Ordering America

About the Book

Ordering America, painting a felicitous portrait of Western civilization, shows that its defining ideals--rooted in man´s common human nature, a perception newly substantiated by modern evolutionary psychology--were best fulfilled by realization of the American founding order. Twentieth-century progressivism and postmodern multiculturalism detoured America down the way of social constructionism--human nature and equality are produced by culture and the state, through groups. The book sets a course to revive the Western ideals and return to an opportune center-right American order, applying latest scientific insights and restoring individual responsibility and reciprocity under more limited, still energetic government befitting our century.

About the Author

The Honorable William H. Young was a presidential appointee in the first Bush administration, where he made major contributions to ending the cold war and enabling future economic growth while avoiding global warming. He has been an officer and director of large corporations and dealt extensively with public policy. A lifelong student of social, political, and humanistic ideas and their history, he uniquely combines the perspectives of diverse, high-level experience with the views of eminent thinkers in various fields to achieve the book’s broad and persuasive coverage of interrelated national issues in governance, business, and environmentalism.