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William J. Walsh is a writer based in Wisconsin.
Books
The Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
Amid a spate of volumes on liberalism’s future, our reviewer zeroes in on James Simpson’s Permanent Revolution, which reveals some surprises about those we assume fall within the rubric.