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Published on: 2012-01-03
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No movement resembling American social conservatism exists anywhere else in the world of affluent democracy encompassing western Europe and Japan. This simple, undeniable fact has led many commentators to treat social conservatism as a “retro” movement soon to disappear in the U. S. as well, an inevitable (if lagging) casualty of global modernization.Author and political activist Jeffrey Bell argues that social conservatism is uniquely American because it is in reality an outgrowth of American exceptionalism. It exists here because the founding principles of the United States—centering on the belief that humanity receives its equal rights directly from God rather than from government—retain a mass following among American voters, even in the wake of abandonment of belief in America’s theistic founding by elites and institutions that once espoused it. This allegiance to the founding, rather than some quasi-theocratic project by what is frequently misnamed the “religious right,” accounts for social conservatism’s comparatively recent birth and persistent strength in U. S. politics—and also for its absence in societies whose foundings were not rooted in the universality of God-given human rights.Bell argues that a worldwide upheaval in the 1960s set the stage for the rise of social conservatism, which had no earlier political existence. The 1960s upheaval resulted in the triumph of the social agenda of the left, particularly the sexual revolution, among elite opinion in the United States as well as in Europe, Japan and elsewhere. In subsequent decades the global left has sidelined its century-long drive for socialism and returned to its late-eighteenth-century roots in the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the radical French revolutionaries known as the Jacobins, who believed human fulfillment depends on liberation from most civilized institutions, particularly organized religion and the family.Despite the many predictions of its demise, social conservatism has gained and held popular strength in the U. S. because of its roots in a theistic version of the European enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, which Bell describes and analyzes as the “conservative enlightenment.” It is a rich, optimistic belief system that not only dominated the American founding but transformed society in the English-speaking world and remains an attractive alternative in the eyes of many of the world’s peoples—certainly in comparison to the competing universalisms advocated by the left enlightenment and by the anti-egalitarian Islamic revival. The ability of social conservatism and of its parent, the conservative enlightenment, to revive and spread this natural law-centered democratic vision could reshape the battle of ideas that increasingly defines our post-Cold War world. American Politics Journal On Line since 1988 Opinion ... American Politics Journal On Line since 1988. Opinion Analysis Invective Satire and Electronics Policy Reviews and Commentary Since 1988 Paul Krugman - The New York Times Paul Krugman a New York Times Op-Ed columnist writes about macroeconomics trade health care social policy and politics. In 2008 he received the Nobel Prize in ... WSJ Opinion Journal Editorial page website from The Wall Street Journal with commentary and analysis on politics business the economy public policy and the arts. What Does It Mean To Be A Liberal? The Left Call May 27 2011 by David K. Sutton . What Does It Mean To Be A Liberal? We are witnessing a consolidation of the political left (liberal) and political right ... The Asahi Shimbun The Asahi Shimbun is widely regarded for its journalism as the most respected daily newspaper in Japan. The English version offers selected articles from ... Its NOT the economy stupid: Brexit as a story of ... The story of the referendum is usually told through geography: areas that had been left behind by globalisation voted to Leave. But this tells us only so much writes ... Uncommon Knowledge Hoover Institution For more than a decade the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet ... Opinion & Analysis on the Latest Breaking News Fox News Quote of the Day When I was a White House correspondent for the Christian weekly news magazine World in 2001 and 2002 I knew that those of us back in Row 7 were ... American exceptionalism - Wikipedia American exceptionalism is one of three related ideas. The first is that the history of the United States is inherently different from other nations. In this view ... America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual ... America dumbs down. The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
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