The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
Eric Schliesser is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He blogs regularly at digressionsimpressions.substack.com. He is a Visiting Faculty Fellow at The Murphy Institute of Tulane University for 2025-2026.
From the beginning, liberals have felt the need to promote the development and flourishing of human nature in light of the good even if they disagreed about what it might be.
