Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America - Softcover

James Ostrowski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974925381 ISBN 13: 9780974925387

Publisher: Cazenovia Books, 2014

Synopsis

America is dying from an idea she only dimly understands, so-called "progressivism."  So, Jim Ostrowski, drawing on 45 years in politics, law and the Liberty Movement, deconstructs and demolishes the idea that has dominated American life for longer than any of us has been alive.  He lays the hidden premises of progressivism bare for all to see and then shows how they have led to the destructive policies that are dragging America down.  Ostrowski exposes the mental force field progressives carry around that protects them from having to answer for their multitude of policy failures.  He also deconstructs progressivism's chief opponent for the last fifty years, conservatism and its marquis strategy, constitutionalism.  These approaches have failed and crowded out progressivism's only viable adversary, true liberalism: the proposition that human beings have the natural right to do as they wish with what they own.  The book not only diagnoses what is wrong with America but proposes numerous and detailed strategies and tactics for what individual Americans can do right now to battle progressivism.  LibertyMovement.org will be the vehicle for promoting and coordinating those efforts.

About this title

About the Author

James Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer and author from Buffalo, New York. He graduated from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in 1975 and obtained a degree in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1983. In law school, he was writing assistant to Dean David G. Trager, later a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. He was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and the International Law Moot Court Team. He served as vice-chairman of the law reform committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (1986-88) and wrote two widely quoted reports critical of the law enforcement approach to the drug problem. He was chair of the human rights committee, Erie County Bar Association (1997-1999). He has written a number of scholarly articles on the law on subjects ranging from drug policy to the commerce clause of the constitution. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Buffalo News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Legislative Gazette. His policy studies have been published by the Hoover Institution, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. His articles have been used as course materials at numerous colleges including Brown, Rutgers and Stanford. He is the author of Political Class Dismissed (2004), Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids (2009) and Direct Citizen Action (2010). Presently, he is an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a columnist for LewRockwell.com. He and his wife Amy live in North Buffalo with their two children, Anna and Will. He is a long-time youth baseball and basketball coach.

Review

"One of Ostrowski's greatest strengths as a writer is that his work is accessible to the average reader. . . . He does a great job at breaking down what would normally be an involved subject into easily digestible pieces. . . . But don't think this is a dry read overloaded with facts and statistics that'll put you to sleep. Far from it, Ostrowski delivers one classic line after another which you'll be chuckling about long after you put the book down."--Patrick Krey, LewRockwell.com

"An important new book. Ostrowski explains what progressivism is and then demolishes it. His book is going to have an impact. Progressivism is indeed the idea destroying America. Ostrowski's book explains the why and how of it and what can be done about it."--Robert Wenzel, EconomicPolicyJournal.com

"Author James Ostrowski has taken a sledgehammer to the ideas of Progressivism. Ostrowski thoroughly cuts through the multitude of progressivism's branches, and most importantly strikes hard at the root.  Progressivism has to be buried. Arm yourself intellectually with Ostrowski's fantastic book, and help to get the ideas of Liberty back in the position of dominance. The quality of our lives, as well as the lives of those yet come, literally depend upon it."
--Chris Rossini, TargetLiberty.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Cazenovia Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0974925381
• ISBN 13: 9780974925387
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226