In this book, Harlan Field boldly asks modern Americans to leave behind their old politics which have placed America's greatness in jeopardy and exhorts us to pursue a new political strategy that will assure America's great tradition for its future generations. "As we enter a new millennium," Harlan observes, "we stand poised to discard the crowning achievement of the last thousand years-the modern Nation-State. The only known entity that is capable of preserving Freedom and opportunity for the individual, justice for the masses, a healthy environment, a stable society and a vibrant economy is falling victim to the seemingly invincible juggernaut of Globalism. The five cardinal prerogatives of a free people are all being surrendered with little debate and even less thought. The rights of a sovereign people to formulate their own independent foreign policy, to raise and command a national army, to admit or exclude aliens, to levy tariffs on goods of foreign manufacture, and to coin their own money are under attack all over the world through such peculiar pretenders to legitimacy as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the European Union (E.U.). W e no longer can even remember what makes a group of people into a nation: A common culture, a common heritage, a common language, shared goals, shared sacrifice, shared progress." This book is a must read for our politicians on the left and on the right, lest, because of party politics, America is made to give into a secondary role on the world stage of ruthless politics and demagoguery.

A careful analysis of the social media campaigns of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and the Brexit campaigners, which shows how today's new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by tapping into their history and culture. Across the West, there has been a resurgence of ethnic nationalism, populism, and anti-immigrant sentiment - a phenomenon that many commentators have called the "new nationalism." In The New Nationalism in America and Beyond, Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods seek to understand why the bastions of liberalism are proving to be fertile ground for a decidedly illiberal ideology. To do so, they examine the social media campaigns of three of the most successful exemplars of the new nationalism: Donald Trump in the US, Marine Le Pen in France, and Brexit in the UK. Schertzer and Woods show how today's new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by drawing from long-standing myths and symbols to construct an image of the nation as an ethnic community. Their cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach combines elements of political science, sociology, history, and communication and media studies, to show how leaders today are updating the historical foundations of ethnic nationalism for the digital age.

A quiet revolution is sweeping across the world and overturning the reigning liberal world order. Leaders across the Western world have strived at all costs to build an inclusive society that transcends race, culture, and even nationality. This vision of the world has been imposed upon the public by special interests that influence our mainstream media, academic institutions, and government. There has been much fanfare on the benefits of a diverse and global society, but little mention of its costs. These costs are substantial and can no longer be ignored. Across the world, some nations are prosperous while others are mired in poverty and crime. To be prosperous, a nation must have a talented population and the right set of cultural values. Our nation possesses these advantages, but it is throwing them away for the sake of inclusivity. New Nationalism is an acknowledgement and defense of the factors that have made America great. This book gives voice and reason to the visceral unease many feel about the direction our country is heading. Despite the vast wealth and influence of the global elite, they could not stop Brexit nor the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. They were defeated by millions of ordinary people across the world who were tired of watching their way of life slip away as their leaders grew rich off of public office. These people have lost confidence in the system, and they demand change. This global revolution is real and just beginning.

In this timely history, the editor of the National Review chronicles the history of nationalism and its intellectual roots, revealing how this political model—a refutation of globalism—became maligned and why it offers a viable way forward for America. In The Case for Nationalism, Rich Lowry refutes critics of the phenomenon on left and the right. He sets out the argument for nationalism, including how it is necessary to democratic self-government. Lowry points out that nationalism is an American tradition, one that is common to such diverse leaders as Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. According to Lowry, a true American nationalism should be grounded in our common citizenship, champion popular sovereignty, and exult in American history, culture, and ideals. It should be the enemy of identity politics. Lowry reclaims the term “nationalism” from those who equate it with racism, militarism and fascism. Offering a sure-to-be-controversial viewpoint in the debate over the direction of our country, he explains that nationalism, far from inherently divisive or hateful, is how Americans become the best version of themselves. He traces the development of an enlightened nationalism through Ancient Israel, which created the template for nationalism as we know it, and England, where the nation rose up against monarchical power. The American Revolution was the next step in the development of nationalism, which has been central to the American project ever since. It led to the expansion of the American nation’s territorial extent and its power, and eventually to our invaluable contribution to the creation of an international system of self-governing nations. Lowry contends that we must resist a cosmopolitanism that would erase America’s distinctiveness and subsume it in multi-national institutions. Instead, we should preserve our national identity, put our national interest first, and embrace our role as the world’s greatest nation.

In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: • Our rights come from God, not from the government. • The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. • The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. • The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past—or back to the muck we will go.

The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government’s entire raison d’être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. Government has become more responsive and inclusive, but the shift has also polarized politics and sowed a deep distrust of institutions. These developments demand a thorough reconsideration of historical governance. “A sterling example of political science at its best: analytically rigorous, historically informed, and targeted at questions of undeniable contemporary significance... Orren and Skowronek uncover a transformation that revolutionized American politics and now threatens to tear it apart.” —Timothy Shenk, New Republic “Wherever you start out in our politics, this book will turn your sense of things sideways and make you rethink deeply held assumptions. It’s a model of what political science could be, but so rarely is.” —Yuval Levin, National Review “A gripping narrative...opening up new avenues for reflection along methodological, conceptual, and normative lines.” —Bernardo Zacka, Contemporary Political Theory