The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

by Tammy Bruce (Published 2003, ISBN 0761516638)

Former president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW Tammy Bruce takes on leftists elites in The Death of Right and Wrong. As a feminist and gay activist, Bruce experienced first hand the methods and motives of those on the far left, people whom she believes have a vested interest in misrepresenting and compounding the misfortunes of those they claim to help. These leftist elites, she argues, are also advancing a dangerous philosophy of moral relativism, which prohibits people from making even the most basic value judgments. This moral relativism is then forced upon society through an education system devoted to indoctrination and a media that labels all impulses of decency as bigotry, oppression, or Puritanism.

Bruce's work is an easy read, and she make some powerful points in a concise manner. Bruce is not herself a "conservative" in the traditional sense, and this makes her work seem somewhat fresh. The book contains scattered vignettes of note: without Tammy Bruce, you might never have known that your tax dollars funded performance art that involved a woman shoving yams into her posterior and then defecating them into a bowl before offering them to the audience to eat.