The Liberal Line

As we saw last week and the week before, at least two Liberal publicists have now switched to a new line on the state of our civil liberties, namely: Our liberties are safe, after all. Or, as this columnist permitted himself to rephrase it last week: We Liberals are winning — despite our recent statements to the contrary — on the big civil rights issues.

Last week’s column went on to say: it isn’t really civil liberties we find ourselves talking about these days, but the peculiar concept of civil liberties that the Liberals are out to put across. And it promised further discussion of that point, still with an eye on Professor John P. Roche’s current “State of Our Liberties” series in the New Republic.

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As we saw last week and the week before, at least two Liberal publicists have now switched to a new line on the state of our civil liberties, namely: Our liberties are safe, after all. Or, as this columnist permitted himself to rephrase it last week: We Liberals are winning — despite our recent statements to the contrary — on the big civil rights issues.

Last week’s column went on to say: it isn’t really civil liberties we find ourselves talking about these days, but the peculiar concept of civil liberties that the Liberals are out to put across. And it promised further discussion of that point, still with an eye on Professor John P. Roche’s current “State of Our Liberties” series in the New Republic.