“Fundamentalism is the real enemy of progress, and that includes both fundamentalist take-no-prisoners conservatives as well as fundamentalist America-is-a-sink-of-corruption lefties.”
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Category: Liberalism
The last time that liberalism confronted a radicalized philosophical challenge, that threat emerged from within Western civilization. Unitarians responded with not one but two major theological renewal movements.
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War of ideas.
Paul Berman writes that Sayyid Qutb’s “deepest quarrel was not with America’s failure to uphold its principles. His quarrel was with the principles.”
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Liberal hawks cool down.
The odds were always long — but that’s because our party isn’t in power, doesn’t have a plan, and is embattled by silly and fractious demands farther left.
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Wieseltier vs. Menand.
Tillich’s “Protestant principle” protests against idols in the name of the “God beyond God”; Menand protests against commitment itself.
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Have liberals been duped?
“Having been played for fools, most liberal hawks will retreat to a deep skepticism of American power. They will end up on the decent, feckless left.”
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‘Liberalism lies dying.’
The British Labour Party is deeply divided over Iraq — and the feeling of insecurity threatens to obscure liberal successes.
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Decisions.
President Bush’s case for war is different than the one that “reluctant hawks” like the liberals listed here have endorsed.
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.
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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.