Part I

Development of the contemporary middle ground

Note: D&D = Love, ed., Dogmas and Dreams

Week 1

Aug.28

Introduction to the course and to each other

Week 2

Sept.4

Classical liberalism vs. the old, authoritarian regime

Heywood, pp.1-4 and 23-53 (read all of Chapter 1 if you have time); D&D, pp. 17-28 (Locke), pp. 57-66 (Federalist Papers), 86-108 (Friedman); a bit more from Locke online.

Week 3

Sept.11

From classical to modern liberalism

Heywood, pp.53-63, 230-233, 242-245; D&D, pp.29-40 (more of Mill if you have time), 67-85 (Green, F. D. Roosevelt), 109-122 (Kramnick), 489-496 (Friedan) Online: Franklin D. Roosevelt on an economic bill of rights; Tawney on equality of opportunity, the relationship between equality and liberty, and the need for some degree of "communal provision and collective control" in economic affairs

Week 4

Sept.18

Traditional conservatism

Heywood, pp.65-86; D&D, pp.129-164 (Oakeshott, Burke) Online:  Burke on the need for an aristocracy

Week 5

Sept.25

From traditional to modern conservatism

Heywood, pp.86-98 and pp.241-242; D&D, pp.165-206 (Kristol, Schlafly, Bloom) Online Robert Bork on the Culture War; A speech by Pat Robertson; The statement of 'core values' from Pat Buchanan's organization, "The American Cause" 

First exam handed out.

Part II

Challenges from left, right and elsewhere

Week 6

Oct.2

Early socialism and the ideas of Karl Marx

Heywood, pp. 99-126; D&D, pp.213-313 (Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lenin)

Week 7

Oct.9

Contemporary democratic socialism

Heywood, pp.126-142 and 245-247; D&D, pp.314-345 (Bernstein, Hayden and Flacks) and 497-516 (Hartmann); Online:  Hayek on the impossibility of central planning;  Albert and Hahnel on 'Participatory Economics ; Roemer on combining socialism with markets (PDF - feel free to skip the excessively technical discussion of 'feasibility models' that runs from page 14 to page 24, but do read the summary, which starts on page 24.)

Links to lots more material on socialism

First Exam Due

Week 8

Oct.16

Anarchism

Heywood, Chapter 6; D&D, Part 4 (pp.347-399 – Goldman, Thoreau, Kropotkin, Bakunin;) Online:  Engels on Authority

Week 9

Oct.23

Fascism

Heywood, Chapter 7; D&D, Part 5 (pp.401-470 – Mussolini, Hitler, Macdonald, Moser); online articles about fascist tendencies in the US (Hartman, Leiter, Lohr)

Week 10

Oct.30

Feminism

Heywood, Chapter 8; D&D, pp.517-568 (Wittig, Lorde, Anzaldua, Mohanty)

Week 11

Nov.6

Environmentalism

Heywood, Chapter 9; D&D, Part 7 (pp.569-639 – Emerson, Carson , Gore, Kelly, Bookchin and Forman, Shiva)

Week 12

Nov.13

Nationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism

Heywood, Chapter 5; D&D, pp.647-672 (Mazzini, Anderson, Ohmae)

Week 13-

Nov.20

Fundamentalism, modernity, globalization

Heywood, Chapter 10; D&D, pp.673-737 (Nyang, Said, Huntington , Barber, Dallmayr); Online:  “Thanks For Nothing” by Joseph Stiglitz; "Globalization: Stiglitz Case" by Benjamin Friedman;  “Do As We Say, Not As We Do” by Jack Beatty

Week 14

Dec.4

Multiculturalism

Heywood, Chapter 11; Online:  Bikhu Parekh, “Equality in a Multicultural Society,” David Kupelian, "Multicultural Madness," and Amartya Sen, “The Uses and Abuses of Multiculturalism”

Week 15

Dec.11

Wrap up