The New Liberal Order

In America, political majorities live or die at the intersection of two public yearnings: for freedom and for order. A century ago, in the Progressive Era, modern American liberalism was born, in historian Robert Wiebe's words, as a "search for order." America's giant industrial monopolies, the progressives believed, were turning capitalism into a jungle, a wild and lawless place where only the strong and savage survived. By the time Roosevelt took office ... Full Story »

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3.9
by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 14, 2008

Beinhart's sells his stability theory of American politics using historical narrative. It's a good read and a interesting way of thinking about American politics. He's careful to highlight the roadblocks for liberals, but his analysis of conservatism is a little empty.

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