The Rise Of The New Puritans
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Summary of Noah Rothman's The Rise of the New Puritans
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-08-29T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Poetry Foundation, a prestigious literary organization, was called out for not doing enough to uplift the Black community. They responded by saying they would resign their president and board chairman, and that they were committed to uplifting Black people. #2 The Republican Party engaged in sanctimonious judgmentalism and moral preening, and it was right-wing political culture that wanted to limit your access to the perverting influences of musical acts and comedy. #3 Progressives are committed to inclusivity and acceptance on one’s own terms. They are dedicated to the cause of environmental conservationism and the preservation of our ecological inheritance for future generations. #4 Many progressive Americans are devoted to the communitarian ideal, which entails putting the needs of the community before your own. They are zealous advocates for democratization, even at the risk of inviting the worst abuses of the Athenian mob.
The Rise of the New Puritans
Commentary editor Noah Rothman takes aim at the "woke left," comparing them to stern, joyless Puritans who seek to make every daily choice a matter of life or death and break society down into the saintly or sinful. In Noah Rothman's view, the left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it's home to woke scolds and humorless ideologues. From entertainment to food to comedy to family life, there's no area of society the new leftists don't want to control, he argues. These new joyless progressives only dislike witch hunts when they're not the ones running them. Like their puritanical forebears, new leftists do not abide forms of pleasure that distract from the great work of our time--righting the wrongs of America's white patriarchal heritage. As Rothman sees it, Progressive Puritans are committed to waging a war on decadence, frivolity, and pleasure for its own sake. In pursuit of a better world, these people are making fools of themselves and impoverishing their compatriots. In this hard-hitting critique, Rothman shows no mercy as he uncovers the historical roots of the left's war on fun and counsels us to rediscover the freedom and joy at the heart of the American experiment.
The Puritans
Author: David D. Hall
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2019-11-12
Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished.