Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Draw Their Lineage From Distinct Political Traditions"

"The short answer is that political figures and thinkers are more than the sum of their assorted policy positions. They have distinct, historically grounded worldviews that, once revealed, can both give us a better handle on their core beliefs and predict how they might act in shifting circumstances."

At Jacobin, Shawn Gude compares Elizabeth Warren to Louis Brandeis and Bernie Sanders to Eugene Debs.

And Win McCormick at The New Republic contrasts Brandeis and Herbert Croly.

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