Review: Yuval Levin's 'The Fractured Republic' part 2: Yesterday, I began my review of Yuval Levin’s new book The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism. Today, I shall conclude the review, although ...
MB:Levin is writing from a libertarian/individualist perspective and is blind to the existence of other world views. Many economists also share this blindnerss. He sees the egalitarian movements of the sixties and seventies-as well as the hierarchist/authoritarian movements on the right (such as the Moral Majority and the pro-life movement) as actions of individuals. They are much more than that. The civil rights movement still lives in the SCLC and Black Lives Matter. Occupy is a quntessential egalitarian movement as is the gay rights movement. He is blind to the nature of collective action, however, so he misses a lot.
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