Booktopia has been placed into Voluntary Administration. Orders have been temporarily suspended, whilst the process for the recapitalisation of Booktopia and/or sale of its business is completed, following which services may be re-established. All enquiries from creditors, including customers with outstanding gift cards and orders and placed prior to 3 July 2024, please visit https://www.mcgrathnicol.com/creditors/booktopia-group/
Add free shipping to your order with these great books
The Pity Party : A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion - William Voegeli

The Pity Party

A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion

By: William Voegeli

eBook | 17 January 2024

At a Glance

eBook


RRP $27.49

$21.99

20%OFF

Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App

When liberals don't have reason, authority, or the American people on their side, they turn to the one thing they never run out of: Pity.

For decades, conservatives have chafed at being called "heartless" and "uncaring" by liberals who maintain that our essential choice as a nation is between the politics of kindness and the politics of cruelty. In The Pity Party, political scientist William Voegeli turns the tables on this argument, making the case that "compassion" is neither the essence of personal virtue nor the ultimate purpose of government.

Over the years, liberals have built a remarkable edifice of government programs that are justified by appeals to compassion: Head Start, immigration reform, gun control, affirmative action, and entitlements, to name only some. As Voegeli amply demonstrates, the liberals who promote these massive programs are weirdly indifferent as to whether they succeed. Instead, when the problems they are intended to solve fail to disappear, liberals double down, calling for yet more programs and ever greater expenditures in the name of "compassion." Meanwhile, conservatives who challenge the effectiveness of these programs are slandered as "heartless right-wingers."

Yet rather than challenge this tendentious liberal argument, the many conservatives it intimidates feel it necessary to insist that they really do "care." However, liberal compassion's good intentions consistently fail to translate into good results. Voegeli walks the reader through a plethora of programs that have become battlefields between conservatives fighting for more efficiency and liberals fighting for more budget-busting federal programs to address an ever-expanding catalog of social ills. Along the way, he explains the underpinnings of the liberal philosophy that reinforce this misapplied ideal and shows why today's self-described compassionate liberals are ultimately unfit to govern.

Industry Reviews
A brilliant turn of a phrase with every turn of a page. Literally.
on

More in Political Ideologies & Movements

America : Our Next Chapter - Chuck Hagel

eBOOK

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF
Hating America : The New World Sport - John Gibson

eBOOK

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF
The Holy Vote : The Politics of Faith in America - Ray Suarez

eBOOK

Occupy : American Spring - Buck Sexton

eBOOK

RRP $13.19

$10.99

17%
OFF
Imagine : Living in a Socialist U.S.A. - Frances Goldin

eBOOK

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF
Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - David T. Hardy

eBOOK