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The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism

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Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama all called themselves liberals, but their ideas and policies differed greatly. In a free online course, “The American Left,” Hillsdale College Professor Kevin Slack explains the distinctions between these “liberal” politicians and what these changes mean for Americans today.

The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism

Discover the origins and key ideas of the modern American left—enroll in our free online course today!

American politics has been transformed in recent years as large portions of the federal bureaucracy, military, the media, and corporate America have embraced the ideas of the 1960s radical Left.

This transformation has brought ideas like transgenderism, identity politics, and global government—which were formerly relegated to the fringes of academia—into the mainstream of American public life. The result of this turn can be seen in the radical gender ideology pushed in our nation’s classrooms, the lawlessness at our border and in many of our cities, and the economic policies that continue to hollow out the American middle class.

In this course, you’ll discover:

• The differences between midcentury liberals and the radicals who revolted against them.
• How post-sixties radicals gained power in government bureaucracies and educational institutions.
• The principles of neoliberalism that arose in the late 1970s and how these ideas changed the morality and economy of America.
• The reasons America’s political and business elite embraced the woke ideology of the Left during Barack Obama’s second term.

Our free online course, “The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism,” moves beyond a superficial account of American politics in order to provide an in-depth explanation of the philosophical origins of America’s radical movements and how they have overtaken America’s institutions.

These lessons are designed to explain the nature and direction of politics today and to provide a path for a return to republican government in America.

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