Mark Lilla’s dissection of identity politics in The Once and Future Liberal is incisive. He doesn’t spare the conservative movement or the Republican party in the least, but he at his sharpest in analyzing what he calls the “abdication” of liberalism and the Democratic party. Liberals, he argues, once had a vision for all of America and all Americans. Reagan brought an end to the dominance of Rooseveltian liberalism, but instead of renewing the liberal vision, liberals “lost themselves in… Read more












