Scratch & Win is so good!!

Thank you so much for coming and for this wonderful recap!

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Also: on Th, 2/20 @7PM ET @bostonreview.bsky.social is hosting a free, virtual convo on the book with us + Dylan Gottlieb @pastpunditry.bsky.social and @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Join us! ushttps://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/the-limits-of-professional-class-liberalism (11/10)

We hope you find the essays as stimulating and clarifying as we do, especially as we all undertake the hard work of remaking American politics. You can find the book in the usual places, but if you purchase directly from the press at the link above, you can receive 30% (use the code UCPNEW). (10/10

Across these chapters, we see the origins of a liberalism that has become overwhelmingly concerned with procedural questions, mistrustful of mass democracy, and inclined toward the containment rather than the pursuit of political struggle. (9/10)

LGBTQ rights activists, the media, political consultants, Democratic Party elites, and through contestations over disability, welfare, and refugee rights -- as well as in the historical profession itself. (8/10)

Adam Goodman, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social. Their brilliant essays trace these historical developments across a range of topics and themes: philanthropies, government contractors, public interest lawyers, housing activists, Black liberals and neoliberals, (7/10)

Lily and I learned so much from our wonderful authors: @lilacb.bsky.social @smacekura.bsky.social @allofmilov.bsky.social Reuel Schiller, Marisa Chappell, @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Alex Beasley, Dylan Gottlieb, Tim Shenk, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, @kmtani.bsky.social @maidino.bsky.social (6/10)

In other words, today’s liberals are supremely competent when it comes to the fiscal, legal, and regulatory challenges of modern governance. But they lack a compelling vision of society worth fighting for. (5/10)

and economists who staff public interest law firms, NGOs, and government agencies.

Liberalism today is technically masterful but its social and political vision has steadily narrowed — and is now decidedly adrift. (4/10)

Where unions or diverse local party organizations were once significant contributors to the liberal coalition, its institutional expression has become dominated by philanthropic elites, the corporate media, think tanks and consultancies, universities, and by the lawyers, policy wonks, (3/10)