The Middle of the Journey

On the Democratic Idea in America, by Irving Kristol (Harper, 149 pp., $5)

As everyone knows, the liberal consensus in American political thought has pretty well collapsed. Liberalism is still out there, of course, in the universities, the media, the bureaucratic structures, a corporeal presence not soon likely to depart. But the philosophic view which gave rise to all this worldly power, the pat coherence of an orthodoxy in full vigor, is a thing of the past. Liberal things have fallen apart; the vital center will not hold.

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On the Democratic Idea in America, by Irving Kristol (Harper, 149 pp., $5)

As everyone knows, the liberal consensus in American political thought has pretty well collapsed. Liberalism is still out there, of course, in the universities, the media, the bureaucratic structures, a corporeal presence not soon likely to depart. But the philosophic view which gave rise to all this worldly power, the pat coherence of an orthodoxy in full vigor, is a thing of the past. Liberal things have fallen apart; the vital center will not hold.