A THOUSAND SMALL SANITIES

Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.A Thousan d Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montai gne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor si mply ano...[Read more]