In the absence of a distinct program, liberals and leftists redouble their commitment to variegated fraternity

Continuous assault on the individual, which begins in childhood, leads not to volubility, but the reverse

the choice is not between a virulent racism and an anodyne diversity; and even if it were, criticism of the latter should not cease

These stories are placid homilies of consumer-spiritual stasis

He also examines the obverse trend in the literary marketplace, with authors increasingly expected to serve as their own “storytelling managers.”

Democratic power brokers bewailed the bald temerity of a Sanders campaign

Obama’s speeches spelled out a world in shining absolutes; that was his teleological endpoint

identification with Obama’s perceived wounds would become the leitmotif of the party’s politics

Liberal sachems all along the think tank world

a medium of passive mass entertainment with disturbing etiological roots