A Reply to Kevin Mattson
By failing to assemble a coalitional politics that went beyond the ideology and logic of security, Cold War liberals became unwitting participants in liberalism’s decline.
By failing to assemble a coalitional politics that went beyond the ideology and logic of security, Cold War liberals became unwitting participants in liberalism’s decline.
To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War.