Publisher's Synopsis
What makes liberals tick? Can some rational sense be made of their often bizarre attitudes and pronouncements for our society? There must be some coherent logical framework, some rational ethos, underlying the peculiar world-view of liberals, with their multitude of counter-intuitive and incomprehensible opinions and policies. But that ethos is hard to discern for an outsider, someone not an initiate of their particular mindset. There is no manifesto or catalog of liberal first principles we can consult in order to understand liberalism. We have to reverse-engineer the liberal philosophy, extrapolating from the outward expressions of it which we see every day. We must attempt to derive the liberal ethos inductively, by generalizing from the products and manifestations which are open to our inspection. That attempt is the purpose of this book.
