the fundamental question of how to build power in a world of real, grounded clashes among your constituents. It happens through creating strong relationships of mutual respect between groups that might often have strong differences. And where those divisions are sufficiently deep that they might tear the coalition apart, it is often better to... See more

Liberality proposed a different way of relating across disagreement and division. It built toward liberalism’s great insight, what Edmund Fawcett, in his book “Liberalism: The Life of an Idea,” calls liberalism’s first guiding idea: “Conflict of interests and beliefs was, to the liberal mind, inescapable. If tamed and turned to competition in a... See more