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"Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism," Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times." ...
For the most part, “Liberalism Against Itself” is ambivalent about its cast of characters. Moyn musters grudging respect for everyone except Popper, whose abrupt shift from thoughtful ...
When the New York Times columnist told the Daily Show host about out-of-control regulations ruining a Biden administration rural broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the ...
Liberalism is under siege. It is not just a problem for America’s Democratic Party, which once again may face either losing an election to Donald Trump or claiming victory with a bare majority.
There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition of natural rights.
This article appears in the May 15/22, 2023 issue.. Illustration by Victor Juhasz. Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. vowed not to read another book about liberalism until his mother wrote one.
Liberalism has been a pretty solid house, but we’ve gotten behind on the maintenance, and many of those with the most tools to hand are chucking them in the trash. Progressive parochialism.
Trilling began to mobilize Freud to reform liberalism in this way well before World War II, but he repeated these arguments over the next decade and throughout The Liberal Imagination, in which the ...
And liberalism has always had a difficulty with the nationalism question because it has a theory of the state. It has a theory of the good life. It doesn’t have a clear theory of membership.
Media Former Canadian Liberal leader says liberalism went astray when they lost their ‘bulls--- detectors' 'We didn’t seem to notice that nonelite White people were threatened, even betrayed ...
The year is 1906. With the Conservatives failing to implement social reforms, people were desperate for change. Life under the Conservative government had significantly worsened – Booth’s study found ...
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...