April 2010 Issue [Article] The vanishing liberal Download PDF Adjust Share How the left learned to be helpless by Kevin Baker, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century 2009- 20th century 21st century Barack Obama Civil rights movements Democracy Helplessness (Psychology) History Liberalism Military policy New Deal, 1933-1939 Politics and government Populism Progressivism (United States politics) Right and left (Political science) United States More from Kevin Baker You Say You Want a Revolution Morality is often reduced to choices, and imperfect choices at that. This is the human condition; to accept it and do the best we can is a brave thing, and… Which Side Are You On? On December 20, 2014, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley walked up to a parked patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, and fired… Things to Come On March 30, during one of the daily briefings on the COVID-19 outbreak that had so captured the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo uttered a sentence… Adjust Share