[lit-ideas] Liberal America
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:16:45 +0100
Here's a link to an interesting article by Tony Judt.
'Bush's Useful Idiots: The Strange Death of Liberal America'
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n18/judt01_.html
Excerpt:
"We don't expect right-wingers to care very much about the health of a
republic, particularly when they are assiduously engaged in the unilateral
promotion of empire. And the ideological left, while occasionally adept at
analysing the shortcomings of a liberal republic, is typically not much
interested in defending it.
It is the liberals, then, who count. They are, as it might be, the canaries in
the sulphurous mineshaft of modern democracy."
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