Assumptions of the Tea Party Movement

David Warfield Brown teaches public management at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, USA, and is the author of several books including America’s Culture of Professionalism (2014) and The Real Change-Makers (2012). He has been a lawyer on Wall Street, chief-of-staff on Capitol Hill, state commissioner in New York, deputy mayor of New York City, public authority board member, Professor at Yale University, USA, and The New School, USA, and President of Blackburn College, USA. He is the ongoing coeditor of the Higher Education Exchange, an annual publication of the Kettering Foundation. His primary research interest is the social dimensions of problem solving.

• 1. Assumptions—Their Use and Abuse .- 2. Self-Reliance Above All .- 3. Politics as “Dirty Business”? .- 4. Free Enterprise as Unassailable? .- 5. The Earth as Man’s Possession? .- 6. The Native-Born as Coming First? .- 7. Reconsidering Assumptions.