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The fight for liberalism
Katznelson, Ira | July 14, 1997 issue

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The article presents the author's comments on the fight for liberalism in the U.S. The author says that the left lacks an effective public philosophy. Moreover, in the absence of a coherent and appealing public philosophy, post-New Deal Democratic Party liberalism has taken on an identity as a collection of failed or badly implemented public policies only vaguely connected to one another, undisciplined by a guiding purpose. Geared to one issue at a time, this kind of politics solicits the attention of narrow interest groups and high-money rollers, polluting politics, distorting spending priorities, warping the civic sphere and delegitimizing the party system and the political process.

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LIBERALISM; POLICY sciences; RIGHT & left (Political science); POLITICS, Practical; SOCIAL sciences -- Philosophy; UNITED States
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