Eric Alterman Explains Why Liberal Is A Good Word
Eric Alterman has written what he describes as a handbook for post-Bush America. It’s called Why We’re Liberals.
Do we liberals really need a handbook for these new times? Some of us do seem to need a hand out of the box of defining ourselves as anti-Bush, but Barack Obama’s campaign seems to be serving in that role rather handily.
Perhaps we need a travelogue for why we have become liberals, or how we have moved within the land of liberalism. For that travel, a field guide to the different varieties of liberal might be useful too.
I’ll stop with the liberal quibbling, though, and let Eric Alterman speak for himself in the video you see below. It’s of Alterman speaking about the ideas behind the book.
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