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The Obsolescence of Utopia

The subtitle of Jacoby's book, "Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy," aptly captures the way the present American political situation is usually perceived. Unlike conventional wisdom that celebrates this state of affairs as the achievement of genuine consensus, Jacoby bemoans it as an indication of general confusion: the result of the exhaustion of radical alternatives and a collapse of those utopian visions that generate political projects. The evidence seems compelling. Any cursory survey of the kind of issues being articulated by the various presidential candidates positioning themselves for the November 2000 elections supports this diagnosis. In a country...