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The Dilemma of Managerial Liberalism

The title of this book refers to the practice and ideology of contemporary Western societies, which, in Gottfried's view, bear little resemblance to historical liberalism and in many ways have its opposite. Where, after all, is the division and limitation of power, the protection of private property, and recognition of an inviolate private sphere where the state has no business? How can an order be "liberal," in which social planners reconstruct the human soul, or "democratic," in which government feels itself entitled to reconstitute a people it finds lacking? Nevertheless, what Gottfried describes is managerial liberalism, which has become the...