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Berkowitz reviews Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America by Robert B. Reich.
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Politicizing Reason
Politicizing Reason By PETER BERKOWITZ ROBERT B. REICH. Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America. ALFRED A. KNOPF. 257 PAGES. $24.00
ROBERT REICH is the nearest American left-liberalism has come in this generation to producing a scholar-statesman. He is a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Yale Law School, an author of important works on the transformation of American economic life in the information age, a former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, and currently a University Professor at Brandeis University and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis's Heller Graduate School. As a scholar and statesman, and a privileged member of the intellectual and cultural elite, he might have been at pains to produce a measured, temperate volume - particularly one devoted to making the case for liberalism and entitled (no less) Reason. Yet his Reason actually bears a stunning resemblance to, of all things, Ann Coulter's most recent book, Treason (Crown Forum, 2003). Coulter, a notoriously ferocious...See the full content of this document
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