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Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. His latest book is Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
The cult of the higher judiciary had its limits long before the left failed to block Kavanaugh. Now the only progressive move is to reclaim democracy.
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
On Larry Siedentrop's Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
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