Book Review: Peter Beinart's 'The Good Fight'
In 1948 Richard Hofstadter took the long-view of the American Political Tradition and deplored the “rudderless, and demoralized state of American liberalism.” He could have been speaking about today. Liberals are in a tizzy about their inability to develop a compelling vision that seizes hold of the popular imagination. Their failure to seize upon Bush’s political weakness has emphatically demonstrated their political confusion, and as a consequence, a number of commentators have begun offering up new ‘big ideas’ for liberalism to embrace. Of the various offerings, Peter Beinart’s recent effort, The Good Fight: Why Liberals – and Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, is easily the most interesting – and the most chilling. Read on...
2 Comments:
There is NOTHING on your articles page to do with the Beinart book review. His name does not even appear.
So we have no way to evaluate your review, which we found quite compelling in its introduction.
For ourselves, we will pass on 'The Good Fight,' having found Andrew J. Bacevich's takedown of it in The Nation (July 17/24) to be entirely convincing.
The primary fault? An "imaginative, if largely spurious, depiction of postwar history." In the outline given by Bacevich, it is difficult to see how valid policy recommendations can follow.
Still, we would like to read your review anyway. Perhaps you'll find a way to make it available.
Dear Reader,
Thank you for alerting us to the problem. It has been fixed.
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