Book Reviews: Justificatory Liberalism, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Affirmative Action and the Stalled Quest for Black Progress, Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and Dissent are Changing American Democracy, The Politics of Affirmative Action: Women’, Equality and Category Politics, No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, Countdown to Armageddon: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis, The Heath Government 1970–1974, Young Conservatives: A History of the Young Conservative Movement, the Winds of Change: Macmillan to Heath, 1957–1975, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach, Toleration: An Elusive Virtue, Power, Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault, Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy, the Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation, Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process, Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain, Vol. 1

This chapter first traces the roots of the stylized history of Progressivism's role in American liberalism found in the pronouncements of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party to a small cadre of conservatives grouped around the Claremont Institute, with the political philosopher Charles Kesler at its center. It explains how the ideas of these political thinkers spread through the conservative movement, with particular attention to the Heritage Foundation as a central node of the network, and how it came to be available when the opportunity for wider dissemination opened. The second section examines how this critique exploded into broader circulation within the conservative movement. The third section investigates why the attack on Progressivism was so avidly embraced by Tea Party conservatives at this precise time, how it provided a coherent story of America and, with that, the emotional energy needed to mobilize an already historically inflected movement. The fourth section discusses how this fundamentalist perspective on the nation's history, and on President Obama's place in it, has more than its share of outright lunacy. The wilder versions of antiprogressivism advanced by Beck and the less cautious scholars who influenced him have obscured and overtaken a more nuanced critique within conservatism, one that liberals would do well to take seriously. The wrong response to Tea Party fundamentalism is to respond in kind and simply hunker down in an alternative belief system.

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More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard By Clyde W. Barrow. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000. 289p. $39.95.

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055402210461 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 795-795

Author(s):

Ruth O'Brien

Keyword(s):

New Brunswick ◽

Political Science ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Economic Thought ◽

The Political ◽

Political Scientist ◽

Economic Interpretation ◽

History Of ◽

Ample Reason

Clyde Barrow's More Than a Historian provides a fascinating intellectual history of Charles Beard, a political scientist whom he places in the “pantheon of thinkers that most scholars no longer read” (p. xvi). With 42 books, scores of coauthored books, and hundreds of articles and book reviews, Beard can be only characterized as amazingly prolific. Yet the only book that still resonates in political science and American history is An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913). Barrow's history of Beard gives us ample reason finally to read it or read it again.

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Conservative-Clerical Utopia in Mexico: the Synarquista Movement

Istoriya ◽

10.18254/s207987840017600-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (11 (109)) ◽

pp. 0

Author(s):

Andrey Schelchkov

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Urban Population ◽

The Political ◽

Political Struggle ◽

Conservative Movement ◽

Important Place ◽

Political Situation ◽

History Of ◽

Social Project ◽

The Masses

The radical revolution 1910—1917 in Mexico, gave rise to a powerful conservative movement, supported by the masses in regions where revolutionary changes had conflicting results, contributing to the formation of a kind of Mexican “Vendée”. Such a region was the center of the country — Bajio, which became the scene of sharp clashes in the 1920s, which resulted in the civil war of the cristeros, who raised their arms after the adoption of anti-church legislation. After the defeat of the cristeros, the leadership in confronting the revolutionary government shifted to the Synarchist movement, which rejected violence as a form of political struggle. Synarchism in the 1930s — 1940s turned into the most influential and massive political force of the opposition, representing integralist Catholicism, hispanism, traditionalism in ideology and a combination of totalitarian practices with the rejection of the struggle for power. The movement declared itself a “crusade” against world Jewry, liberalism and communism, felt itself a messianic asceticism. It was able to mobilize, under millenarian slogans, the masses of the peasant and urban population of Mexico. The Synarchists embarked on their utopian social project for a truly Catholic society through the creation of the colony “María Auxiliadora” in Baja California. More than a thousand Synarchists took part in this venture. The collapse of this project and changes in the political situation in the country at the end of the 1940s led to the decline of the movement, and then its ban by the authorities. This work is devoted to the analysis of the ideology and political practice of Synarchismo, which occupied an important place in the history of the conservative popular movement in Latin America, and in Mexico in particular, in the 20th century.

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Book Reviews : H.K. Barpujari, gen. ed., and S.K. Barpujari and A.C. Bhuyan, eds. Political History of Assam, Volume One, 1826-1919. Gauhati: Government of Assam, Department for the Preparation of the Political History of Assam, 1977. Pp. xviii+293. Price Rs 20.00

International Studies ◽

10.1177/002088178001900311 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 541-542

Author(s):

Kapileshwar Labh

Keyword(s):

Political History ◽

The Political ◽

History Of

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The “Shekou Storm”: Changes in the Mentality of Chinese Youth Prior to Tiananmen

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741000035050 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 142 ◽

pp. 541-572

Author(s):

Luo Xu

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

High Tide ◽

Think Tanks ◽

The Political ◽

Chinese Society ◽

Chinese History ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Chinese Youth ◽

Mass Protest ◽

General Secretary

In 1988, a year before the greatest urban mass protest in modern Chinese history, three major events took place in the cultural, ideological and theoretical realms. One was the broadcasting of the TV series River Elegy (Heshang) in June and the extensive discussions and disputes about it in July and August. The second was the controversy over the political theory of Neo-Authoritarianism, which started in the second half of 1988 and reached a peak in early 1989. The third event was the so-called Shekou Storm (Shekou fengbo) that began in February 1988 and lasted more than eight months. While River Elegy was the high tide of cultural reflection (wenhua fansi) which aimed at examining the cultural and historical roots of current socio-political problems, the Neo-Authoritarianism was a theoretical trend among some young social scientists and members of Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang's think-tanks who were struggling to address pressing issues arising from the reform. The significance of these two events has been realized by many people studying the evolution of Chinese society in the 1980s and the background of the 1989 movement. In contrast, the Shekou Storm, which made an equivalent sensation throughout the country, has received much less attention.

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Book Review

Journal of European Social Policy ◽

10.1177/02761467103802241 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 375-376

Keyword(s):

Welfare State ◽

Political History ◽

The Political ◽

History Of

Book reviews: Petersen, Klaus, Ligitimität und Krise. Die politische Geschichte des dänischen Wohlfahrtstaates 1945-73 [Legitimacy and Crisis. The Political History of the Danish Welfare State 1945-73] (reviewed by Anders Lindbom)

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