Leviathan on the Right How the Rise of Big Government Conservatism Threatens Our Freedom and Our Future

by Tanner, Michael D.

• ISBN13: 9781933995007
• ISBN10: 1933995009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-15
• Publisher: Cato Institute

Summary

Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican president and republican control of Congress, government is bigger and more intrusive than ever. That is not by accident; it is the conscious aim of a new brand of conservatism that seeks, not to reduce the size of government, but to use big government for conservative ends. This book shows how the Bush administration, Congress, and large parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement have abandoned traditional conservative ideals and embraced the idea of big government.

Table of Contents

From oxymoron to governing philosophy
Big government : it isn't just for liberals anymore	p. 3
The roots of big-government conservatism	p. 19
Proving Lord Acton correct	p. 61
Big-government conservatism in action
Learning to love the welfare state	p. 77
National health care lite	p. 99
Blinking at the entitlements crisis	p. 119
Spending like Drunken democrats	p. 139
A national school board	p. 165
Power to the president	p. 181
National busybodies	p. 197
Defining the future
The small-government alternative	p. 207
The coming debate	p. 229
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