Reviews of and by the author of “Terror and Liberalism.”
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Mother Jones review.
George Packer identifies four habits of the besieged mind, coping strategies that also keep us from thinking clearly.
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Pile on.
A good case for ignoring Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and their ilk.
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Paul Berman watch.
“As a general analysis of the various enemies of liberalism, and what ties them together, [‘Terror and Liberalism’] is superb.”
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New on the bookshelf.
“It is liberal states—states that have enshrined the constitutional protection of liberties—that don’t go to war with one another.”
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Doomed to choose.
“Some among the Great Goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth.”
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The radical center.
The difference between radicalism and extremism.
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Change of plans.
Todd Gitlin explains the “inauspicious paradox of the late ’60s: as the war became less popular, so did the antiwar movement.”
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Liberalism divided.
“So great has been the tension between the general and the specialized forms of liberalism that some people have rightly asserted that the strategies of progressive liberalism are in fact the opposite of laissez-faire liberalism.”
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Focus on the frame.
“Reliance on frames and paradigms and whatnot is not some kind of failure to be sufficiently open-minded, it’s a precondition of any sort of attempt to understand the world.”