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The case for liberalism in an age of extremism, or, why I left the left and can't join the right, Alan Dershowitz

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The case for liberalism in an age of extremism

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Alan Dershowitz

or, why I left the left and can't join the right

In The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-makes a classical liberal argument for centrist government in the US, as the Founding Fathers and the Constitution intended. lan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his consistent classical liberalism in the face of a rapidly polarizing political landscape and for his steadfast support of centrist governance over either "progressive" or reactionary radicalism. The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism is a defense of liberalism and its renewed relevance today. It makes the case for classic liberal values and programs over radical-left and reactionary right-wing agendas, and for centrism over extremism in general, showing why the United States has thrived throughout history because of its enduringly centrist base. It seeks to restore contemporary liberalism to its important place in the American political landscape, and attempts to persuade centrists from both the left and right-who may today call themselves progressives or moderate conservatives-that they, too, belong in the big tent of centrist liberalism

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Why I left the left and can't join the right