I'll post excerpts almost daily from "The work of generations", a review by Andrew C. McCarthy, of "On Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin. Hopefully, you will be inspired to buy the book and read it this summer:
"Tyranny is the suppression of liberty. In the United States, it is a soft but increasingly suffocating and arbitrary state power. The Obama moment is not “the iron fist of absolute despotism”—the only dire condition, the Founders explained, which could justify the last resort of revolution. But it is an alarming nadir for liberty. How did we get here, and how do we get back?
"Levin answers these questions in a well-conceived, exquisitely executed format. He first addresses the ways in which we have veered far from our founding principles: the centrality of faith, the primacy of the Constitution, federalism, free-market capitalism, the welfare state, the role of science, legal immigration, and national defense. Having diagnosed the pathology and its major symptoms, Levin finally offers his prescription, the “Conservative Manifesto”—a series of practical albeit hugely hard-to-implement remedies."
(to be comtinued)
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-work-of-generations-4086
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