The End Of Equality
- ISBN-10
- 0465098142
- ISBN-13
- 9780465098149
- Category
- Political Science / History & Theory
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-09-15
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Author
- Mickey Kaus
Description
In this provocative, far-ranging work, Mickey Kaus tells why Democrats, and the liberal tradition they represent, have failed to come to grips with the profound forces dividing American society. In the process, he sets out a bold framework for a revived Democratic activism. Liberals, Kaus argues, have been obsessed with the very thing they should be trying to render less significant, namely money. Specifically, they are preoccupied with closing the income gap between rich and poor. But, as Kaus demonstrates, the rich are getting richer primarily due to deep, long-term shifts in the economy. Nothing the Democrats propose will even come close to reversing these trends. There is an alternative liberal strategy: to pursue, not money equality but social equality--equality in the way we treat each other in everyday life. Instead of attempting to suppress the inequality of money generated in the market, Kaus contends, liberals should restrict the sphere in which money matters, building a public sphere in which all Americans are respected as equals. That means restoring old "class-mixing" institutions such as the draft, and creating new ones such as a national health care system. It means absorbing the urban "underclass" into the mainstream working culture by replacing cash welfare with a WPA-style jobs program. And it means ending the class segregation of the suburbs. Kaus's proposed "civic liberalism" is anything but moderate. It's sure to be controversial. But it also offers a solution to what may be the country's gravest problem--the fracturing of society along lines of wealth and race. The End of Equality should be at the center of the debate over the future of American politics.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Theory and inquiry in American politics
By Edward D. Mansfield, Richard Sisson, American Political Science Association. MeetingWashington, D.C. Uslaner, Eric M. 1993. The Decline of Comity in Congress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Valelly, Richard M. 1996. “Couch-potato Democracy?” American Prospect 25: 25–26. Valentino, N. A. 1999.
-
1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
By Richard VinenRichard Vinen pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that arose from 1968 and the brutal reactions from those in power that brought the era to an end.
-
European Political Thought, 1815-1989
By Spencer M Di Scala, Salvo Mastellone, Spencer Di ScalaIn addition, the book includes clear, concise discussions of major twentieth-century totalitarian movements—Communism, Fascism, and Nazism—and of the major opponents of the one-party state.
-
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851
By Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn... Alexander 1919n2 MacCarthy , C.J. 1735n2 Macclesfield , 5th Earl of 1860n2 McCulloch , John Ramsay 1893 & n2 ... 2050n6 Mackenzie , Hugh 1877n8 Mackenzie , William Forbes 1975n2 Mackinnon , William Alexander i 188n11 , 1758n2 ...
-
North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival
By Young Whan Kihl, Hong Nack Kim... covert , or semiformal — that were extended to the DPRK by Western governments in the kangsong taeguk period , we might well discover that the ratio of such outside assistance to local commercial earnings began to approach the scale ...
-
The Press and the Bush Presidency
By Mark J. RozellBernard Roscho , " The Evolution of News Content in the American Press , " in Doris Graber , ed . , Media Power in ... William L. Rivers , The Other Government : Power and the Washington Media ( New York : Universe Books , 1982 ) , p .
-
Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction
By Fidelma Ashe, Alan FinlaysonAccording to Harding , this means that the political standpoint of the scientist is a relevant consideration in the evaluation of scientific theories . Rigorous scientific scholarship can only take place under conditions where women and ...
-
Federalism
By Robert P. SuttonThe Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds televised hearings on the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court that focus on Bork's understanding of " original intent . " The Court , in Texas v . Johnson , sets aside a state ...
-
الحكم في عالم يتجه نحو العولمة: Governance in a Globalizing World
By John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Jr. Nyeالعولمة نضجت من مجرد كلمة طنانة مثيرة للجدل حول كيف تغير شبكات الاتصال الثقافة والاقتصاد والأمن والبيئة - ومعها التحديات الرئيسية ...
-
FDR and Harry: Unparalleled Lives
By Robert Underhill... 3 , 47 , 55–57 passim , 70 , 78 , 99 , 109 , 111 , 120 , 164-65 , 179–80 , 183 Hoover , J. Edgar , 178–79 Hopkins ... General von , 129 Johnson , Hiram , 96 , 130 Johnson , Hugh , 95 Johnson , Louis A. , 175 Johnson , Lyndon B.