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We are doomed : reclaiming conservative pessimism / by John Derbyshire.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crown Forum, 2009.Description: 261 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780307409584 :
  • 0307409589 :
Other title:
  • Reclaiming conservative pessimism
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.520973
LOC classification:
  • JC 573.65 D428d 2009
Contents:
A call to pessimism -- Diversity: nothing to celebrate -- Politics: show business for ugly people -- Culture: pooped out -- Sex: surplus to requirements -- Education: Yale or jail -- Human nature: ask your aunt -- Religion: what shall we do to be saved? -- War: invading the world -- Immigration: inviting the world -- Foreigners: inspecting the world -- The economy: in hock to the world -- The audacity of hopelessness.
Summary: Don't be seduced by all this nonsense about "the politics of hope": skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament.
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Don't be seduced by all this nonsense about "the politics of hope": skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament.

A call to pessimism -- Diversity: nothing to celebrate -- Politics: show business for ugly people -- Culture: pooped out -- Sex: surplus to requirements -- Education: Yale or jail -- Human nature: ask your aunt -- Religion: what shall we do to be saved? -- War: invading the world -- Immigration: inviting the world -- Foreigners: inspecting the world -- The economy: in hock to the world -- The audacity of hopelessness.

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