Explaining the strange death of American liberalism.

Gilbert and Sullivan got it partly right when they had the fellow in Iolanthe observe

That every bay and every girl, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative! I don't spend much time writing about the subject, and, in fact, am rather pleased when we produce an entire issue that has not even one appearance of either the L-word or the C-word. It's not that the distinction is unimportant, but it is chattered to death, and one sometimes wonders whether there is anything new to be said about it.

But from time to time something on the stack of review books catches my fancy, in this case H. W. Brands' The Strange Death o...

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