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Summary: Bork logically id's America's worst danger as liberalism
Review: Slouching Towards Gomorrah provides an excellent synopsis of America's most pressing danger: radical liberalism. By using an argument grounded firmly in logic and reason, Bork presents his facts straightforwardly and in a consistent manner. His problem: liberalism. His solution: action. I would recommmend this book to be added to the shelves of any concerned American, young or old, who recognizes the impending dangers of radical liberalism and egalitarianism in our society
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Summary: Bork's book is based on ideology, not thorough research.
Review: I am a conservative myself, and hoped that Bork's latest offering would provide some keen insights into what truly caused the perceived "moral breakdown" of society. Instead, Bork gives a hollow diatribe against everything from the Supreme Court to popular music. As an observer of our court system, Bork's findings on the judiciary do have some merit. But his railings against modern music, for example, are baseless. Who's to say, for example, that George Gershwin has more musicianship than all current songwriters? I recently heard Bork refer to Marilyn Manson as "gangster rap," proving that his knowledge of basic popular culture is quite lacking
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Summary: Liberal ears are burning
Review: This book could serve as a conservative bible, as Bork does not stray from a single traditional conservative stance on the major issues today. He presents thought provoking arguments for the less popular conservative viewpoints on censorship, abortion and religion. His most questionable argument for censorship is the conclusion that "unconstrained human nature will seek degeneracy often enough to create a disorderly, hedonistic, and dangerous society." This is only true when "uneducated" is thrown into the mix. One can only agree, however, that a society that upholds the values presented in this book (the society we once were) is far more desireable than the crime ridden, dumbed down, welfare infested, over regulated and over taxed society that liberal thinking has created
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Summary: Logic? Reason? Argument? Where???!
Review: This book is an ideological rant. I read it preparing for a reasoned argument about the decline of morality, and instead got some incredibly over-the-top ranting about liberals, the Supreme Court, the Constitution, etc.
I've heard all this before, from Bill Bennett, from Pat Buchanan, from Ronald Reagan. I EXPECT them to confuse ideology with evidence, but I expected much, much better from a judge.
Alas, Bork does not deliver the goods at all. He rarely makes any reference to evidence, and when he does he refuses to address conflicting evidence. He doesn't start from first principles and then build a case from there. I want to know what this man learned in law school. He certainly didn't learn how to build an argument.
I consider myself a pragmatist politically. Unless someone can clearly explain to me, with evidence to back it up, why individual liberty of the sort that he decries in the book (homosexuality, abortion, odd sexual practices, etc.) is damaging to our nation, I will continue to believe that it's not any of my or his business.
Simply saying "homosexuality is destructive to the family" does not make it so. HOW is it destructive? By what mechanism does the existence of homosexuals destroy the fabric of the nation? They aren't destroying MY family, bub.
I highly recommend "John Marshall: Definer of a Nation" for a really GOOD and thought-provoking book about the Supreme Court, and many of these issues
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Summary: A must read non-fiction.
Review: Bork's account of every aspect of modern liberalism is
intelligent, and gets to the point on every line. Throughout the
book he describes how liberalism is eroding the foundations
of the American society. The social-economical implications
of all this are tragic, and Bork makes that very clear. Bork
may be pessimistic, but he is probably right.
An excellent non-fiction. Do not miss it.
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Summary: A must for concerned citizens
Review: Robert Bork hits the nail on the head. Bork comes only inches shy of an outright accusation that the United States Supreme Court has usurped control of the United States government.
From the 1960's hippie movement, Bork traces the rise of modern facism (the modern liberal movement) straight to the steps of the Supreme Court.
Anyone who thinks the American legal system needs an overhaul needs to read this book before making suggestions for desirable change.
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Summary: Bork brings home the bacon.
Review: This book will send radical liberals into convulsions, so I suggest that they read it heartily!
All humor aside, Judge Bork does a sharp shooter's job of focusing on issues such as abortion rights, the rise of crime and illegitamacy, sexual expressionism and pop culture and much more.
I found it refreshing to find someone of Judge Bork's stature finally taking up the banner of reasonable censorship and doing so unappologetically.
This book will do wonders for apathethic conservatives who are in need of a clear boost to action.
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Summary: Hypocrisy thy name is Bork
Review: What a frightening and hypocritical diatribe. It's almost
inconceivable that this hateful bigot, who is somewhere
to the right of Hitler, almost made it to the Supreme
Court.
What's particularly amusing is the way he whines about
the government being too big, and then proceeds to argue
for giving it even *more* power to regulate the
most private and personal aspects of our lives: more
power to ban abortion, more power to censor unpopular
speech, more power to criminalize private sexual
behavior, more power to legislate gender roles, more
power to legislate morality, more power to impose the
majority religion on minorities, and, via his ludicrous
proposal to allow the legislature to trump the Supreme
Court, more power to engage in unrestricted mob rule
with absolutely no protections for the rights of
minorities!
I guess "big government" is just swell when the coercive
power of the state is used in ways Robert Bork personally
approves of. Thank you, no.
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Summary: Superb, logical analysis of our generation
Review: A superb, logical, fact based analysis of our generation, this book is based on logical arguments difficult to refute. Almost encyclopedic in his knowledge, Bork traces moderate liberalism through the 200 year history of USA, culminating in the 1960's in a modern, hedonistic perversion of liberalism without reason gone amok. With dry wit, his many anecdotes from a lifetime in the public eye, mesmerize. Most compelling are his iron clad logical arguments, which disarm even the most liberal reader, causing the reader to contemplate his or her most passionately held views
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Summary: Bork's incisive explication of our society's decline.
Review: "I use to call him 'Dork'," said a Liberal friend of mine recently. I patiently replied, "Ha, ha. I used to call him 'Railroaded'." He knew exactly what I was talking about--the 1987 confirmation hearing of Robert Bork before the Senate Judiary Committee. This confirmation hearing was very instructive to many of us--if you actually think that the Constitution of the United States has anything to do with Constitutional Law, don't bother looking for a job on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here in Slouching Towards Gomorrah Bork, in taking some well-earned and enlightening revenge, continues the incisive and dead-on analysis of his subject which he exhibited in The Tempting of America, his book about Constitutional Law, judicial activism, and the Court's hijacking of our country.
Bork's thesis here is this: Modern America has been infected and weakened by two main currents embraced and perpetuated by Liberalism, (1) radical egalitarianism and (2) radical individualism. Interestingly, he doesn't just place the locus embryonicus for these intellectual and cultural viruses in the 1960s, although he certainly traces their major gestation period to that decade. Rather, Bork points out the historical and fairly old occurences of these maladies. He gets to the very seeds of these currents which germinate and blossom on the scene in the early 1960s.
Well, the radical egalitarianism that Bork identifies perfectly is not an egalitarianism which stems from Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and Lincoln, but the egalitarianism that says that everybody, darn it, is going to be equal, or else. People should not be allowed to make too much money, or own too many things, or be too successful in this world. Hence this brand of equality leads, necessarily and logically, to government coercion, meddling, and refereeing. Further, then, argues Bork, this leads to an expanding Federal Government which, with the ample help of the activists courts, has taken over almost every meaningful aspect of our lives in the effort to level everyone in the name of equality and justice.
Radical individualism, again to be distinguished from generic individualism, also to be found in our formational and fundamental documents, is the kind that recognizes no standards in any area of personal behavior, except, of course, where the government deems that equality is more important. It is this radical individualism that will accept no standards, except those thought up, or felt, by the individual, that wants government out of peoples' business. It is the acceptance, actually, of nihilism--that cuddly ol' deathwish germinated in Nietzsche's brain about a century ago. This nihilism has led to the problems of divorce, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, pornography, and just about any other malady that continues to tear the fabric of this country apart.
Bork certainly presents us with an analysis of our cutlural and intellectual diseases that must make his detractors, and his admirers, think long and hard about our practices, ideas, and assumptions. The long road to reform has to start with the proper intellectual framework. Once this is accented to it will be a matter of will and determination to ensure that we "leap away from Gomorrah."
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