The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology

Transaction Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VERY GOOD+ No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. DJ is VG. Gently read. . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Foreword by Robert Sirico -- * Introduction: The Age of Politics ----- * PART I. THE TRANSCENDENT QUESTIONS: 1.) Virtue versus Freedom: Allies or Antagonists? -- 2.) God and the Economy: Is Capitalism Moral? -- 3.) Should Christians Be Statists? -- 4.) Libertarians and Christians in a Hostile World ----- * PART II. ABORTION: IRRCONCILABLE CONFLICT: 5.) The Real Meaning of Choice -- 6.) From Pro-Choice to Pro-Coercion -- 7.) The Escalating Abortion Wars ----- * PART III. EARTH KEEPING OR EARTH WORSHIP?: 8.) Ecology as Religion: Faith in Place of Fact -- 9.) Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics ----- * PART IV. REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE: THE NEW WILSONISM: 10.) Keep the Troops and the Money at Home -- 11.) The Pitfalls of Collective Security ----- * PART V. INTERNATIONAL DEBR OR DEVELOPMENT?: 12.) The Misdeeds of International Aid -- 13.) World Bank: Servant of Governments, Not Peoples ----- * PART VI. THE REGULATORY STATE: 14.) America's Regulatory Dirty Dozen -- 15.) Whither Health Care in the Age of Clinton? -- 16.) The Pharmaceutical Industry: Problem or Solution? -- 17.) National Service: Utopias Revisited -- 18.) Real Welfare Reform: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- 19.) War on Drugs or America? ----- * PART VII. REDISTRIBUTION WITHOUT END: 20.) Still Paying for Government -- 21.) The Decade of Envy -- 22.) Not Theirs to Give -- 23.) Tax Fairness, Clinton-Style -- 24.) The New Democrats: Spend and Tax, Rather than Tax and Spend -- 25.) A Coast-to-Coast Federal Dole -- 26.) The Time of the Political Locusts -- 27.) The NEA: They Still Don't Get It. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.