Small Group Quote by Jane Mayer

“But it was really the then-popular right-wing demagogue Glenn Beck who gave Republicans a taste of what was to come as the recession deepened.…

— Mark Lilla

“These guys, individually and collectively, created a new philanthropic form, which was movement philanthropy,” said Rob Stein, a progressive political strategist, speaking of the…

— Jane Mayer

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them

— Anonymous

“But it would be a mistake to assume that the liberal class was simply seduced by the Utopian promises of globalism. It was also…

— Chris Hedges

Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the…

— Bill Moyers

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

— Dwight Macdonald

“The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really were. In…

— Frank Schaeffer

“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards of courtesy…

— Thomas Frank

“stars of what I like to call the New New Left, a conglomerate of internet-age liberals who had managed to steal a share of…

— Jared Yates Sexton

The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today,…

— Barry Goldwater

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

“Furthermore, when conservatives attack the left, they now usually frame their arguments in the language of equality—for example, they often argue that affirmative action…

— George Hawley