Way of life Quote by Mark Lilla

“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

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks…

— Thomas Sowell

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

— Mort Sahl

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did…

— H. W. Brands

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

— George Will

“Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged--at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War, at gay…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Once Reagan was elected, the Republican strategy had two components. The first was to build from the bottom up, getting the party rooted so…

— Mark Lilla

“There can be no liberal politics without a sense of we—of what we are as citizens and what we owe each other. If liberals…

— Mark Lilla

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about social class,…

— Thomas Frank

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but…

— Rick Perlstein

“Thus, for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the day's overriding political challenge: it is to preserve and extend freedom.”

— Barry M. Goldwater