{"product_id":"the-roots-of-liberalism-what-faithful-knights-and-the-little-match-girl-taught-us-about-civil-virtue-9781641774031","title":"The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civil Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis spirited book traces the roots of liberalism through the noblest traditions, virtues, institutions and longings embedded in Western culture.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberalism is under attack from both left and right, but anti-liberals have failed to understand how the tradition defines our idea of civic virtue. Liberalism is not an ideology that stands above our practices and judges them, but a practice itself, an inheritance of virtues, institutions, customs, and longings embedded in our culture and passed on through our memories and stories of moral heroes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Buckley explains how we learned magnanimity from the Code of Chivalry and to avoid brutishness from the Code of the Gentleman; how, through the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and the novels of Charles Dickens, kindness became a liberal virtue; how the republican virtue of the Founders can be traced back to fourteenth century Sienese merchants. From the stories that comprise the Western Tradition of liberalism, we learned the civic virtues that are the efficient secret of American constitutional government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anti-liberal cult of wokeness has attempted to cancel this tradition, but it will not long survive. It offers a creed of sin without absolution, of guilt without soul-easing joys, of frowns without laughter. It rejects the West's high culture and offers nothing in its place. Without learning, art, industry, or anything that might attract a person, its emptiness will soon be seen by all, and liberalism will continue to inspire the civic virtues of our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eF.H. Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e is a foundation professor at George Mason University's Scalia School of Law. He has also taught at McGill, the Sorbonne (Paris II), and Sciences Po in Paris. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eProgressive Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), \u003ci\u003eCuriosity\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eAmerican Secession\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Republican Workers Party\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eThe Way Back\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on Morning Joe, CNN, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Radio France, NPR, and many others. He is a citizen of Canada and became an American citizen on Tax Day, April 15, 2014. He lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife, Esther, and two German Shepherds.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Encounter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893151011090,"sku":"9781641774031","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fcf890ed-2835-4116-bb96-fae2652b7c39.jpg?v=1738223856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-roots-of-liberalism-what-faithful-knights-and-the-little-match-girl-taught-us-about-civil-virtue-9781641774031","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}