liberalism

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/22/2020
  

  Burn it All Down: A Growing Number of Liberal Laywers Want More than Court Packing

  Liberals in the legal profession and legal academia have begun to grapple with the idea that the courts serve power as much as justice, and norms of collegiality are part of the problem. Are they prepared to embrace a more confrontational and openly political idea of the law? 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/20/2020
  

  "The Atlantic" and the Limits of Reasonableness

  A new collection of writing from the venerable magazine highlights the struggles of rational argument and civil discourse in the age of Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/8/2020
  

  Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was (Review)

  A review of Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" argues that the author focuses on the role of nostalgia and personality in driving authoritarianism and breaking up the center-right coalition, but ignores the fact that that the center failed to deliver an improved standard of living to the broad public. 

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• 9/6/2020
  

  A Coup of "Clerqs"?: Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Anne Applebaum's new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/24/2020
  

  The Guardians: Does "The Resistance" Actually Want More Democracy, or Less?

  by Samuel Moyn

  Samuel Moyn warns that a leading Never Trump legal scholar is less concerned with how Trump might harm minorities than with how Trump might harm the image of rule by elites. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  James Madison’s Last Stand: Are We Witnessing the End of Liberal Democracy?

  by Richard Matthews

  The Trump presidency is a stern test of James Madison's design for a government that could govern without becoming tyrannical. The people and the ballot may be the last of Madison's checks and balances left. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Free Speech and Civic Virtue between "Fake News" and "Wokeness"

  by Campbell F. Scribner

  Left critics of the recent "Harper's Magazine" open letter on free speech and open debate make some claims that are narrowly meritorious. But they don't address the value of speech as a way of building the collective citizenship necessary for democracy. In this respect, the signers are correct.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Will White Liberals Keep Faith With This Historical Moment?

  by Elwood Watson

  White liberal allies to today's Black protest movements must dig in for the long haul and remember the words of Audre Lorde: "The war against dehumanization is ceaseless." 

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• Madison’s Sorrow Goes Beyond Pompeo's Dinners

  by Kevin C. O'Leary

  We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/10/11
  

  Joe Biden Personifies Democratic Party Failures Since the Cold War

  by Michael Brenes

  The Democratic Party needs to escape the shadow of anti-communism and embrace economic and racial justice.

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• 1/12/20
  

  A New History of American Liberalism

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  Liberals looking for an enlightening but sobering account of their movement's history should read James Traub. 

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• 1/12/20
  

  Why The West Is Losing The Fight For Democracy

  by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

  We once had trouble imagining a future that is not essentially democratic and capitalist. That is not the way we think today. Most of us now have trouble imagining a future, even in the West, that remains securely democratic and liberal.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Politics
  August 4, 2019
  

  Fukuyama's 'The End of History?' -- 30 Years Later

  by Peter Berkowitz

  The current state of classical liberalism in America.

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• SOURCE: FDR Foundation
  Accessed 5/15/19
  

  The End of History? FDR, Trump and the Fake Past

  by Cynthia Koch

  Trump is thinking more about history than we imagine and he is doing so in a way very different from former presidents.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/16/19
  

  "The End of History" and Francis Fukuyama's Shrinking Idea

  by Alan Wolfe

  He famously hailed the triumph of liberal democracy. Now, he struggles to see a future for it. 

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• SOURCE: Facebook
  6-4-18
  

  How business broke the post-war consensus and gave us Movement Conservatism

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Coming out of the Depression and World War II, there was not a lot of daylight in America between conservatives and liberals.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-1-18
  

  How the Kerner Commission unmade American liberalism

  by Steven M. Gillon

  Instead of revitalizing the Democratic coalition, the commission's report exposed the fractures in American society.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  2-16-18
  

  Liberalism After Liberalism

  by Win McCormack

  The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure

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• SOURCE: The Weekly Standard
  10-27-17 (accessed)
  

  Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: Liberalism's Historian

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  The dual careers of JFK's chronicler.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-11-17
  

  The Liberal Crackup

  by Mark Lilla

  Liberals should reject the divisive, zero-sum politics of identity and find their way back to a unifying vision of the common good.