Paul Starr contends that while neither liberals nor conservatives have been able to claim lasting power, we have an advantage: real solutions:
In the article he wrote for the Prospect’s first issue, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. observed that many people believe politics is about power, while others think it is about image, and he granted there is some truth in both of those views. But in a democracy, he continued, politics is “above all about the search for remedy.”
