"America has always done better, liberals have always done better, when we are all focused on opportunity and mobility, not inequality, on individual and family aspiration, not class-consciousness". Mr Brooks is quite right that this sort of thing has a long history.
In the foreword, he wrote: "No one who has not experienced life on the wrong side of prison walls can understand this commitment, indeed a yearning, for a better, more liberal, more tolerant society in Pakistan.
It sometimes plays better in liberal, mostly white lakefront wards than in the city's other bases of black political power.
Miliband's pledge to raise the minimum wage to £8 an hour also was supported by the majority of the public and played even better with Liberal Democrat voters (80.1%) than Labour (78.6%).
The courts will be busy for years.Elsewhere the news was better for liberals.
He also suggested that the Colombia and Panama trade pacts would fare no better with liberals; Mr. Brown said all three agreements would cost Americans jobs.
In recent years, these groups have become a counterweight to the larger and better-financed liberal environmental organizations, like the Sierra Club, that opposed Ms. Norton's nomination.
Another aspect of human nature that conservatives understand better than liberals, according to Haidt, is parochial altruism, the inclination to care more about members of your group — particularly those who have made sacrifices for it —than about outsiders.
The opinion of some Westchesterites, many of whom have never lived outside New York State, is that their educational system is superior, a reflection of the better-educated, liberal Northeastern attitude toward schools.
