December 2, 2004AN ARGUMENT FOR A NEW LIBERALISM. A Fighting Faith by Peter Beinart Post date 12.02.04 | Issue date 12.13.04 On January 4, 1947, 130 men and women met at Washington's Willard Hotel to save American liberalism. A few months earlier, in articles in The New Republic and elsewhere, the columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop had warned that "the liberal movement is now engaged in sowing the seeds of its own destruction." Liberals, they argued, "consistently avoided the great political reality of the present: the Soviet challenge to the West." Unless that changed, "In the spasm of terror which...
