Concern Quote by Mark Lilla

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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