Obama, Brown, and the ‘Third Way’The Left loses its way by abandoning the “third way.” Left parties are in trouble in the Anglosphere. Here in America, Democrats are doing worse in the polls today than at any time in the last 50 years. In Britain, the Labour party is on the brink of finishing third, behind both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, in the election next Thursday. All of which raises the question: What happened to the “third way†center-left movement that once seemed to sweep all before it? Only a dozen years ago, in 1998, President Clinton enjoyed...