Abstract

Two political “dispensations” dominated American politics in the post-war period: FDR's social welfare liberalism and Ronald Reagan's anti-government libertarianism. The Reagan dispensation is over but liberals have been unable to offer a new, imaginative and hopeful vision of our common future, in large part due to its commitment to movement politics and focus on coalitions of discrete identity groups. Developments in social media and education have reinforced this approach. This paper argues for a turn toward a more civic liberalism that would emphasize our shared duties as citizens in building a vision of the future, without ignoring the concrete claims of identity groups.

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