And so, too, was the neo-conservative backlash, in which Ronald Reagan reduced liberalism to an unpleasant epithet, the "Lword." When Trilling published The Liberal Imagination it seemed reasonable, and even heroic, to defend humanistic values with a muscular liberalism.
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