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Document Excerpt A numerous and powerful group of reformers has been collecting whose whole political policy and action is based on the conviction that the “common people” have not been getting the Square Deal to which they are entitled under the American system…. A considerable proportion of the American people is beginning to exhibit economic and political, as well as personal discontent….
Editor’s note: this interview dates from well before the election of Donald Trump In a post on your website, you said there was “moral rot” in America. And you say: “It’s located in the public behaviour of people who control our economy and are turning our democracy into a financial slush pump.” Can you expand on this?
Franklin Foer edited The New Republic from 2006 to 2010. He has also written for The Atlantic and The New York Times. A graduate of Columbia University, he’s author of the bestselling book How Soccer Explains the World. His next book is about the birth of American liberalism Franklin Foer edited The New Republic from 2006 to 2010. He has also written for The Atlantic and The New York Times. A graduate of Columbia University, he’s author of the bestselling book How Soccer Explains the World.
Herbert Croly (1869-1930) was The New Republic’s first-ever editor and one of the founders of modern liberalism. He was, however, an unlikely candidate for the task, a man so stricken with anxiety and depression he never graduated from college.
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