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Liberalism

The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity

by Todd Gitlin,

Adapted from “From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left.” Originally appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and…

When you kick a liberal

by Garrison Keillor,

A post-election parable

Reaganomics with a human face

by Robert Lekachman,

“Traditional values”

by Christopher Lasch,

Left, right, and wrong

Poland’s best and brightest

by Lawrence Weschler,

Patient liberalism in sharp focus

The American conservatives

by John Lukacs,

Sex and the Democrats

by Arthur S. Levine,

Liberalism's new frontier

From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966

by John Fischer,

The liberal Carter

by Tom Bethell,

Wooing the recipient class

Flirting with guilt and tyranny

by Eric Larsen,

The need to act