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An American Manifesto
by Christopher Chantrill
Crisis of the Administrative State
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Government and the Technology of Force
If you scratch a reformer, you will likely discover a plan for more government
Business, Slavery and Trust
Business is all about trust and relationship.
Humanity’s Big Problem: Freeloaders
The modern welfare state encourages freeloaders.
The Bonds of Faith
No society known to anthropology or history has lacked religion.
A Critique of Human Mechanics
When governments tried to govern on mechanical principles.
The Paradox of Individualism
People that believe in individualism experience individualism as an advanced form of socialization.
From Multitude to Civil Society
Softening the hard edge of instrumental reason.
The Answer is Civil Society
Civil Society: the joint development of the market, civil society, and nationalism.
The Greater Separation of Powers
If you want to limit power you must limit power.
Conservatism Three by Three
Balancing tradition with adapting to changing times.
Imagining a Culture of Involvement
You must suggest an alternative.
The Poor Without the Welfare State
What would happen to the poor without a welfare state?
The Middle Class Without the Welfare State
Can the middle class thrive without the supervision of the welfare state?
Liberals and the Welfare State
Liberals ought to be equal to the task of living lives of creative endeavor without political power.
From Freeloaders to Free Givers
But are we too wedded to freeloading?
The Real Meaning of Society
Broadening the horizon of cooperation in the “last best hope of man on earth.”
Why We Fight
We must fight for our “shining city on a hill”
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners of America Unite!
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
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