The liberal project now: liberals need to remember their first principles, rebuild a majority, and connect to a new generation.(15 YEARS OF LIBERAL INTELLIGENCE)

LIBERALISM IS AT GREATER RISK NOW THAN AT ANY time in recent American history. The risk is of political marginality, even irrelevance. And the reason is not just a shift in partisan control of the federal government. There has been a radical change in the relationship of ideology and power in America. Only by renewing both the principled commitments to liberal ideals and the practical basis of liberal politics does liberalism have any chance of recovery.

Fifty years ago, the absence of ideological divisions was widely thought to be one of the distinguishing features of American ...