It’s an easy kind of religion that finds evil only in its opponents; a much better religion helps us see where we ourselves fall short.
Month: December 2002
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Foreign policy for liberals.
Liberalism has been weakened not by some vast right-wing conspiracy, but by a loss of confidence in liberal ideas.
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Who is for human rights?
Tyranny cannot effectively be challenged, nor can democracy be extended in the world, without American leadership.
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Liberalism’s Iraq dilemma.
George Packer, author of the most compelling book I’ve read recently on American political history, Blood of the Liberals, knows what it means to be a committed but self-questioning liberal. In this week’s New York Times Magazine, he asks many of the most influential liberal intellectuals why they are not visible in the emerging antiwar […]