"The imaginative locus of Gopnik's liberalism is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. It is the liberalism of the Enlightenment café, of the bourgeois-bohemian bedrooms of nineteenth-century political theorists"what you would get if you crossed John Stuart Mill's and George Eliot's sex lives with Jürgen Habermas's philosophy of rational communication." " The New Republic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM on May 8, 2019