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Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
2021
Overview
How our shifting sense of \"what's normal\" defines the
character of democracy \"A provocative examination
of social constructs and those who would alternately undo or
improve them.\"- Kirkus Reviews This sharp and
engaging collection of essays by leading governmental scholar Cass
R. Sunstein examines shifting understandings of what's normal, and
how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil
rights movement, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the founding itself, the
rise of gun rights, the response to COVID-19, and changing
understandings of liberty. Prevailing norms include the principle
of equal dignity, the idea of not treating the press as an enemy of
the people, and the social unacceptability of open expressions of
racial discrimination. But norms are very different from laws. They
arise and change in response to individual and collective action.
Exploring Nazism, #MeToo, the work of Alexander Hamilton and James
Madison, constitutional amendments, pandemics, and the influence of
Ayn Rand, Sunstein reveals how norms ultimately determine the shape
of government in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780300254044, 0300254040
