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Out On a Limb is a compendium of Sullivan’s essays over the last 30 years; according to our moderator Larry Platt, “taken together, they’re a testament to the power of one man’s ideas, and also a love letter to what has become so endangered of late, quaint notions like pluralism and liberal democracy.”

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Watch: Andrew Sullivan at Citizen Speaks

At a Citizen event last week, the author talked about his 30 years as one of the greatest defenders of liberal thought—and how, if we soldier on, we can still preserve free thinking in America

Watch: Andrew Sullivan at Citizen Speaks

At a Citizen event last week, the author talked about his 30 years as one of the greatest defenders of liberal thought—and how, if we soldier on, we can still preserve free thinking in America

Author, free-thinker and provocateur Andrew Sullivan is, often, alone—fired from New York magazine, slammed for his views on…just about everything, writing from a “small room in Washington, D.C.”, out on a limb (as it were) even when there is no one there to defend him. And that is exactly what makes him the American intellectual we need in our times. 

Sullivan’s new book, Out On a Limb, is a compendium of his essays over the last 30 years; taken together, they’re a testament to the power of one man’s ideas, and also a love letter to what has become so endangered of late, quaint notions like pluralism and liberal democracy.

As part of Citizen Speaks powered by Comcast NBCUniversal and Fitler Club, Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt spoke with Sullivan via Zoom last week about presidents (Obama and Trump); free speech (he still has it, thankfully); liberalism (at risk); the perils of Wokeness—and how we will emerge with our freedoms intact.

“I am relatively optimistic that if we soldier on and keep manifesting and practicing liberalism that we will slowly regain it,” Sullivan said. “It’s going to be a hard slog. But the only way to save liberal society is to enact it.”

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