Otis L. Graham, Jr., in
as Floundered The Center Magazine (Mar.-Apr. 1981),
P.O. Box 4068, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103.
An automobile jerrybuilt with unmatched parts will break down sooner or later. Similar incongruities largely explain the decline of American liberalism, argues Graham, a University of North Carolina historian.
Nineteenth-century "liberals" were predominantly small business- men. Opposed to the encumbrances of mercantilism and resentful of the state's role, they talked...