In a liberal democracy it won’t do for one party, even if it consists entirely of the most impeccably liberal “big L” Liberals, to remain continuously in charge. So liberal renewal demands a degree of consensus across parties, such as …

The best of the recent books excoriating the failures of liberalism end up arguing not that we should abandon liberalism, but rather that what we need is a better liberalism. The liberal values and institutions we defend with the first …