false 4918115 1 <p>A compelling, trenchant, and necessary defense of the liberal tradition that draws upon the ideas of its greatest thinkers to explain not only what the tradition actually is but also why it is still as relevant as ever, and how it can help us chart the course for a politics capable of moving modern society forward.<br><i><br>The Future of Liberalism </i>represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about American politics by one of our leading scholars (“one of liberalism’s last and most loyal sons [whose] criticism . . . is one of the glories of American democracy”—Leon Wieseltier). Alan Wolfe explains how the writings of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey, among others, helped shape the philosophy of liberalism: a capacious conception of human nature, a bedrock belief that people are more important than ideology, a respect for both individualism and its limits, a passion for social justice, and faith in reason and intellectual openness. And we see how liberalism might influence and illuminate contemporary debates on immigration, abortion, executive power, and free speech.<br><br>But, at the same time, Wolfe makes clear that before liberalism can be applied to today’s problems, it needs to be recovered, understood, and embraced—not just by Americans but by all modern people—as the most broadly beneficial way to live in our complex world. <i>The Future of Liberalism </i>is a powerfully persuasive step in that direction.</p> 4983687 3 2 2009 The Future of Liberalism total:13|5:1|4:9|3:3|2:0|1:0| 13 50 66 5 0 0 false false Thu Jun 18 21:12:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 21:12:28 -0700 2009 Slate: "Alan Wolfe is the sort of social theorist who would rather be plausible than provocative. Eschewing the lunacies of the left and the right--avoiding even their slighter sillinesses--he hews to a sensible, if unexciting, center. … as he argues himself in this engaging new book, The Fut...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 16 20:23:37 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 24 19:39:26 -0700 2009
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