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Left Adrift What Happened to Liberal Politics

Timothy Shenk

A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right—are now more likely to split along cultura...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Matt described the book as a helpful intervention into the current debate about Democrats, covering historical figures like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Tony Blair and Ehud Barak.

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Tim Schenck's book, Left Adrift, is a great sort of intervention into the, like, what's up with Democrats kind of debate, looking historically at Bill Clinton and, to an extent, Barack Obama, but also...

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Matt described the book as a helpful intervention into the current debate about Democrats, covering historical figures like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Tony Blair and Ehud Barak.

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Tim Schenck's book, Left Adrift, is a great sort of intervention into the, like, what's up with Democrats kind of debate, looking historically at Bill Clinton and, to an extent, Barack Obama, but also a lot of Tony Blair, Ehud Barak, sort of center-left figures.

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