“This is a classic ploy familiar to revolutionary leaders throughout history: the failure of the revolution proves the need to radicalize it.… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Liberal political education now takes place, if it takes place at all, on campuses that are largely detached socially and geographically from… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson is this: that for two generations America has been without a political vision of its destiny. There is… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Democratic politics is about persuasion, not self-expression. I’m here, I’m queer will never provoke more than a pat on the head or… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The politics of identity is nothing new, certainly on the American right. What was astonishing during the Reagan Dispensation was the development… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“[R]esitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking. And anti-Trumpism is not a politics. My worry is that liberals will get… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“There can be no liberal politics without a sense of we—of what we are as citizens and what we owe each other.… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“When Marxian socialism came to the United States after the 1848 revolutions, it brought along in its baggage this European suspicion of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Democratic politics is about persuasion, not self-expression. I’m here, I’m queer will never provoke more than a pat on the head or a roll… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The romantic wants to create a world where he or she will possess a fully integrated, unconflicted identity—where the answers to the questions Who… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“How we react to the presidency of Donald Trump will be the first test of our preparedness. His administration in its infancy is already… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The Republicans have successfully persuaded much of the public that they are the party of Joe Sixpack and Democrats are the party of Jessica… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she searches, in… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“You might have thought that, faced with a novel anti-political picture of the nation, liberals would have countered with an imaginative, hopeful vision of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by the intellectual… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common goals and… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts would have… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“Like any other political doctrine, liberalism makes assumptions about things human and divine, and these assumptions are, and ought to remain, open to disinterested… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.” — Mark Lilla Copy Share
“Identity is not the future of the left. It is not a force hostile to neoliberalism. Identity is Reaganism for lefties.” — Mark Lilla Copy Share
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something… — Mark Lilla Copy Share
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