The Conflicted Soul of Modern Liberalism
A new book traces the history of an idea—and shows what American liberals have lost.
Warren Breckman is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy.
A new book traces the history of an idea—and shows what American liberals have lost.
The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.