"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life," he wrote in Commentary in 1967.

The official political parties and specifically the liberal left have lost their seats in addition to their ideological influence with the voting population.

"Yes, it is the age-old irony of the liberal left: they practise oppression and call it equality."

It wouldn't surprise me to see in my lifetime the "liberal left" advocating more-or-less fascist policies.

I think Obama's days of being the great new hope for the liberal left are long gone.

The magazine's turn away from being an automatic organ of the liberal left has brought other changes, even in its advertising and revenues.

If we showed a video of santa locking up a Chanaka Harry, oh boy, what would the liberal left have to say about that?

Why don't we just wipe Britain from the history books and all the liberal left will have nothing to moan about.

They were a kind of liberal left who hoped that through their criticisms the ruling Party could be persuaded to rectify its errors.

Around Europe the liberal left is anxiously and urgently asking questions about how it can and should shape contemporary capitalism.