Wednesday, August 19, 2009

American liberalism in retreat

Leave it to the world's most liberal periodical to critique some of our most illiberal practices.

Illiberal politics: America's unjust sex laws

Sex laws: Unjust and ineffective

The fear that launched Hitler's career was that Germany had grown too soft, too weak, too liberal. It was a criticism from both the Left and the Right. Nazis rule was the result. We might reconsider our direction, at this point.