Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times 0300266219, 9780300266214

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post By the mid

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Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
0300266219, 9780300266214

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The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at

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Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewis

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“Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare s

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In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey’s book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the

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In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended

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In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are tre

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Kekes concludes that liberalism cannot cope with the prevalence of evil, that it is vitiated by inconsistent commitments

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