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What's left? How Liberals lost their Way
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Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit and despair. When, at the age of 13 he found out that his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted conservative, he nearly fell off his chair. 'To be good, you had to be on the Left'.
Today he is no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Irak, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals stanbding on their heads apologising for militant Islam. It is easy to know what the Left is fighting against -the evils of Bush and the corporation- but What, and more to the point Who are they fighting for?
As he tours the follies of the Left, Nick Cohen asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal in this confused and topsy-turvy time. With the angry satire of Swift, Nick Cohen reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity that unied the movement against fascism and asks: What's left?
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