Issue #31, Winter 2014

Paine and Burke Now

Our very categories of “left” and “right” basically originated around these two towering men. But are they still relevant today?

Sheri Berman

Issue #29, Summer 2013

Dead Center

Obama’s electoral wins and our shifting demographics portend a bright Democratic future. So why do centrists insist on fighting battles long won?

Jordan Michael Smith

Issue #25, Summer 2012

We Might Overcome

The stories of liberalism and radicalism are replete with great triumphs—and regular reminders of why the fight for change can be so exhausting.

Eric Rauchway

Issue #19, Winter 2011

The “More What, Less How” Government

First Principles: The Role of Government

Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer

Issue #18, Fall 2010

Advise and Dissent

History shows that dissent within the progressive ranks has been vital to advancing the liberal agenda. A response to Michael Tomasky.

David Dayen

Issue #17, Summer 2010

Toward an i-Welfare State

When will all the benefits of e-commerce come to e-government? A response to the previous issue’s symposium on liberalism.

James P. Pinkerton

Issue #16, Spring 2010

Missing the Movement

Michael Walzer

Issue #16, Spring 2010

Obama and Civic Idealism

Michael Sandel

Issue #16, Spring 2010

A Time of Limits

William Galston

Issue #16, Spring 2010

What Happened to Women?

Instead of moving to the center, liberalism should try embracing people who are actually liberals—starting with women.

Katha Pollitt

Issue #16, Spring 2010

Liberalism, Unwilling and Unable

Brad Carson

Issue #16, Spring 2010

DMV Liberalism

Joe Klein

Issue #15, Winter 2010

The Courage of Our Contradictions

A new liberalism must reflect not only on our permanent beliefs, but also on many Americans’ reservations about them. A response to E.J. Dionne, Jr.

William Galston

Issue #14, Fall 2009

Liberalism Lost and Found

Claiming the future means embracing the full complications of the past.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Issue #13, Summer 2009

The Values That Didn’t Fail

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of communism serves as a reminder that liberalism makes the right kind of “regime change” possible.

Michael Tomasky

Issue #11, Winter 2009

Left Is Right

Bernard Henri-Levy may criticize the Left, but it is worth saving. A response to Nick Cohen.

Todd Gitlin

Issue #10, Fall 2008

Left Out

What the downfall of the European Left can teach American liberals.

Nick Cohen

Issue #7, Winter 2008

The Myths of McGovern

Thirty-five years later, what the 1972 campaign can—and can’t—teach liberals today.

Rick Perlstein

Issue #6, Fall 2007

Not Left for Dead

Why red scare attacks on liberalism are red herrings. A response to Fred Siegel.

Paul Starr

Issue #5, Summer 2007

Blinded by the Left

Liberals are at their best when they recognize the difference between themselves and radicalism. Too often in American history, they haven’t.

Fred Siegel