The Left Needs Ideas
The Left Needs Ideas
The profound malaise in the United States cannot be addressed, much less solved, by clever campaign strategies and appealing policy ideas alone.
How might American leftists convince our fellow citizens that we understand what has gone wrong in our country and have practical and appealing ideas for how to fix it? Answering this question should be at the hea...
The article presents a critical challenge to the American left: its failure to articulate a compelling, practical vision for working-class Americans. While the left excels at diagnosing systemic problems—oligarchy, corporate exploitation, neoliberalism—it struggles to translate these critiques into actionable solutions that resonate with broader public concerns. The right, by contrast, offers a reactionary but coherent narrative (e.g., Deneen’s "postliberal future"), which, despite its historica...