The Retro Style in Liberal Politics: A Review of Mark Lilla's ,The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics'
Abstract
Columbia University’s Mark Lilla is an erudite and engaging historian of ideas, concentrating on political thought from the 18th century to the 20th. In his latest book „The Once and Future Liberal“, Lilla attacks the current style of liberal politics, exemplified by professors, intellectuals and activists in social movements, as contemptuous of real-world electoral politics and of ordinary Americans.
