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Writing in 1950, Lionel Trilling lamented that New Deal liberalism so dominated American political thought. Conservatism, he observed, offered only “irritable mental gestures” rather than sustained rigorous thought. Liberalism risked becoming “stale, habitual and inert.” To avoid this condition liberals would need to be their own critics.1
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Kelley, J.L. (1997). The Revitalization of Market Liberalism. In: Bringing the Market Back In. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372702_2
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