Samuel Moyn
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.
To turn majoritarian dreams into reality, we must work with elites.
Samuel Moyn responds to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”
What Happened to Liberalism?
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Liberalism in Mourning
Lionel Trilling exemplifies the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
Resisting the Juristocracy
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.
Mark Lilla and the Crisis of Liberalism
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
