AMERICAN CONSERVATISM

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1 Syllabus AMERICAN CONSERVATISM Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Political Science Academic year: 1 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew (students may speak English) Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Professor David Ricci Coordinator msricci@mscc.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: By appointment Teaching Staff: Prof David Ricci page 1 / 5

2 Course/Module description: Bi-weekly discussions, engaging both students and the course coordinator, mostly of original writings by American political and philosophical conservatives Course/Module aims: The aims of this course cannot be defined in terms appropriate to computerized analysis. It is intended as a humanistic tutorial. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: The learning outcomes of this course cannot be described in terms appropriate for computerized analysis. Therefore it assigns no numerical grades but only "pass" or "fail." Attendance requirements(%): All class meetings are required Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Intensive discussion of the required readings Course/Module Content: DISCUSSION TOPICS (with the relevant Bibliography items listed by #) 1. issues of rhetoric - #1, #2 2. Furniture of the mind - #3 3. The Cold War background - #4, #5 4. The conservative story - #6, #7, #8, #9 5. Marketplace fundamentalism - #10, #11, #12 6. Welfare - #13, #14, #15 7. Race - #16, #17 8. Families - #18, #19 9. Social vs. economic conservatives - #20, # The new class - #22, #23, # Science, disenchantment, stories - # The marketplace of ideas - #26, #27 Not in the Reader but recommended - Anthony Daniels, "A Taste for Wormwood and Gall," The New Criterion (November, 2010) #28, #29 page 2 / 5

3 14. The war in Iraq - # The Tea Party - #31 Required Reading: BIBLIGRAPHY 1. David Ricci, "Chapter One," Why Conservatives Tell Stories and Liberals Don't: Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the Right (Paradigm, 2010), pp Albert Hirschman, Rhetoric and Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1991, pp. ix-xi, David Ricci, "Chapter Two," Why Conservatives Tell Stories and Liberal Don't, pp Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (orig. 1944; Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957), pp Irving Kristol, "Civil Liberties, A Study in Confusion," Commentary Magazine (March, 1952), pp Barry Goldwater, "Acceptance Speech" [at the Republican National Convention] in Goldwater, Where I Stand (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), pp "Publisher's Statement" and "Credenda," National Review (November 19, 1955), pp Ed Gillespie and Bob Schellhas (eds.), Contract with America (New York Times Books, 1994), pp George W. Bush, "Second Inaugural Address," (January 20, 2005). 10. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962), pp Jude Wanniski, "Taxes, Revenues, and the 'Laffer Curve,'" Public Interest (Winter, 1978), pp Aaron Wildavsky, "Richer is Safer," Public Interest (Summer, 1980), pp Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, (New York: Basic Books, 1984), pp page 3 / 5

4 14. George Gilder, "Chapter 14," Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981), pp Charles Hobbs, The Welfare Industry (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1978), pp Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society (New York: Free Press, 1995), pp , Terry Eastland, Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice (New York: Basic Books, 1997), pp. 1-42, Jerry Falwell, The New American Family (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing, 1992), pp. 1-17, Rick Santorum, It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2005), pp Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 1976), pp Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 3rd ed. (orig., 1942; New York: Harper and Row, 1950), pp Irving Kristol, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (New York: Free Press, 1995), pp , essays on "Business and the 'New Class,'" and "Corporate Capitalism in America." 23. Jeane Kirkpatrick, "Politics and the New Class," in B. Bruce-Briggs (ed.), The New Class? (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1979), pp Midge Decter, "Letter to the Young (and to their parents)," in Mark Gerson (ed.), The Essential Neoconservative Reader (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp Max Weber, "Science as a Vocation" (1919), in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1942), pp Roger Kimball, "Mill, Stephen, and the Nature of Freedom," in Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball (eds.), The Betrayal of Liberalism (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1999), pp Gertrude Himmelfarb, "Chapter IV: One Very Simple Principle?" On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society (New York: page 4 / 5

5 Powered by TCPDF ( Knopf, 1994), pp David Ricci, "Chapter 7: The Rise of Think Tanks," The Transformation of American Politics (New Haven: Yale, 1993), pp Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (Washington, D.C.: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 2004), pp. 1-4, 57-68, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (San Francisco: Encounter, 2003), pp Dick Armey, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (New York: William Morrow, 2010), pp. 1-36, Additional Reading Material: None Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 100 % Project work 0 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: None page 5 / 5