How to Save Liberalism in the U.S. and Europe.

Pro-Brexit Conservatives win a landslide victory in the U.K. Donald Trump is laughed out of a NATO summit after French President Emmanuel Macron declared the organization "brain dead." Poland's far-right government attempts to purge its judiciary, while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban tightens his grip on the country's media. Russia funds radical, anti-Europe, right-wing parties and floods U.S. elections with fake news. Every month, it seems, brings new evidence that the Transatlantic Alliance that has kept the peace and promoted democracy for seven decades is slowly cracking up.

Last summer, the Washington Monthly published a proposal by editor Daniel Block to revitalize the alliance and reverse the slide toward authoritarianism with a truly progressive U.S.-EU trade deal ("Save Europe, Save Ourselves," July/August 2019). This new "Atlantic Alliance," Block argued, would cut tariffs between the United States and Europe in exchange for...