A Thousand Small Sanities

Book • 2019
In *A Thousand Small Sanities*, Adam Gopnik presents a stirring defense of liberalism against contemporary dogmatisms.

He argues that liberalism is not merely centrism or free markets, but a pursuit of radical change through humane measures.

Gopnik traces liberalism from Montaigne to the civil rights movement, highlighting its role in human history and its importance in an age of autocracy.

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