I Think That A Good Left Is

Philosophy Makes Progress Not By Becoming More Rigorous But By Becoming More Imaginative.

We Are Equal Inhabitants Of A Paradise Of Individuals In Which Everybody Has The Right To Be Understood.

National Pride Is To Countries What Self-respect Is To Individuals: A Necessary Condition For Self-improvement.

[walt] Whitman And [humanist Educator John] Dewey Tried To Substitute Hope For Knowledge. They Wanted To Put Shared Utopian Dreams - Dreams Of An Ideally Decent And Civilized Society - In The Place Of Knowledge Of God's Will, Moral Law, The Laws Of History, Or The Facts Of Science.... As Long As We Have A Functioning Political Left, We Still Have A Chance To Achieve Our Country, To Make It The Country Of Whitman's And Dewey's Dreams.

Truthfulness Under Oath Is, By Now, A Matter Of Our Civic Religion, Our Relation To Our Fellow Citizens Rather Than Our Relation To A Nonhuman Power.