New Threats to Freedom
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In the twentieth century, free people faced a number of mortal threats, ranging from despotism, fascism, and communism to the looming menace of global terrorism. While the struggle against some of these overt dangers continues, some insidious new threats seem to have slipped past our intellectual defenses. These new threats are quietly eroding our hard-won freedoms, often unchallenged and, in some cases, widely accepted as beneficial.In New Threats to Freedom, editor and author Adam Bellow has assembled an all-star line up of innovative thinkers to challenge these insidious new threats. Some leap into already raging debates on issues such as Sharia law in the West, the rise of transnationalism, and the regulatory state. Others turn their attention to less obvious threats, such as the dogma of fairness, the failed promises of the blogosphere, and the triumph of behavioral psychology. These threats are very real and very urgent, yet this collection avoids projecting an air of doom and gloom. Rather, it provides a blueprint for intellectual resistance so that modern defenders of liberty may better understand their enemies, more effectively fight to preserve the meaning of freedom, and more surely carry its light to a new generation.Contributors include: Anne Applebaum, Bruce Bawer, Peter Berkowitz, Max Borders, Richard Epstein, Jessica Gavora, Michael Goodwin, Daniel Hannan, Alexander Harrington, Mark Helprin, Christopher Hitchens, James Kirchick, William Kristol, Greg Lukianoff, Barry Lynn, David Mamet, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Tara McKelvey, Mark Mitchell, Michael Moynihan, Chris Norwood, Glenn Reynolds, Naomi Riley, Christine Rosen, Ron Rosenbaum, Stephen Schwartz, Lee Siegel, Christina Sommers, Shelby Steele, Tunku Varadarajan, and Dennis Whittle. Adam Bellow is vice president/executive editor at Harper-Collins. He has also been an executive editor at Doubleday (Random House) and was formerly editorial director of The Free Press (Simon & Schuster). His essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush (Anchor).
Introduction• Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone? Adam Bellow 1 The Decline of American Press Freedom ix Anne Applebaum 2 The Closing of the Liberal Mind 3 Bruce Bawer 3 The New Dogma of Fairness 14 Peter Berkowitz 4 The Urge to Regulate 24 Max Borders 5 The Isolation of Today’s Classical Liberal 35 Richard A. Epstein 6 Single Women as a Threat to Freedom 46 Jessica Gavora 7 The Loss of the Freedom to Fail 56 Michael Goodwin 8 The European Union as a Threat to Freedom 67 Daniel Hannan 9 Bad Political Theatre 76 Alexander Harrington 10 The Rise of Antireligious Orthodoxy 87 Mark Helprin 98 11 Multiculturalism and the Threat of Conformity Christopher Hitchens 12 The Tyranny of the News Cycle 110 Robert D. Kaplan 13 Transnational Progressivism 119 James Kirchick 14 Students against Liberty? 126 Greg Lukianoff 15 Belief in False Gods 137 Barry C. Lynn 16 The Fairness Doctrine 147 David Mamet 17 The War on Negative Liberty 157 Katherine Mangu-Ward 18 The Abandonment of Democracy Promotion 162 Tara McKelvey 19 Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom 171 Mark T. Mitchell 20 The Anticapitalists 181 Michael C. Moynihan 21 The Rise of Mass Dependency 189 Chris Norwood 22 Liberty and Complacency 199 Glenn Harlan Reynolds 23 Threats to Philanthropic Freedom 211 Naomi Schaefer Riley 24 The New Behaviorists 220 Christine Rosen 230 25 Cyber-Anonymity Ron Rosenbaum 26 Shariah in the West 240 Stephen Schwartz 27 Participatory Culture and the Assault on Democracy 248 Lee Siegel 28 The U.N. Women’s Treaty as a Threat to Freedom 259 Christina Hoff Sommers 29 The Illusion of Innocence 268 Shelby Steele 30 Orthodoxy and Freedom in International Aid 280 Dennis WhittleList of Contributors 301 290
