Sarah Thomas is a research associate for Libertarianism.org at the Cato Institute and a former Cato intern. She is interested in political theory and intellectual history.
Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s genealogy of liberalism, the vision of liberalism he offers is overly capacious, with inner tensions from accommodating positive liberty. Sunstein’s liberalism thus fails to drive a discernible political program.
