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Gomorrah, a city legendary for its intractable wickedness, was demolished by god in a cataclysm of brimstone and fire in the old testament book of genesis. Slouching towards gomorrah audiobook listen instantly. Reading this a second time, i now realize just how prescient robert bork was in his assessment of our culture and its disturbingly downward spiral in recent years. It was a thesis bork bluntly explicated in his bestselling 1996 book, slouching towards gomorrah. The root of our decline, bork argues, is the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical. Bork, our countrys most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a. An eloquent, often elegant, advocate, bork whose ultimately aborted nomination to the us supreme court unleashed an ideological firestorm in mid1987 defines latterday liberalism as an ad hoc coalition of cultural elites academics, ecclesiastics, entertainers, filmmakers. It was published by harpercollins and has a total of 400 pages in the book. The optimist, however, will be energized both by the glimmers of hope bork observes and the way he dogs members of the new left. In a book written six years after the tempting of america, bork offered some striking reflections on how the left so completely came to dominate american culture and politics. Bork, our countrys most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and. Olin scholar in legal studies at aei, writes in his new book, slouching towards gomorrah. Only religion can accomplish for a modern society what tradition, reason, and empirical observation cannot.
Bork 1996, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. Slouching towards gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful expose of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical egalitarianism the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities and radical individualism the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification, has undermined our culture, our intellect, and our morality. This book, which became a perhaps unexpected bestseller, is a catalogue raisonnee of the legacy of the 1960s, and in particular of that decades sudden explosion of hatred toward this country on the part of some of its most privileged citizens, the children of the liberal. As a nation, we are pursuing a path toward gomorrah, the biblical city burned to the ground for the sinfulness of its people. A former judges stinging indictment of the havoc postmodern liberalism has wrought on the state of the american union. The book reminds me of the cantankerous old relative at the dinner table who cant stop talking about how terrible things are today. At, you can see the view of every candidate on every issue. And the rough beast that the visionary poet yeats foresaw in 1919 is now a monster of decadence, a plague several generations in gestation, and we, as a nation, are now slouching, not towards bethlehem, but towards gomorrah, the biblical city burned to the ground for the sinfulness of its people. Modern liberalism and american decline from the worlds largest community of readers. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
The west is now in danger of survival in that it has lost its moral compass, and seems almost irrevocably heading to gormorah. Robert bork and slouching toward gomorrah robert p. Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces. As a nation, we are pursuing a path toward gomorrah, the biblical city burned to the ground for the sinfulness of its. Robert bork on slouching towards gomorrah catholic insight. Full text of slouching towards gomorrah modern liberalism and american decline see other formats.
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