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What are liberals reading?
Less than a week ago, I posed a question as to what Conservative are reading, and tried to gear it towards maybe the last 3 to 5 books they have read on political science and economics. I got some good answers, other, I think were looking for 2 points.
Dead serious question, what would you recommend a conservative, like myself, go down to the library and read?
(Half jokingly) I won't buy a book by a liberal author, but Sun Tzu wrote many years ago that we need to know our enemy. I am more than willing to look at the other side, but I would like to know maybe 3 books that a liberal would say would be worthwhile for a conservative to read.
Big note. I am currently reading "The Reagan Diaries". The last few books I have read are "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg, The Federalist Papers, and Liberty and Tyranny. My next 2 books are "The 5000 Year Leap" and "The Road To Serfdom" by a Nobel Prize winning economist. Al Frankin's "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big, Fat Idiot" won't make the cut.
Oh, and I do know that Thomas Paine was pro-French Revolution, while Edmund Burke was not, and why, so serious reading only.
Call, I appreciate your responce. However, you sai "they". Looking more for liberals.
And yes, Liberal Facsism is a serious read. Based on g's answer, I doubt he could make it through 50 pages of that book. "Jacobian" and "hegemony" would be words I am guessing he wouldn't even have any concept on their meaning or context.
While I gave you a thumbs up, it was weak at best.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
they're reading "The Worst Person In the World" by Keith Olberman, ironically, his picture is on the cover....
hey "g", Ive read Liberal Fascism too, and it actually is a pretty serious book, it explains how today's modern liberal ideology and fascism in the early part of the 20th century are alike and came from the same "progressive" era, Goldberg actually backs up his claims with facts too, its a good read for people who arent stuck on party lines and closed minded
- John CLv 41 decade ago
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Books for Dummies.
completely guessing here, cause I'm not a liberal (socialist).
- 1 decade ago
Do you think we Liberals have an specific range of content for the books we read?
Pathetic assumptions as usual.
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English it's not my Primary language.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
you listed "Liberal Fascism"... yet you say "serious reading only"?
are you serious?
I was reading "Freakonomics," it's interesting... not so much "liberal"
EDIT: I saw Goldberg on a few shows... each time his ideas about both the past and modern liberalism were laughable..
he's cherry picked history enough to convince himself that he is right though...
its about as close to what Franken calls conservative ideology is to actual conservative thought...
"open minded"... if you say so...
EDIT: good old "you're stupid" fall-back insult... classic... I"m sure you love Goldberg... finding "smarter ways" to call liberals names...
you're a grand intellectual... if you use big words... it's OK to call names... right?
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
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