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(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 3, 2008 Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed
The American left is in the throes of an existential crisis. Some say it's a failure of nerve, others a loss of belief. It is the latter. Neoliberalism has sucked the oxygen out of the left by deflating the political sphere to the economic one. The left must articulate a new creed around three principles: