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    Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
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    Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
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    Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

    By Dennis Prager

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    Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the “American Trinity” of liberty, natural rights, and the melting-pot ideal of national unity are Islamic totalitarianism, European democratic socialism, capitalist dictatorship, or global chaos if we should fail.  America is Still the Best Hope, as this eminently sensible, profoundly inspiring volume so powerfully proves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9780062097811
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    Dennis Prager

    Dennis Prager, one of America’s most respected thinkers, is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and syndicated columnist. He has written four books, including the #1 bestseller Happiness Is a Serious Problem. He has lectured on all seven continents and may be contacted through his website, DennisPrager.com.

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    • 3/5
      The book is preaching to the choir. It's not going to persuade anyone to modify their political views.
    • 5/5
      This book gives readers clear and complete understanding about the Left, Islamism, and American Trinity. One should extracts much knowledge and wisdom from daily news and experience though, to really understand about the things described
    • 5/5
      This book helps to clarify the differences between Leftism and Conservatism. It enumerates the three basic American values: liberty, in God we trust and e pluribus unum, and explains why these are important values to American conservatives. It advocates that other countries adopt these values, without suggesting that other nations adopt any particular religion or lose their national identity.
    • 1/5
      I did not know a book could be this divorced from reality and nonfactual. Baffling.
    • 4/5
      The book is divided into three section: Leftism, Islamism, and America. The section on leftism is the best dissection of American liberalism I've read to date and is alone worth the price of admission. Were this the only section of the book it would deserve ten stars. I found the section on Islam to be at once a respectful and forthright examination of the shortcomings of Islam and a call for it to rise above them. The section detailing America's values is all pretty rudimentary stuff for any thinking conservative; however Prager's articulation is both useful and beneficial.My one (rather small) complaint about the book is Prager's less than accurate wording on some key philosophical concepts. (1) He conflates the terms "irrational" and "non-rational", attributing both to religion. True religion has aspects of the non-rational (beyond reason), but not the irrational (contrary to reason). (2) Prager calls God the "author" of the moral law--true in part but it denotes a certain arbitrariness to the moral law. More properly, God is the ground of the moral law. Goodness, Justice, et al are what they are not because of some arbitrary divine dictate, but because they are rooted in God's nature, in God who IS Goodness, Justice, et al. (3) Prager calls the heart the "generator of emotions". However, in classic Christian (i.e. Catholic) theology the heart is the root and center of the human person. "Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life" (Proverbs 4:23). With the heart we make the fundamental choice for good or evil. As such, the heart is more properly related to the will than the emotions. (4) Prager calls reason amoral and says that it is just as readily employed for evil as for good. How can this be if reason reflects the order of the universe in which there is a moral law? This flies in the face of Catholic natural law theology. Evil may appear rational IF its premises are granted, but at root it is contrary to reason. (5) Prager says that good and evil are "polar opposites". Evil is not a thing. If it were, then God would be responsible for creating it. Evil is a privation, or a subtraction, from good, as darkness is not the opposite of light, but merely the absence of light. (6) Prager says that God exists entirely outside nature. However, God is BOTH transcendent to and immanent in creation. He is the source and ground of all being. As such He sustains all of creation at every instance of its existence. (7) Prager says that nature has "no intrinsic value", but in the Bible (the Torah) which Prager quotes freely, God calls creation "good". All throughout the Bible, the majesty of creation is seen as pointing to God's existence and power.Again, these are minor quibbles. They do not involve major themes in the book. In fact, the basic gist of Prager's arguments are right on target. If you want an incisive dissection of the essence of leftism/American liberalism that is both pithy and comprehensive, do not hesitate to procure this book.

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