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Liberalism Against Itself
Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Samuel Moyn
2023
Yale University Press
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Toward a Christian Postliberal Left
A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.
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Commonweal
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Book Review
The Book of Liberal Maladies
On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.
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John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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January 18, 2024
Forum
Cold War Liberalism Is Still With Us. Is That a Good Thing?
A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.
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Jan-Werner Müller
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Nicolas Guilhot
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Penny Marie von Eschen
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Vaughn Rasberry
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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October 2, 2023
Book Review
Two Cheers for the Cold War Liberals
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.
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Joseph Stieb
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War on the Rocks
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September 15, 2023
Book Review
Dangers and Enemies Everywhere
How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.
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George Scialabba
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Democracy Journal
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September 14, 2023
Q&A
Is Liberalism a Politics of Fear?
A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.
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Samuel Moyn
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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The Nation
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September 11, 2023
Book Review
Samuel Moyn Can’t Stop Blaming Trumpism on Liberals
"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.
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Jonathan Chait
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Intelligencer
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September 7, 2023
Book Review
Cold War Liberalism Returns
A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.
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Patrick Iber
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Dissent
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September 5, 2023
Book Excerpt
Liberalism in Mourning
Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
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Samuel Moyn
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Boston Review
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August 30, 2023
Book Review
Memo to Liberals: The Cold War is Over
In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.
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Becca Rothfeld
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Washington Post
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August 11, 2023