How Long to Read The Closing of the Liberal Mind

How Long Does it Take to Read The Closing of the Liberal Mind?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read The Closing of the Liberal Mind by Kim R. Holmes

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and becoming instead an intolerant, rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent and stifles free speech. Tracing the new illiberalism historically to the radical Enlightenment, a movement that rejected the classic liberal ideas of the moderate Enlightenment that were prominent in the American Founding, Holmes argues that today’s liberalism has forsaken its American roots, incorporating instead the authoritarian, anti-clerical, and anti-capitalist prejudices of the radical and largely European Left. The result is a closing of the American liberal mind. Where once freedom of speech and expression were sacrosanct, today liberalism employs speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, and shaming rituals to stifle freedom of thought, expression, and action. It is no longer appropriate to call it liberalism at all, but illiberalism—a set of ideas in politics, government, and popular culture that increasingly reflects authoritarian and even anti-democratic values, and which is devising new strategies of exclusiveness to eliminate certain ideas and people from the political process. Although illiberalism has always been a temptation for American liberals, lurking in the radical fringes of the Left, it is today the dominant ideology of progressive liberal circles. This makes it a new danger not only to the once venerable tradition of liberalism, but to the American nation itself, which needs a viable liberal tradition that pursues social and economic equality while respecting individual liberties.

How long is The Closing of the Liberal Mind?

The Closing of the Liberal Mind by Kim R. Holmes is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Closing of the Liberal Mind Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read The Closing of the Liberal Mind aloud.

What Reading Level is The Closing of the Liberal Mind?

The Closing of the Liberal Mind is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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