liberalism

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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.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  1-14-17
  

  Timothy Garton Ash says liberalism failed in 2016 because it had succeeded

  "Its success has been so hegemonic for so long it’s not surprising there’s a reaction against it."

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  10-14-16
  

  Liberalism is neither relative nor absolute – it just works

  by Max Hayward

  Liberalism isn’t a set of fixed principles, it’s a social technology.

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• 11-6-16
  

  What Charles Dickens’s Britain Has to Do with the 2016 Election

  by John Broich

  Hint: That was the birthplace of classic liberalism.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  7-5-16
  

  Everyone was a liberal

  by Lawrence Glickman

  On the Left, ‘neoliberal’ is an epithet but, not long ago, everyone wanted to be liberal. Will anyone claim liberalism?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-26-16
  

  What's wrong with our politics? What Thomas Frank & Steve Fraser think.

  by Beverly Gage

  In a book review, Beverly Gage critiques two books:  Thomas Frank's "Listen Liberal" and Steve Fraser's "The Limousine Liberal."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-24-16
  

  Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?

  by Michael Kazin

  The Nation asked 4 historians for a response to this question. This is Michael Kazin's.

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• 1-4-15
  

  Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  We may be about to find out. 

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• What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

  by Rick Perlstein

  How the Democrats turned right and lost America. 

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• 1-4-15
  

  Why in the 1930s Did the U.S. Move Left and in the 1970s Move Right? (Video)

  by Meg Jacobs

  Conservatism survived Watergate, but liberalism struggled.

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• 1-4-15
  

  What Happened to Second Wave Feminism? (Video)

  by Alice Kessler-Harris

  Women won the battle, but lost the war, strengthening capitalism and hierarchy.

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• 10-17-14
  

  Review of Edmund Fawcett’s “Liberalism: The Life of an Idea”

  by Walter G. Moss

  Although the history of ideas or intellectual history sometimes appeals only to a small reading audience, Fawcett’s book should have a broader readership.

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• SOURCE: Huff Post
  4-13-15
  

  FDR, LBJ and BHO: Does Obama Measure Up?

  by Ian Reifowitz

  Has Obama failed to attract white working class voters?

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• 4-10-14
  

  Why Obama's Not Accomplishing as Much as LBJ (Interview)

  by Julian Zelizer

  LBJ didn't succeed in passing legislation through Congress just because he knew how to get things done. 

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• 4-10-14
  

  Americans Turned Against Taxes Because Taxes Were Unfair (Interview)

  by Joshua Mound

  How Woody Allen helped ignite the revolt against taxes.