A Crisis For Our Times  Dear NR Friend, Our own dear pal, David Bahnsen, who writes frequently and powerfully for National Review (and who regularly shares his great expertise about our financial markets on Fox Business and CNBC, surely you've seen him), is having an excellent week celebrating the terrific response to his new book, Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It. You can order it from Amazon here. And you can (should) visit the book's exclusive website to see more of what I am about to share. About that: Plenty of big guns have read Crisis of Responsibility and are so genuinely taken with it that they are urging you to do the same. Honestly, there are dozens of thoughtful conservatives who are high-fiving David and arguing persuasively about the real importance this book. Let me share these few of the many: Rich Lowry: "David Bahnsen has written a bracing and incisive critique of our increasingly pervasive culture of victimization. He makes a compelling case that it's still within our power, and absolutely necessary, that we help ourselves. You will enjoy and profit from this book." Victor David Hanson: "David Bahnsen outlines cultural, economic, and political remedies for an ailing America of all classes. His often autobiographical message is that our fate still rests in our own hands. We are not pawns of global determinism, but with a few basic collective reforms and a return to individual self-reliance instead of our current self-obsessions, we can rebuild a prosperous, fair, and dynamic American culture and civilization. An outsider/insider message of hope and renewal that is now as rare as it is needed." Ben Shapiro: "One more thing that I like, there's a good book out by David Bahnsen - it's called Crisis of Responsibility. The book is essentially a treatise on why it is that Americans are avoiding their problems by pointing at one another and trying to cast responsibility for mistakes on one another. If we could get rid of that capacity to blame one another and take some responsibility for ourselves, we'd do a lot better in life. Check it out!" Matthew Continetti: "I found Crisis of Responsibility a remarkable and urgent synthesis of the economic, social, and cultural afflictions of modern America. But I was also heartened by the commitment to solving these problems through common sense and a renewal of individual responsibility. I hope this book finds a large and appreciative audience. It deserves to." Amity Shlaes: "Markets are living moral creatures, as David Bahnsen notes. The world has been waiting for someone from finance to address the moral aspect of the 2008 crisis. Dave 'Moral Hazard' Bahnsen delivers it." Jonah Goldberg: "Only when the great mass of people reawaken to their civic duties will they be able to wrest control of America from an elite that has shown its failure to lead again and again. David Bahnsen's new book is the first step along this important path." Let me suggest you listen to David discuss Crisis: You'll find a bunch of interviews (with Larry Kudlow, Lars Larson, and others) here. But let me recommend one in particular: with NR's Seattle BFF, the great Kirby Wilbur, who shares his wisdom daily from KVI-570AM in Seattle. Says Kirby: "This book actually made me think . . . it's a must-read." True! Listen to his terrific conversation with david (it starts at about 29:00) right here. We all want out of this victimization mentality (don't we? I do!) that is overwhelming America and Americans of all demographics, of all ideologies. In Crisis of Responsibility – very readable, short (170 pages), and bursting with common sense and wisdom – David Bahnsen describes the problem . . . and, the way out. There is a cure. Order Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It from Amazon here. You can also order Crisis from Barnes & Noble here. Best, Jack Fowler
Vice President, National Review | 
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