Liberalism Against Itself

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

There are certainly good grounds to criticize Cold War liberalism. But Samuel Moyn's new book, like similar critiques, has a classic baby-bathwater problem.

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.