Fred Siegel > Quotes

“turns out that feminists don’t want equality. What they want is power and the privilege to define ambiguous situations that comes with it.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“Academics, think-tank executives, scientists, and high-level bureaucrats, as well as well-educated managers of major companies and their technical staff, are naturally attracted to the idea of a society ruled by professional experts with “enlightened” values—that is, by people much like themselves.10 This”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“Croly’s vision was intended to transcend politics and take on the character of a spiritual mission.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“H. G. Wells envisioned an “emergent class of capable men” who could take upon themselves the responsibility of “controlling and restricting very greatly” the “non-functional masses.” Wells predicted that this new elite would replace democracy with “a higher organism,” which he called “the New Republic.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“the Baltic states (Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine),”
― Fred Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class

“Orwell was right. It was Wells who made it respectable, even before World War I, for liberals in England and America to demean their own native democratic culture in the name of an imagined antidemocratic World State. And it was Wells, with his stature as the prophet of the future, who taught upper-middle-class liberals that they were entitled to govern in the name of social evolution. *”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“despite the spreading of mass education, cognitive skills now seem to be weakening. Many employers, at least in the United States, experience difficulty finding workers capable of having a serious conversation, with over sixty percent of applicants lacking basic social skills.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“schooling meant that schools had “become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“The idea of an anointed elite leading a society of compliant followers was also notable in the rise of Bolshevism, Fascism, and National Socialism.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“Until the 1960s, liberals understood themselves to be devotees of a rationality that allowed individuals to question authority on the basis of empirical and historical argumentation.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

“the dole replaced the former reliance on hard work and self-betterment that had led earlier generations to improve their lot.”
― Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump