BAAE - ONLINE Book Discussion Conservatism by Jerry Muller

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A Braver Angels Abroad Europe book discussion on Conservatism by Jerry Muller

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Braver Angels Abroad - Europe (BAAE)We have created BAAE because we feel there is a need to offer workshops and other Braver Angels programming at a time that is more convenient to those Americans living abroad in Europe, with the goal to eventually set up meetings in person all over the continent.About Book Discussion :Note: This event is to be attended online.J﻿oin us for a lively 2 hour long discussion on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conservatism-Jerry-Z-Muller/dp/0691037116/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YGY4P99R6321&amp;keywords=convertism+by+jerry+muller&amp;qid=1673309480&amp;sprefix=converatism+by+jerry+muller%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Conservatism by Jerry Muller</a>At a time when the label “conservative” is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy. Bringing together important specimens of European and American conservative social and political analysis from the mid-eighteenth century through our own day, Conservatism demonstrates that while the particular institutions that conservatives have sought to conserve have varied, there are characteristic features of conservative argument that recur over time and across national bordersThe book proceeds chronologically through the following sections: Enlightenment Conservatism (David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Justus Möser), The Critique of Revolution (Burke, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, James Madison, and Rufus Choate), Authority (Matthew Arnold, James Fitzjames Stephen), Inequality (W. H. Mallock, Joseph A. Schumpeter), The Critique of Good Intentions (William Graham Sumner), War (T. E. Hulme), Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Schumpeter), The Limits of Rationalism (Winston Churchill, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Edward Banfield), The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation (Irving Kristol, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, Hermann Lübbe), and Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold Gehlen, Philip Rieff). The book contains an afterword on recurrent tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.D﻿EPOLARIZING WITHIN I﻿n order to depolarize from within, we must get to know the other side of our political divide. Join us following the reading list for BA Depolarizing Within workshop:READING LIST ON LIBERALISMMagazines:● The New Republic● Nation● AtlanticColumnists:● New York Times: Nicholas Kristof, Thomas Friedman● Washington Post: Richard Cohen, Eugene RobinsonBooks:● Helena Rosenblatt, The Lost History of Liberalism. PrincetonUniversity Press, 2018.● Paul Starr, Freedom’s Power: The True Force of Liberalism.Basic Books, 2007.READING LIST ON CONSERVATISMMagazines:● The American Interest● The National Review● CommentaryColumnists:● Wall Street Journal: Peggy Noonan● New York Times: David Brooks, Bret Stephens, Ross Douthat● Washington Post: Megan McArdle, George WillBooks:● Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to a GreatTradition. St. Martin’s Press, 2017.● Jerry Muller, Conservativism: An Anthology of Socialand Political Thought from David Hume to thePresent. Princeton University Press, 2003.Additional Resources● Glenn Loury’s writings, blogs, and videos. Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences Brown Univ., African American.● The Heterodox Academy (Mixed political academic group promoting free speech on campuses)● Theflipside.io (Sends a daily email of curated news articles from left, center and right that have been vetted for newsworthiness to &quot;burst your media bubble.&quot;)● Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Vintage, 2008. Psychologist looking at the moral intuitions of liberals and conservatives.Questions? C﻿ontactL﻿aura: lpascal@braverangels.comS﻿abrina: sgarland@braverangels.com

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