The Public Philosophy

The Public Philosophy offers as much a glimpse into the private philosophy of America's premier journalist of the twentieth century as it does a public philosophy. The basis of Lippmann's effort is "that there is a deep disorder in our society which comes not from the machinations of our enemies and from the adversaries of the human condition, but from within ourselves." He also provides a special sort of legacy to liberalism in its broadest sense. This work is a masterful defense of the public philosophy as a constitutional tradition, and can be easily read as such today.