The liberal response to left-wing views, old and new, is, first, that economic injustice is self-evidently amendable within the liberal order, if we have the will to do it. Second, that while the new radical assault on liberalism suggests a passionate politics, it still doesn’t propose a practical politics—one that seems likely to win elections rather than impress sophomores at Sarah Lawrence. (That is said without disdain; I have subsidized a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence.) And finally—in a way that may seem more tediously abstract but actually is a day-to-day effect on our thinking—that the
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