Book Review: The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camps Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s

Abstract

In the end, I would argue that one’s preference for McManus’s approach to liberalism over liberal egalitarianism, broadly understood, hinges on whether one thinks the workplace, the family, and other private institutions require democratizing (a process which, as mentioned above, remains somewhat opaque.) This reader would be willing to consider the workplace, but thinks that democratizing the rest (to the extent that this entails top-down state-sanctioned action) may well do more harm than good. Thus, I do not yet see a reason to shift allegiances. And yet, while I remain to be convinced, I cannot deny that McManus’s ambitious book deserves to be widely read and discussed.