Sublime

It was one of these weird things. I was in school my freshman year and I was just sitting around and telling stories and people were laughing. Someone was like, oh man, you should try to do standup. And then a week later, the same thing happened. And it was like one of these weird, Ooh, maybe the universe is saying something. And then I went to

Did it fail us or did we fail it? For most of my life, when I called myself a liberal, I meant basically someone who believed in universal health care and the right to form a union and racial equality, and social security.

But in her book, The Lost History of Liberalism, Helena Rosenblatt shows that in its oldest forms, liberalism was