... in a liberal polity, when ties of family, religion, and nationality dissolve, there is really not much left beyond the marketplace, with its conception of the good life as a life of consumption. But ...
...omous framework and the one-sided models of politics that flow from it. On the dichotomous model we are left with a rather varied set of theoretical choices: the defense of civil society against the s...
...f the Second World War. This leads me paradoxically to say, or to hope, that the possibilities for the left are actually greater now, or at least more open now, in the United States than they may be ...
... implicit in the new Constitution--and, indeed, heralded by Publius and its other proponents. The first left citizens free to live their own lives and to cultivate the virtue (private and public) vita...
... are showing that the Constitution, being a living thing rather than a dead letter the Founding Fathers left behind, can be adapted to the changing challenges of the time. A discussion of...
..., in spite of heroic efforts of definition and redefinition, the old French Revolutionary categories of left and right are simply not very serviceable or useful anymore. In trying to think through our...
...ot; would spring up. Interestingly, one of the fundamental assumptions shared by both the right and the left during the period of the cold war was in fact a Rousseauian assumption that society makes u...
Is there a common idea of the "left " in Europe and the United States? And should this idea be a "communitarian" one? Or is this "just another label"--as many people (espe
... of national industrial policy. Now the defense budget is shrinking. But there is little prospect that, left to itself, the private economy will generate industries that can play the role that defense...
...oblems of the welfare state by stimulating economic growth does not work any more. The only alternative left to the dismantling of the welfare institutions and the lowering of standards of social just...
... the one that all of us have seen and lived through, and that is the period of Civil Rights and the new left --the '60s--as we say. The outcome of these reforms has been disappointing. American pol...
...d by these regimes. National sentiments is one example, and it is a particularly thorny problem for the left . The left , historically, never came adequately to grips with nationalism and was often con...
...estions not to answer them, because there is no answer. I raise them because they are problems that the left and the right must face today. ...
... by political scientists. Their attitudes do not fit the convenient ideological categories of right and left . Their behavior is not predictable on the basis of class, family background, or gender. The...
... Republic, and Yugoslavia has fallen apart. I now turn to the main issue at hand: the situation of the Left . The main task of the Left , just as of all democratic tendencies in the Eastern half of Eur...
...s of economic and social policy in individualized terms. These are not to be prescribed by politics but left to a large area of private, ostensibly apolitical decision. Alternatively, they do concede ...
If the project of the Left is to survive the discredit that the collapse of "actually existing socialism" has thrown over the very idea of socialism, it requires a new formulation. Eve
As the Berlin wall and the Gulf War underscored, the European Left is out of step with history. As long as Europe remains little more than an alibi for surrendering or converting to liberalism,
...this frame of reference I would like to make a few remarks. First of all, orphans of the enemy, we are left without a frame of reference that for the last fifty years or so helped us to understand in...
