{"product_id":"the-closing-of-the-liberal-mind-how-groupthink-and-intolerance-define-the-left","title":"The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left","description":"\u003cp\u003eA former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation  Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its oppositeilliberalismabandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights  liberties  and the rule of law upon which the country was founded  and becoming instead an intolerant  rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent and stifles free speech. Tracing the new illiberalism historically to the radical Enlightenment  a movement that rejected the classic liberal ideas of the moderate Enlightenment that were prominent in the American Founding  Holmes argues that todays 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. Where once freedom of speech and expression were sacrosanct  today liberalism employs speech codes  trigger warnings  boycotts  and shaming rituals to stifle freedom of thought  expression  and action. It is no longer appropriate to call it liberalism at all  but illiberalisma set of ideas in politics  government  and popular culture that increasingly reflects authoritarian and even anti-democratic values  and which is devising new strategies of exclusiveness to eliminate certain ideas and people from the political process. Although illiberalism has always been a temptation for American liberals  lurking in the radical fringes of the Left  it is today the dominant ideology of progressive liberal circles. This makes it a new danger not only to the once venerable tradition of liberalism  but to the American nation itself  which needs a viable liberal tradition that pursues social and economic equality while respecting individual liberties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964235739189,"sku":"ByrdShop_1594038511","price":25.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781594038518.jpg?v=1770453479","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-closing-of-the-liberal-mind-how-groupthink-and-intolerance-define-the-left","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}