Creed & Culture – serie

"Brilliant, the corrective we need to pull the nation back from the abyss of unreason."—Dean KoontzA bestselling moral philosopher dissects and explodes the crazy—but deadly serious—ideas that have spread, bred, and metastasized throughout contemporary society.What is happening to the world? Why does it seem like everyone has gone insane? Why are so many things that seemingly everyone believed the day before yesterday suddenly held to be retrograde, hateful, or even criminal? And why are things that everyone seemed to view as lunacy the day before yesterday suddenly taught or even required? In Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy, University of Texas philosopher J. Budziszewski patiently explains the delusions that beset us. Ranging over the topics of morality and happiness, politics and government, family and sexuality, the real and the unreal, and God and religion, Budziszewski makes the case for sanity in commonsense language accessible to all. Pandemic of Lunacy will be treasured by any who are troubled or confused, any who wonder whether the world has gone crazy or whether they have, and any who feel the need for a trustworthy guide in a topsy-turvy age.

“This may be the most enraging book you have ever read. It will certainly be one of the most illuminating.” —Matthew B. Crawford, author, Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open RoadAn inside-the-cab view of how an iconic American occupation is being destroyed by corporations, politicians, and bureaucrats.For decades, the trucker was a symbol of independence, a knight-errant of the open road. Today, drivers are treated not like people at all, but merely as “inputs” necessary (for now) in moving things from place to place. They are slowly being replaced: first by poorly paid, untrained, exploited—and often illegal—immigrants, and soon by driverless RoboTrucks. Truckers are spied on by corporations and governments, regulated into serfdom by politicians and bureaucrats, and considered an afterthought by managerial elites who despise those who do real work with their hands.Gord Magill, a third-generation trucker who has driven the ice roads of the Great White North, the deserts of the Australian Outback, and everywhere in between, . . .reveals the immigration scams putting grossly unqualified drivers behind the wheel—and causing horrific accidents on our nation’s roads;shows how surveillance technology makes today’s cab a virtual prison, demoralizing drivers and eradicating truck-stop culture; andgives an inside account of the trucker-led “Freedom Convoy” that provoked the most thorough persecution of political dissenters in Canadian history.End of the Road describes the human and cultural consequences of a short-sighted quest for efficiency that assigns good jobs a value of zero. Fresh and authentic, this book is a workingman’s call to save the dignity and freedom not just of truckers, but of all blue-collar workers.

“An instant classic.”—Yuval LevinA timely volume for America250 that illuminates what America means—and what it means to be an American.As Americans mark the semiquincentennial of their republic’s birth, they are deeply divided over the nature and meaning of the American Founding. Does the United States rest on an intrinsically racist basis, as is now so often claimed? Did the Declaration of Independence commit the United States to a perpetual revolution aimed at liberating the American people—and others—from all inherited constraints? If America’s framers were neither vile racists nor wild-eyed radicals, were they at least good liberals? They were in fact none of these things. In On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776, Russell Kirk, one of the most important and brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century, explains that America is not an “experiment,” but rather a particular expression of the entire Western heritage. The Founding of the United States should be understood as an essentially conservative act, writes Kirk, and is therefore an achievement in which sober-minded Americans ought to take pride. Besides fresh, accessible essays on the Declaration of Independence and the Founding period, On America includes Kirk’s insightful reflections on wise American statesmen from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to (surprisingly) Eugene McCarthy, as well as his interpretations of great American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Robert Frost to Mark Twain.

A profound analysis of the terrifying technologicalproject on which our world has embarked—and the ancient myth it recapitulates.Digital technology is hijacking our attention, colonizingour consciousness, harvesting our personal data, and destroying our souls. Wehave become a nation of addicts, unable to turn away from the glowing light ofthose digital devices which enchant and possess us. Furthermore, our disease isfacilitating the greatest concentration of power in history—except this timeour Tower of Babel is taking the form of a web composed of silicon andelectricity, a captivating and ubiquitous presence from which there is noescape.Or is there?As Mark T. Mitchell explains in Breaking Babel: How a Mysterious Biblical Story Can Help Christians Survivethe AI Revolution just asthe biblical Babel toppled, collapsing under the weight of its own hubris, theattempt to overcome human limits is fated to fail. Techno-optimists’ feverdreams of immortality and unparalleled power will ultimately be frustrated.Although we are bound to experience a period of intense chaos and confusion,reality will not be cheated.Including practical advice for holding fast to the trulyhuman in this troubling moment. Breaking Babel is essential reading foranyone who wishes to stay sane in an era of increasing madness.