George Scialabba's Lessons in Solidarity

Reviewing a biography of Christopher Lasch in 2011, essayist George Scialabba noted that the "lib-eral complacency" long critiqued by his hero had become displaced by "liberal demoralization." Anxieties over government paralysis, economic crisis, and climate change were eroding the myths of unfettered individualism and unlimited growth that had so troubled Lasch—and Scialab-ba—since the 1970s.