{"product_id":"power-and-purity-mark-t-mitchell-9781684510115","title":"Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America's Social Justice Warriors","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Marriage Made in Hell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere did they come from, these furiously self-righteous \"social justice warriors\"? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe growing radicalism and intolerance on the American left is the result of the strange union of Nietzsche's \"will to power\" and a secularized Puritan moralism. In this penetrating study, Mark T. Mitchell explains how this marriage made in hell gave birth to a powerful and destructive political and social movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving declared that \"God is dead,\" Friedrich Nietzsche identified the \"will to power\" as the fundamental force of human life. There is no good or evil in a Nietzschean world--only the interests of the strong. Reason and the common good have no place there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Puritan, by contrast, is morally rigorous, zealous to promote virtue and punish vice. America's Puritan tradition, now thoroughly de-Christianized, has been reduced to a self-righteous moral absolutism that focuses on the faults of others, intent on avenging the sins of society, institutions, and the past in pursuit of the secularized ideals of equality, diversity, and social justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Nietzsche's ideas have permeated our culture, a new generation of radicals has embraced the rhetoric and tactics of the will to power. But the strength of America's residual Puritanism keeps them only half-baked Nietzscheans. More Christian than they care to admit, they cling to a moralism that Nietzsche would despise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe incoherence of their mixed creed dooms social justice warriors to perpetual frustration. Their identity politics generates ever more radical demands that can never be satisfied, further fracturing a society in desperate need of a unifying myth. We seem to be left with only two options, Mitchell concludes--Nietzsche or Christ, the will to power or the will to truth. The choice is bracingly simple.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark T. Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684510112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684510115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regnery Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Mark T. Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088701796607,"sku":"9781684510115","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b66034ba-645c-4048-b901-b91a156e6423.jpg?v=1769106174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-and-purity-mark-t-mitchell-9781684510115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}