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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The idea of human progress is a myth. While there have been periods of improvement in the way humans treat each other, history is a jagged line with no discernible slope.
#2 There has been steady progress toward liberalism over the last two centuries, but this progress has been met with the rise of the modern police state in response.
#3 The past few decades have seen a dramatic decrease in violence around the world, and many have become convinced that human beings have changed fundamentally since the 1930s.
#4 The liberal order is not natural, and it has not been the result of any changes in human nature. It is the by-product of a unique set of circumstances contingent on a particular set of historical outcomes, including the battlefield, which could have turned out differently.

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United States

20th century

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	24 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669359159
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The idea of human progress is a myth. While there have been periods of improvement in the way humans treat each other, history is a jagged line with no discernible slope.

#2

There has been steady progress toward liberalism over the last two centuries, but this progress has been met with the rise of the modern police state in response.

#3

The past few decades have seen a dramatic decrease in violence around the world, and many have become convinced that human beings have changed fundamentally since the 1930s.

#4

The liberal order is not natural, and it has not been the result of any changes in human nature. It is the by-product of a unique set of circumstances contingent on a particular set of historical outcomes, including the battlefield, which could have turned out differently.

#5

The return of authoritarianism is evident all around us. The liberal order, which was once thought to be inevitable, is now facing multiple crises from within and without.

#6

A growing number of Americans believe that the liberal order is not only unsustainable, but also undesirable. They believe that the struggle to uphold it is either hopeless or misguided.

#7

It is wrong to call those who ask these questions isolationists. Most are not suggesting that the United States pull up the drawbridge and cut off all ties with the outside world. They simply want the United States to act more like a normal nation.

#8

The questions Americans are asking today are similar to those asked in the 1920s and 1930s, when most Americans did not believe they faced an existential threat to their security and way of life.

#9

The transatlantic world at the beginning of the new century was optimistic about the future of humankind. They believed that all of history was an upward climb from ignorance and barbarism to understanding and civilization, and that the end point was liberalism and peace.

#10

The First World War was not just a struggle for territory, but a struggle between political systems. For Americans, it was a struggle against authoritarianism and militarism, and for a better world.

#11

After World War I, Americans were reluctant to change course, even though they were presented with unexpected developments such as Hitler coming to power in Germany and Japan invading China. They assumed that the situation would stabilize, and that the aggressors would see the folly of their ways or be beaten back.

#12

The America First Committee was formed in 1940 to reject the idealism of their fathers’ generation, which had led them to war in 1917, and instead focus on realist concerns such as the cost and danger of intervention.

#13

Roosevelt was able to convince Americans to provide greater and greater assistance to Britain in 1940 and 1941, but he never managed to persuade Americans that this was sufficient reason to go to war.

#14