FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR LIBERALS WHO WANT TO BE EFFECTIVE: PRIORITIZE

Mark Lilla, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (New York: Harper, 2017) ("I conclude with some lessons that can be drawn from the history and analysis I have offered." "The first three have to do with priorities: the priority of institutional over movement politics; the priority of democratic persuasion over aimless self-expression; and the priority of citizenship over group or personal identity. The fourth has to do with the urgent need for civic education in an increasingly individualistic and atomized nation." Id. at 104.).