My copy of the latest issue of The Point arrived in the mail. Excited to dive in. I enjoyed Jon Baskin’s editorial introduction, especially the kicker:

The resulting essays [in the issue] question some of the baseline assumptions of contemporary leftism and liberalism, as Trilling implored the true friends of left-liberalism to do in his own time, while at the same time attempting to excavate their intellectual traditions for more promising—and, not unimportantly, more inspiring—paths forward. Our contention being that even if one agrees with [Ezra] Klein that it is not the job of the liberal intellectual to tell the citizens of 2050 (or 2026) where they should drive their electric cars, there remain few tasks more urgent today—for the friends and the foes of liberalism alike—than to demonstrate that there remain places worth going.