In search of your next summer read? According to @RichardvReeves, you may want to pick up @adamgopnik's new book on modern-day liberalism: https://t.co/EujdCqq31f— Brookings Econ (@BrookingsEcon) June 15, 2019
In search of your next summer read? According to @RichardvReeves, you may want to pick up @adamgopnik's new book on modern-day liberalism: https://t.co/EujdCqq31f— Brookings Econ (@BrookingsEcon) June 15, 2019
It is funny but whenever I hear or see something about liberals, I'm reminded of Will McAvoy's comment on Network when he was asked why America is the greatest country on earth and he turns to Sharon and expresses his opinion about liberals. Sadly, conservatives have done a good job of portraying liberals negatively. Yet if you actually look at all of the positive social programs - ending slavery, reforming child labor laws, winning rights for women and civil rights for others, it has always been the liberals that have carried the torch. They have just done a poor job of marketing themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe McAvoy speech is quite something, and it does call out a certain sort of "liberal." But is it really so illiberal, or anti-liberal? I took it to be more a puncturing of nationalism and unmerited chauvinism, a reality-check which ought to appeal to honest observers across the spectrum. https://speakola.com/movie/jeff-daniels-sorkin-newsroom-2012
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
I agree, liberals have allowed themselves to be falsely maligned. They should embrace J.S. Mill, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, and the liberal/progressive tradition that so-called conservatives have so ignorantly misrepresented.