The Dead Center Reflections On Liberalism And Democracy After The End Of History Luke Savage by Luke Savage 9781682193341, 9781682193334, 1682193330, 1682193349 instant download after payment.

Luke Savage’s stellar book The Dead Center is a critical examination of liberalism. Savage is a democratic socialist and long-time contributor to Jacobin, and his book mostly consists of essays on liberal politics that were released in that magazine over the past decade. Most of these are ruminations on Savage’s disappointment with liberal icons like Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Aaron Sorkin—whose magnanimous rhetoric about progress contrasts sharply with their lack of material ambition. Savage’s essays are uniformly funny and well written. Unfortunately, Savage fails to define which basic liberal principles he thinks are worth fighting for (even if many centrist liberal politicians fail to uphold them) but the book does provide an important reminder that, when the gap between liberalism’s promises and its achievements grows too wide, disappointment sets in, and illiberalism can flourish.