Who Rules?

Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

Roger Kimball

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781641771290
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Essays in Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Brazil.At the center of the populist challenge, this volume proposes, are two questions. The first revolves around the question of sovereignty: who governs a country? This question is at the center of all contemporary populist initiatives and has been posed with increasing urgency as the bureaucratic burden of what has come to be called the administrative state has intruded more and more forcefully upon the political and social life of Western democracies.The second key question, one related to the issue of sovereignty, concerns what Lincoln called "public sentiment": the widespread, almost taken-for-granted yet nonetheless palpable affirmation by a people of their national identity. The erosion of national sovereignty to which populism is a response has been accompanied by an erosion of that shared national consensus. Increasingly, the traditional pillars of this consensus—the binding forces of family, religion, civic duty, and patriotic filiation—have faltered before the blandishments of transnational progressivism.The debate sparked by these problems has turned on a number of high-profile issues which this volume seeks to address, including immigration, free trade, foreign policy, religious freedom, and the question of citizenship.

Index

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Abramowitz, Michael

academic queer theory

Adams, Henry

Adams, John Quincy

administrative state: cancel culture and; challenges to democracy from; entrenched bureaucracy of; illiberal liberalism espoused by; operation of; Progressivism and; ruin caused by

Alexander, Michelle

“America first,” assumption of

American Affairs

American Creed (doctrine based on)

American democracy promotion network (as anti-sovereignty force)

American nation; as “civic” nation; communal events of; cultural underpinnings; Declaration of Independence and; destructive ideas; direction of United States today; early belief; empires and; Founding Fathers (reverence for); French Revolution and; nationalism; territorial expansion of; unique character of; welfare state

Anton, Michael

Atlantic Charter

Azerrad, David

Bezos, Jeff

Biden, Joe

“Black Lives Matter”

Bloomberg, Michael

Bork, Robert

Brexit: British political system fractured by (Fukuyama); promise on (Johnson); referendum, media reaction to; struggle over

Brown, Wendy

“browning of America”

Burnham, James

Bush, George W.

Buskirk, Christopher

Caldwell, Christopher

cancel culture: freedoms curtailed by; social media

Carmichael, Stokely

Cass, Oren

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Churchill, Ward

Churchill, Winston

citizenship: cancel culture, rise of; commensurate political uniformity; diversity and; driver’s licenses; erosion of the citizen; Founders’ view of; freedoms curtailed; globalism; hyphenated Americans and; illegal aliens; loss of meaning of; middle class benchmark; nineteenth-century practices; Roosevelt’s court-packing effort; “safe spaces”; sanctuary cities; superstructures

Claremont Review of Books

Clemens, Michael

Clinton, Hillary

Codevilla, Angelo M.

Cohn, Norman

Cold War

Communism: conquests of; folkloric displays (Moscow); as form of political Messianism; Soviet (Cold War liberals and); Soviet (extinction of)

conservativism: creedal theory and; democratic sovereignty and; political (national character of); theoretical questions of; things viewed as fundamental to human life; true

Constitution. See U.S. Constitution

Coolidge, Calvin

Coronavirus epidemic

criminalization of policy differences

critical race theory

Croly, Herbert

Daniels, Anthony

“Davos man”

de Beauvoir, Simone

Declaration of Independence; as anchor of American republicanism (Lincoln); collective liberty proclaimed by; criticism of (cultural diversity and); principles sustained in the Creed; return to principles set forth in; role in validating the Revolution; self-evident truths of

deep state. See also administrative state

Democracy Digest

Democracy Without Borders?

demographic trend line

Diamond, Larry

diversity: citizenship and; demand for; demographic trend line; genuine; inclusivity, and equity (DIE); invocation of; meaning of; mission to achieve; paradox of; political enterprise; in race matters

Dolezal, Rachel

Dyson, Michael Eric

Electoral College

Elizabeth II (queen)

Ellis, Sarah Kate

Endangered Species Act

End of History, The

enemy (as idea); description of; ideology; integration among states; Kojève, Alexandre (as LIO architect); liberal international order; Marxism; Nazi Party; new regime, supporters of; reason for hope; recognition; soft despotism; Trump’s signature sin

establishment: due deference considered by; energies of; foreign policy; globalist (reaction to Trump’s speech); mantras repeated by; media; progressive; voting against; white-supremacist

European Commission, as administrative state

European Union, official anthem of

Facebook

Farrakhan, Louis

Federalist, The

FISA court warrant process

Fischer, Joschka

Fonte, John

Foucault, Michel

Founding Fathers: America of (John Quincy Adams); citizenship (view of); criticism of (cultural diversity and); foreign policy of; Lincoln’s invoking of to limit slavery expansion; point of government of; union of states forged by

freedom: curtailed (cancel culture); fate of; instinct for; lived (American colonists); paradox of; “post-national” state and; rhetoric about (elite enterprises); setbacks for (Freedom House); social justice and

Freedom House

free trade, ideology of

Fukuyama, Francis

Garvey, John

GDP growth: American prosperity and; misleading; ways to get

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GLAAD

globalism

Google

Gore, Al

Hanson, Victor Davis

Haynes, Gavin

Hazony, Yoram

health, overall (decline in)

Hendrickson, David C.

History of the American People

housing prices

Huawei

identity politics; androgyny; appeal of; contradictions of; deconstructing whiteness; demographic trend line; Department of Anti-racism (Kendi); discrimination and; diversity, paradox of; diversity of outcomes; mindset; neo-segregationism and; paradox of; “people of color”; in post-gender world; power of; problematic identity groups identified by; racial solidarity; real goal of; sex and; statistical parity; tolerance

ideology, suicide by. See suicide by

ideology Ignatiev, Noel

illegal aliens, citizenship and; safe havens for; statistics

illiberalism: emergence of; European Union’s; German

immigration: ban, repeal of (Obama); Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and; law; mass; nativist fears regarding; policy (China); policy (Denmark); policy (Poland); resistance to; sovereignty and; state policy; “unrelenting stream of” (Biden); West’s reliance on

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Pre- & Post-Citizens
• The Idea of an American Nation
• Sovereignty & Its Enemies
• The Left v. the Nation
• The Enemy Is an Idea
• Liberty: Collective & Individual
• Imagine All the People of Color
• America & the International Order
• Suicide by Ideology
• Contributors
• Index