seemed resurgent, and America was confident and optimistic. Each side thinks returning to its golden age could solve America's problems. In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin argues that this politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century -- as the large, consolidated institutions that once dominated our economy, politics, and culture have fragmented and become smaller, more diverse, and personalized. Individualism, dynamism, and liberalization have come at the cost of dwindling solidarity, cohesion, and social order. This has left us with more choices in every realm of life but less security, stability, and national unity. Both our strengths and our weaknesses are therefore consequences of these changes. And the dysfunctions of our fragmented national life will need to be answered by the strengths of our decentralized, diverse, dynamic nation. Levin argues that this calls for a modernizing politics that avoids both radical individualism and a centralizing statism and instead revives the middle layers of society -- families and communities, schools and churches, charities and associations, local governments and markets
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Levin, Yuval
- Dewey number
- 306.20973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E893
- LC item number
- .L48 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- Civil society
- United States
- United States
- United States
- United States
- HISTORY
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Civil society
- Civilization
- Economic history
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- United States
- Individualismus
- Soziale Situation
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Wirtschaftliche Lage
- Zivilgesellschaft
- Label
- The Fractured Republic : Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, Yuval Levin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Blinded by nostalgia -- The age of conformity -- The age of frenzy -- The age of anxiety -- The unbundled market -- Subculture wars -- One nation, after all
- Control code
- ocn945121355
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465061969
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016002304
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780465061969
- (OCoLC)945121355
- Label
- The Fractured Republic : Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, Yuval Levin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Blinded by nostalgia -- The age of conformity -- The age of frenzy -- The age of anxiety -- The unbundled market -- Subculture wars -- One nation, after all
- Control code
- ocn945121355
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465061969
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016002304
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780465061969
- (OCoLC)945121355
Subject
- Civil society -- United States
- Civilization
- Economic history
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Individualismus
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Commentary & Opinion
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process | Political Parties
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- 2000-2099
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Wirtschaftliche Lage
- Zivilgesellschaft
- Soziale Situation
- Civil society
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