Books on Politics and Culture

In his politics and culture books, Garry addresses an array of contemporary social, legal and political issues. In Cultural Whiplash: The Unforeseen Consequences of America’s Crusade Against Racial Discrimination, Garry demonstrates how moral relativism and political interest groups have distorted the initial and laudable goals of the civil rights movement, thus plunging that movement into the kind of divisive politics that prevail today. And in An American Paradox, Garry dissects the hypocrisies of political correctness, exposing its intolerance and anti-liberty attitudes.

In Conservatism Redefined, which examines the future of American conservatism following the 2008 elections, Patrick Garry provides a succinct history of conservative principles and policies, along with an analysis of historical periods when conservatism deviated from its guiding principles. Garry revives those principles into an overarching ideological definition that can unify all the different strands of American conservatism. In doing so, he debunks the leftist charge that conservatism is concerned only with the rich and powerful. Contrasting his common-person conservatism with an elitist liberalism, Garry shows how conservative principles offer the best path to prosperity for the poor and immigrant.

Garry’s political commentary, appearing in numerous online news and political opinion websites, proposes new conservative approaches to problems like poverty, education and unemployment, as well as offering critiques of contemporary culture. But Garry doesn’t just explore conservative ideas through nonfiction books; indeed, he is one of the few living fiction writers whose novels fall within the conservative tradition. Because of this perspective, Garry’s novels are truly unique. And it is this uniqueness that may contribute to the unusually high and favorable attention given to them.

Patrick Garry’s The False Promise of Big Government, was released on October 23, 2017 by ISI Books.  The book cover is pictured below. For more information on this book, as well as reviews of the book, please locate it under the Books on Politics and Culture tab above.