Against Passion
James Meek: Passionate Politics, 30 November 2017
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
by Mark Lilla.
Harper, 160 pp., £19, August 2017,978 0 06 269743 1 Show More
by Mark Lilla.
Harper, 160 pp., £19, August 2017,
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
by Mark Lilla.
NYRB, 166 pp., £9.99, September 2016,978 1 59017 902 4 Show More
by Mark Lilla.
NYRB, 166 pp., £9.99, September 2016,
“... however briefly, to come up with a personal political philosophy, and act on it in the polling booth. But when, as in The Once and Future Liberal, Lilla moves onto the ground of practical politics, the voters’ philosophy, the voters’ beliefs and the voters’ passions must be taken into account, not just their ability to receive rational ideas ... ”